Jeff Greene | Entrepreneur, Real Estate Mogul, and
Former US Senate Candidate

Jeff Greene made the bulk of his fortune buying credit-default swaps on subprime mortgage-backed bonds in 2007. Since then he's been buying Florida real estate, particularly in Palm Beach. He also owns 3,500 apartments in Los Angeles and 3 buildings in downtown Manhattan that have jumped in value since he bought them over the past couple of years. Among his personal homes are the Palazzo Di Amore, which he bought out of foreclosure for $35 million and is now worth $100 million and waterfront homes in the Hamptons and Palm Beach. In 2010 he ran an unsuccessful campaign for one of Florida's U.S. Senate seats. Greene put himself through Johns Hopkins working as a busboy at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, teaching Hebrew School part-time and checking IDs outside a gym. He also traveled the country selling circus tickets to pay his way through Harvard Business School.