When you’ve become incredibly rich and famous, you get to enjoy many luxuries in life that most will never get the chance to experience. You also become a target for those seeking to take advantage of you. When you’re a Hollywood A-lister or a multi-billionaire, you have to give up some of your freedoms that you used to have to remain safe as there are some pretty crazy people out there. Now you have to be accompanied by bodyguards where ever you go, for example. We’ve heard the stories of stalkers breaking into celebrities homes and stealing their belongings. Some famous and wealthy individuals take security extremely seriously, and here we take a look at a list of 10 rich and famous people who spend it big on security.
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10. Michael Dell
Michael Dell is the founder and current CEO of Dell Inc., and he likes to spend a lot of money to ensure that he and his family are safe at all times. He is personally an extremely important and key individual to Dell and is worth around $19 billion dollars alone. Those two facts make Michael Dell a target, which is why Dell spends around $2.7 million dollars per year on security to ensure that Michael and his family are safe at all times.
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9. Leslie Wexner
Leslie Wexner is the chairman and CEO of L Brands which is a fashion retailer that’s based in Columbus, Ohio. They own a range of different brands that include Bath and Body Works and Victoria’s Secret, and they see billion of dollars in revenue each year. Wexner is worth a few billions himself, and he also spends a lot of money on security. It’s been reported that he spends $1.25 million dollars on security each year.
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8. 50 Cent
American rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is a man that has personally been shot nine times and has lived to tell the tale. Naturally someone like that doesn’t mess around when it comes to security, and he certainly likes to spend a lot to ensure that he’s protected. He apparently spends around $9,000 dollars every month for his personal security detail according to recent reports that have surfaced.
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7. Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and is yet another wealthy individual that spends a lot when it comes to personal security. Amazon is really in a league of their own, and since he’s pretty important to them, he’s made a lot of money over the years. How much you ask? Well he’s worth around $50 billion or so, and people with that kind of money need the best security guards around. He spends around $1.2 million dollars alone each year to ensure that he’s safe at all times.
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6. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie also don’t screw around with security. They are some of the most famous celebrities out there, and since they have six children, they take extreme cautions when it comes to keeping them safe. Apparently they use fingerprint scanning locks at their homes and hire ex-military for their personal bodyguards. Additionally they also have a personal cybersecurity team that actively protects and monitors their children’s online presence.
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5. Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison is a co-founder, executive chairman, and the CTO for the Oracle Corporation, a massive computer and technology company that operates across the world. According to Forbes he’s worth around $46.5 billion dollars which makes him the third richest person in the world. Since he’s so absurdly wealthy, he has to spend a lot of money on security. Around $1.7 million dollars to be exact. That money is in the form of personal bodyguards, armored cars, and other security expenses. While that’s a lot of money to spend to stay safe, it’s just a drop in the bucket for him.
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4. Jay-Z and Beyoncé
As some of the wealthiest individuals currently in the music industry, Jay-Z and Beyoncé have plenty of reasons to stay safe. When you’re extremely popular like they are, who knows what some crazy fans will do. They have hired a personal security detail that guards their home at all times, they have a few armored cars, and are always accompanied by bodyguards when they go out in public.
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3. Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz is a multi-billionaire and the chairman and CEO of Starbucks. Starbucks has often been criticized by some pretty radical and outspoken activists, and Howard would be their biggest target. He pays a lot of his own money to ensure that his home is nearly a compound, but then on top of that Starbucks spends over $680,000 dollars each year to ensure their CEO is safe at all times.
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2. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Kanye and Kim are another power couple who can afford to spend a lot of money on security. They are some of the most famous celebrities in the world, but in addition to that, it’s safe to say that Kanye has angered a large amount of people over the years, to say the least. It’s been reported that the spend a few million dollars each year on personal bodyguards and armored cars to stay safe at all times.
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1. Bill Gates
When you’re known pretty much throughout the world as the one man that has more money than everyone that’s alive, you have a lot of things to protect. Bill Gates has around $77.8 billion dollars to his name, so he is naturally a high-profile target for criminals. He’s always escorted by a team of private bodyguards and his multi-million dollar home in Washington is essentially Fort Knox, especially when you consider what he has on the inside, like some original manuscripts written by Leonardo da Vinci, for example.
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