The last year that Jeffry Picower and his wife were on the Forbes list was in 2009. Forbes put their net worth at $1 billion. The Picowers werent even on the 2008 list, or the 2007 list or any other list that I could find before that.

In other words, according to Forbes, he wasnt even a billionaire until 2009. (His 2009 entry lists his source of wealth as "Investments, Self-made").

Now...