John Hyatt
@John__Hyatt
Staff Writer @Forbes covering billionaires. Follow me at @johnhyatt.bsky.social Tips: [email protected]
New @Forbes: Inside The New Trumpiverse Here are the 13 billionaires, business leaders and entertainers who have Donald Trump's ear -- and are poised to shape his second presidential administration. go.forbes.com/c/u722
There's a lot of speculation on how Jeffrey Epstein got so wealthy. But @John__Hyatt and I dug into court filings, financial records and investigations and what's clear is that it's largely down to two billionaire clients and tax breaks. Read @forbes: forbes.com/sites/giacomot…
For all the speculation surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, there's a lot we already know about how he got so rich: Two billionaire patrons and a tax scheme. @giacomotognini & I break down the numbers on @Forbes 👇 forbes.com/sites/giacomot…
Before his death in 2019, the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein had a property empire stretching from Paris to New Mexico where he committed many of his alleged crimes. They've all since been sold. Read what happened @Forbes: forbes.com/sites/giacomot…
New on @forbes: On the same day Elon Musk's chatbot Grok was calling itself MechaHitler, it was telling anyone who'd listen that Epstein didn’t kill himself and was murdered by elites. Here's why Grok went full conspiracy theory mode on Epstein. forbes.com/sites/johnhyat…
Ferrero's $3.1 billion deal for WK Kellogg is the latest in a 10-year, $13 billion deal-making spree (inc. 9 deals in the US) by the firm's billionaire executive chairman, Giovanni Ferrero, in his bid to make the Italian brand a global powerhouse. @Forbes: forbes.com/sites/giacomot…
New post: MAGA energy policy means raising electricity prices to own the libs Sacrificing material prosperity for post-material politics used to be what I thought the far right called "woke." But this is exactly what the Big Beautiful Bill does on energy policy. It singles out…
Crypto now accounts for more than half of Donald Trump's net worth. New story published this morning. forbes.com/sites/danalexa…
I uncovered a document that suggests Donald Trump secretly sold a stake in one of his crypto companies around the time of the inauguration. Full story below. forbes.com/sites/danalexa…
Meet America's first and only billionaire female venture capitalist. Another great story by @_pheebini, who is always doing interesting reporting at the intersection of wealth and tech. forbes.com/sites/phoebeli…
NEW: Elon Musk was humiliated by Jared Isaacman's ouster — and the rest is history. nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/…
Elon Musk Is $170 Billion Richer Since Endorsing Trump on.forbes.com/6012NI6u6 (Photo: Getty Images)
More details about the deal between @OpenAI and #AI hardware startup io + legendary $AAPL designer Jony Ive's career and net worth in my latest, with @DurotMatthew for @Forbes: forbes.com/sites/phoebeli…
New from the great @_pheebini and me @Forbes: The man who designed the iPhone is about to join the billionaire ranks. forbes.com/sites/phoebeli…
New from me @Forbes -- you don't have to start a company or grow up wealthy to become a billionaire. Meet America's 48 non-founder billionaire executives. forbes.com/sites/mattduro…
NEW: For Bloomberg Businessweek, I profiled Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in his transition from a lab-bound academic to running a $61 billion startup that's trying to win the AI race without losing its soul. Guest link: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
1/ In his second term, Donald Trump is still pushing forward with new deals all over the world. No one has more of them than Yousef Al Shelash, the chairman and cofounder of Saudi real estate developer Dar Al Arkan. Read here at @Forbes: forbes.com/sites/giacomot…
Scoop: Saudi firm Kingdom Holding Co. helped refinance debt for Elon Musk's social media company X two weeks before his Musk's visit to Riyadh with Trump. More details on Musk's dealmaking with Gulf funds in my new piece @Forbes 👇 forbes.com/sites/johnhyat…
New for @Forbes: Igor Tulchinsky made a fortune by outwitting human traders. Now he’s banking on large language models to make his hedge fund even smarter. forbes.com/sites/johnhyat…
NEW: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, we made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So @js_kaplan and I got on a plane to Banjul. 1/