MyBlack^® Wealth

D.C. native 8th on Forbes black wealthiest list

Source: Frost Illustrated

WASHINGTON (NNPA)—It’s hard to know what to expect when you meet a Forbes “lister”—someone literally so wealthy, so successful that we’re forced to pluck them once a year from office suites, stages, and basketball courts and rank them by the zeroes in their bank accounts. Names like Oprah and Magic and Bob and Sheila Johnson float to the top. Now we can add Washington native R. Donahue Peebles to that list. Don’t expect to find Peebles, a real estate titan with a personal wealth of $350 million dollars and controlling a company—the Peebles Corporation—worth $4 billion, hiding behind designer shades or spinning in a tornado of security and Blackberry-wielding Ivyleague assistants. If you don’t mind, he’ll introduce himself. It’s barely above freezing in the nation’s capital and he’s dressed comfortably in a deep navy, pinstriped, suit tailored to his slim 6’3” frame. He smiles and says he’s use to the weather. By the way, you can call him “Don.”

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