The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Oil Investor Celebrates a Good Year With a Round of Large Gifts

By Caroline Preston

Dallas

Last year, Boone Pickens celebrated his 77th birthday, got married for the fourth time, and made more money than in his entire career with the oil company that made him famous.

The founder of Mesa Petroleum won celebrity in the 1980s by attempting to take over oil companies many times the size of his own....

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