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Billion-dollar bloodlines: America's 200 richest families

List of America's 200 richest families

Published: Jul 31, 2015 06:21:37 AM IST
Updated: Jul 31, 2015 08:30:06 AM IST

Forget that old saying that fortunes die by the third generation. Forbes’s List Of America’s 200 Richest Families (minimum net worth: $1.2 billion) shows many with roots going back to the 19th century. Among 33  newcomers: the Sacklers, who got rich off Oxycontin, and the Greenbergs, who created Skechers.

Full list of America's 200 richest families

(This story appears in the 07 August, 2015 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)

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