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Message: <blockquote data-quote="leolanka" data-source="post: 11216683" data-attributes="member: 363557">Everyone knew late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was rich—he had a gun made of gold! But he might have been even richer than anyone thought—like, net-worth-of-$200-billion rich, making him the richest person on the planet. Gaddafi was the .0000001%!"Senior Libyan officials" tell the Los Angeles Times that between investments, real estate, and bank accounts, Gaddafi had about $200 billion in assets, more than twice as much as most people thought and some $125 billion more than Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/carlos-slim-helu/" target="_blank">whom Forbes estimates to be the world's wealthiest person</a>. Investigators had found about $67 billion Europe and America, and expected that he had "perhaps another $30 billion elsewhere in the world"; as it turns out (assuming the new estimates are correct) he was sending "tens of billions more abroad over the years," and was apparently a decent investor.<a href="http://gawker.com/5852384/muammar-gaddafi-might-have-been-the-richest-person-in-the-world" target="_blank">http://gawker.com/5852384/muammar-gaddafi-might-have-been-the-richest-person-in-the-world</a></blockquote>

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