1. Gustavo Alfredo Jimenez de Cisneros y Rendiles was a Venezuelan businessman and Chairman of Grupo Cisneros.
20 Facts About Gustavo Cisneros
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The Gustavo Cisneros family was the wealthiest in South America on the 2006 Forbes ranking.
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Gustavo Cisneros graduated from Babson College in Massachusetts in 1968.
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Grupo Gustavo Cisneros is one of the largest privately held media entertainment organizations in the world.
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Gustavo Cisneros has been headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, since 2000.
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Gustavo Cisneros became President of Grupo Gustavo Cisneros when he was 25 years old.
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Gustavo Cisneros's wealth came from his holdings in media, entertainment, telecommunications, and consumer products companies.
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Grupo Gustavo Cisneros is one of the largest privately held Spanish-language media and entertainment companies.
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Until the buyout of Univision, the United States' leading Spanish-language television network, Gustavo Cisneros was one of the biggest shareholders of the company.
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Gustavo Cisneros owned Venevision International, which produces and distributes media and entertainment products throughout the world, and Venevision, a Venezuelan television network.
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Gustavo Cisneros was listed among the world's richest men, according to Forbes magazine, which estimated his fortune at US$1.1 billion in 2019.
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Gustavo Cisneros's wealth decreased from its 2014 secondary peak of US$ 4.4 billion, and its 2007 primary peak of US$ 6.0 billion.
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Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Gustavo Cisneros is a privately held Latin American art organization based in Venezuela and New York City.
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Patricia and Gustavo Cisneros began collecting Latin American abstraction after their marriage, in 1970.
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The Gustavo Cisneros Foundation was moving toward building a permanent institution in Caracas in the late 1990s until Hugo Chavez was elected president.
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Gustavo Cisneros was married to his wife, Patricia, from 1970 until his death.
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Gustavo Cisneros has been a significant MoMA benefactor since 1992, has been a trustee of the museum and has made substantial cash contributions to the museum's recent renovation.
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Gustavo Cisneros's name is on one of the institution's exhibition rooms.
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Gustavo Cisneros lived in the Dominican Republic beginning in the 1990s.
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On 29 December 2023, Gustavo Cisneros died in New York City, at the age of 78.