31. Michael Eisner — $2.5 billion | Los Angeles Business Journal

31. Michael Elsner

NET WORTH: $2.5 billion
AGE: 78
RESIDENCE: Bel Air
SOURCE OF WEALTH: Entertainment, investments
LAST YEAR: $2.3 billion
CHANGE: +9%

THE MONEY: A longtime Hollywood power player, including 21 years as chief executive and chairman of Walt Disney Co., Eisner mostly keeps a low profile today. He sits on the board of old friend Barry Diller’s IAC holding company, which operates media and internet services, including Match Group, in which Eisner holds stock. Eisner also chairs Tornante Co., a vehicle for investing in the entertainment and media industries. He owns Portsmouth Football Club in England and the Topps Co. Inc. trading card company. The Eisner Foundation focuses on access and opportunity for disadvantaged children and the aging in Los Angeles County.

THE BUZZ: Tornante’s popular animated Netflix show “Bojack Horseman” took home its second consecutive Annie Award earlier this year and earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program in 2019. Keeping tabs on his former company, Eisner praised the selection of Bob Chapek to succeed Bob Iger as Disney CEO in February. Eisner first made his mark as a television executive at ABC, where he helped take the network from third to first place. He became president of Paramount Pictures in 1976, shepherding such hits as “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Saturday Night Fever” and “Grease.”

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