Billionaires Who Died In 2023

The musicianJimmy Buffett might not be the first person you'd think of when asked to name a billionaire, and he only managed to claim that title months before he died. In April of 2023, Forbesdeclared that Buffett was worth $1 billion. What started out as laid-back fame from his1977 song "Margaritaville" over the years ballooned

The musician Jimmy Buffett might not be the first person you'd think of when asked to name a billionaire, and he only managed to claim that title months before he died. In April of 2023, Forbes declared that Buffett was worth $1 billion. What started out as laid-back fame from his 1977 song "Margaritaville" over the years ballooned into Margaritaville Holdings, which opened its first Margaritaville Cafe in Key West, Florida, in 1985. But his fans, who call themselves "parrotheads," couldn't get enough, and Buffett's company branched out into some very unexpected areas, including pickleball and home decor.

These days, you can retire to a whole community of parrotheads if you so choose. But despite owning these locations, called Latitude Margaritaville, even Buffett didn't fully understand why his fans would want to, telling The New Yorker in 2022, "Who knew people wanted to live in Margaritaville? I thought for a while it was a myth." The reporter found residents who moved there due to their love of Buffett, of course, but many come for the sense of community. The latter category includes self-declared non-fan Phil Murphy, who told the outlet, "I had a brother, Dave, who died on July 11, 1988. He was 48. Congenital heart disease. ... He was a Jimmy Buffett fan. My mother wrote to Jimmy. To thank him for the music. Jimmy wrote her back. He wrote her back!" 

After being hospitalized earlier in the year, Buffett died on September 1, 2023, aged 76.

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qL7Up56eZpOkunB9kmxucHFpZK%2BquMuipqeZmaeytHnWoaZmnJmasW5%2Bj2tqaA%3D%3D

 Share!