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Posted on 06/16/2015 8:57:50 AM PDT by Borges
Kirk Kerkorian, an eighth-grade dropout who traded his way to a $15-billion fortune and for a time was the richest person in Los Angeles, has died. He was 98.
Kerkorian’s death was confirmed Tuesday by Anthony Mandekic, the CEO of Kerkorian’s company, Tracinda Corp. Kerkorian died Monday evening at his home in Beverly Hills.
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It happens...
Ever notice how these billionaires always live to like 197? Weird.
Do you really think that peasants like us have access to the same medicine and treatments that are afforded to the super wealthy, kings & queens, dictators, ruling elites and others of that ilk? LOL Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother lived to be 102. Coincidence?
Uncle Kirkie!!! I forgot all about our close friendship when I was a child!! Ahem...
Wasn’t he a big amnesty opponent, or am I thinking of someone else?
He obviously wasn't joking (though I am). lol
Good point!
RIP.
I am sure he knew more with an 8th grade education than most High School or College graduates.
Didn’t he single-handedly destroy MGM?
He bought it and sold the remains to the highest bidder. A lot of great studio era artifacts were lost because of that.
#11 Yes. If it wasn’t for Debbie Reynolds buying many movie items from the MGM auction like the ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz, much of Hollywoods history would have been lost.
He bought and sold MGM three different times, always for a profit.
MGM was responsible for all of their own problems, Kerkorian did cause them.
Kerkorian was a true Capitalist and someone to be admired, if he had run for President I would have voted for him, not a blowhard like Trump.
Kerkorian had daring, nerve, ideas,and brains. Just the kind of guy needed to be president.
He bought and sold MGM three different times, always for a profit.
MGM was responsible for all of their own problems, Kerkorian did not cause them.
Kerkorian was a true Capitalist and someone to be admired, if he had run for President I would have voted for him, not a blowhard like Trump.
Kerkorian had daring, nerve, ideas,and brains. Just the kind of guy needed to be president.
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You realize without Kirk selling MGM film library there wouldn’t be Turner classic movie channel RIGHT thanks to debt that Ted Fonda got from MGM he had sell it back he made deal with Kirk with movies that how TCM came on the air
Yeah but MGM was in debt way before he took over the studio
MGM you think of is long gone they think beginning of the end was Iriving Thaldberg Shearer death back in 1930s
Just found the will he wrote naming me an heir. OK, so it’s in crayon, - he was in a hurry.
My dad one of his first jobs was at mom he had wonderful stories also he and his buddies harassed the lolly pop guild
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