Wealthiest Angelenos: 23, David Murdock

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NET WORTH: $3.3 billion, up 6.5 percent

LAST YEAR: $3.1 billion

AGE: 92

RESIDENCE: Los Angeles

SOURCE OF WEALTH: Investments, real estate

THE MONEY: Self-made billionaire took Dole Food Co. Inc. private in 2013 deal valuing the company at $1.6 billion. Other major holding, Castle & Cooke, holder of vast land, property and oil and gas interests. Values of real estate and gas, in particular, rose this year.

BUZZ: Dole purchase has Murdock on defensive as investors sued, alleging he and Deutsche Bank structured deal at expense of shareholders, who deserve more for shares. Told judge investors painting him as “skunk,” insisted deal fair. Sold 12,000-square-foot Bel Air home for $24 million in June, though still lives nearby. Announced $15 million-a-year donation to 350-acre North Carolina Research Campus he owns near Charlotte, N.C. Campus features 311,000-square-foot laboratory for health research. Endowment intended to make center premier institution on nutrition in country. Major shareholder of cancer drug developer NovaRX Corp., where son Justin is chief executive. Ninety-one-year-old said he wants to live until he’s 125 and avoids vitamins and supplements, opting for two to three smoothies daily that equal about 20 servings of fruits and vegetables.

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