NET WORTH: $6.53 billon, down 2.5 percent

LAST YEAR: $6.7 billion

AGE: 97

RESIDENCE: Beverly Hills

SOURCE OF WEALTH: Investments, casinos

THE MONEY: The casino mogul still holds a hefty number of shares in MGM Resorts International. Shares of the company, which rose in value more than 80 percent last year, are down 12.5 percent over last 12 months.

BUZZ: As chief executive of Tracinda Corp., a private holding company, Kerkorian has kept a steady grip on his roughly 18 percent stake in MGM. A former boxer and fighter pilot, he started working when he was 9 as paperboy to help support family. It has been rumored that Kerkorian, an Armenian-American, is funding feature film about Armenian genocide. A judge last year shut down a request by his ex-wife, Lisa Bonder, who sought to increase her monthly child support from $100,000 to $565,000 on account of her daughter’s equestrian expenses. They were married for 28 days in 1999.