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From The Sunday Times
April 27, 2008

Bernie and Slavica Ecclestone

Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone and his wife Slavica arrive for the Laureus World Sports Awards

RESULTS FOR 2008
Ranking: 24
Worth: £2,400m
Source of wealth: Motor racing

Ecclestone, 77, has added another sporting interest to Formula One by taking over Championship football club Queens Park Rangers with Renault team boss Flavio Briatore (qv). He is chief executive of Alpha Prema, which owns F1, and has made his fortune from television rights and spin-offs. He netted £1.9 billion in 1999 from a bond issue and the sale of 75% of the business a year later. That sum was given over to Jersey-based trusts controlled by his Croatian wife Slavica, 49. Ecclestone is a big donor to charity, giving away about £50m a year , and his assets include a yacht, a Falcon jet and a hotel in Gstaad.

RESULTS FOR 2007
Ranking: 20
Worth: £2,250m
Source of wealth: Motor racing

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