Jazz Age tycoons
The 1920s was a decade like no other: an era of jazz music, flappers, new-found economic prosperity and emerging technologies, immortalised by author F. Scott Fitzgerald in the pages of the novel The Great Gatsby. Yet outside of popular literature, there were many real-life tycoons who amassed enormous wealth during the so-called Roaring 20s. Using Forbes’ 1918 Rich List, here are the 17 richest men and women of the era – who’d all be billionaires in today’s money.
9 August 2019