ABOUT THE WEALTHIEST
Our goal is to give readers accurate, impartial and verifiable estimates of wealth for those on our list.
We’ve spoken with numerous trusted sources—including wealth managers, knowledgeable real estate owners and heads of family offices, among others—to get insight into investment trends, asset allocation, tax implications, philanthropic efforts and other factors that determine our estimates.
Some individuals on our list cooperated with us to provide guidance for our estimates. Others declined. A few have told us they would prefer not to be on the list at all.
As always, our listing comes with caveats. Like Forbes, Bloomberg and other similar listings, our numbers are conservative, ballpark figures. We’ve done our best to catalog assets, but only the people on our listing know their true value.
Nor is our listing all-inclusive. We’ve done our best to track down those who we believe are OC’s wealthiest people – those who live here full-time, part-time or run major firms in OC.
While determining wealth is admittedly as much an art as it is a science, we feel comfortable with the inclusion of every entry in this edition and have gone above and beyond to provide readers with solid reasoning behind each entry, and their estimates.
We’ve spent months looking into each entry’s holdings, company assets, public records and press clippings.
—Peter J. Brennan
| RANK | THE 2025 OC’S WEALTHIEST |
| 1 | Henry Samueli |
| 2 | Ernest Garcia II |
| 3 | Donald Bren |
| 4 | Hasso Plattner |
| 5 | Patrick Soon-Shiong |
| 6 | David Sun |
| 6 | John Tu |
| 8 | Henry T. Nicholas III |
| 9 | Igor Olenicoff |
| 10 | Ed P. Roski Jr. |
| 11 | Palmer Luckey |
| 12 | Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson |
| 13 | Mark Cuban |
| 14 | Rick Caruso |
| 15 | Rodney Sacks |
| 15 | Hilton Schlosberg |
| 17 | C. Frederick “Fred” Taylor |
| 18 | Arturo “Arte” R. Morreno |
| 19 | Vinny Smith |
| 20 | George Argyros, Julia Argyros, Stephanie Argyros & Lisa Argyros |
| 21 | Andrew and Peggy Cherng |
| 22 | Paul Merage |
| 23 | Larry Van Tuyl |
| 24 | Frank Fertitta III |
| 25 | Joseph Edelman |
| 25 | Bill Gross |
| 27 | Segerstrom Family |
| 28 | Fariborz Maseeh |
| 29 | Henry Davis |
| 30 | Sue Gross |
| 31 | Wong Leun Hei |
| 32 | Gary Jabara |
| 33 | Anne Catherine Getty Earhart |
| 33 | Caroline Marie Getty |
| 35 | Jared Smith |
| 36 | William Wang |
| 37 | Ron Simon |
| 38 | RJ Scaringe |
| 39 | Victor Tsao |
| 40 | Mars Family |
| 41 | Joe Kiani |
| 42 | Anthony Hsieh |
| 43 | Monouch Moshayedi, Mark Moshayedi & Mike Moshayedi |
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