Al-Waleed bin Talal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Saudi Arabian businessman, investor and royal

Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1955

Place of Birth: Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia

Profession: entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist

Nationality: Lebanon, Saudi Arabia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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About Al-Waleed bin Talal

  • Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud (Arabic: ?????? ?? ???? ?? ????????? ?? ?????, born 7 March 1955) is a Saudi Arabian businessman, investor and a member of the Saudi royal family.
  • He was listed on Time magazine's Time 100, an annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world, in 2008.
  • Al-Waleed is a grandson of Ibn Saud, the first Saudi Arabian king, a nephew of all Saudi Arabian kings since, and a grandson of Riad Al Solh (Lebanon's first prime minister). He is the founder, chief executive officer and 95 percent owner of the Kingdom Holding Company, a Forbes Global 2000 company with investments in companies in the financial services, tourism and hospitality, mass media, entertainment, retail, agriculture, petrochemicals, aviation, technology and real-estate sectors.
  • In 2013, the company had a market capitalization of over $18 billion.
  • Al-Waleed is Citigroup's largest individual shareholder, the second-largest voting shareholder in 21st Century Fox, a minor shareholder in Zaveriwala Holdings LLC and owns Paris' Four Seasons Hotel George V and part of the Plaza Hotel.
  • Time has called him the "Arabian Warren Buffett".
  • In November 2017 Forbes listed Al-Waleed as the 45th-richest man in the world, with an estimated net worth of $18.7 billion.On 4 November 2017 he and other prominent Saudis (including fellow billionaires Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim and Saleh Abdullah Kamel) were arrested in Saudi Arabia, in a purge that the Saudi government characterized as an anti-corruption drive.
  • The allegations against Prince Al-Waleed include money laundering, bribery, and extorting officials.
  • Some of the detainees have been in the Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh since then.
  • Al-Waleed was released from detention on 27 January 2018, following a financial settlement of some kind, after nearly three months in detention.
  • In March 2018 he was dropped from the World's Billionaires list due to lack of current information.

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