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Billion-dollar bloodlines: America's 200 richest families

List of America's 200 richest families

Published: Jul 31, 2015 06:21:37 AM IST

Forget that old saying that fortunes die by the third generation. Forbes’s List Of America’s 200 Richest Families (minimum net worth: $1.2 billion) shows many with roots going back to the 19th century. Among 33  newcomers: the Sacklers, who got rich off Oxycontin, and the Greenbergs, who created Skechers.

Full list of America's 200 richest families

(This story appears in the 30 November, -0001 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)

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