Major 19th-century businesses founded with Rothschild family capital include:

Al Capone

Countries described as Mafia states

• Republics and territories of the former Yugoslavia.
• Transnistria.
• Russia.
• Mexico.
• Other.

• United States. Further information: Gangs in the United States.
• Latin America. There are between 25,000 and 50,000 gang members in Central America’s El Salvador.
• Asia. The Yakuza are among the largest organized crime organizations in the world.
• Europe.
• See also.
• References.
• Further reading.

• Alliance Assurance (1824) (now Royal & Sun Alliance);
• Chemin de Fer du Nord (1845)
• The Rio Tinto mining company (1873) (from the 1880s onwards, the Rothschilds had full control of Rio Tinto)
• Eramet (1880)
• Imerys (1880)
• De Beers (1888)

The Rockefeller family (/ˈrɒkəfɛlər/) is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world’s largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by John D.

Rockefeller. Net worth figures for him are a bit skewed, but his $1.4 billion in olden-day money would be worth several hundred billion now. Some scholars estimate that he would be worth $400 billion today. For scale, that’s three times more than today’s richest person, Jeff Bezos.

David Rockefeller

The official cause of Michael’s death was drowning, but there had long been a multitude of rumors. He’d been kidnapped and kept prisoner. He’d gone native and was hiding out in the jungle. He’d been consumed by sharks.

Rockefeller died in his sleep from congestive heart failure on March 20, 2017, at his home in Pocantico Hills, New York. He was 101 years old.

Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and William the Conquerer’s cousin were wealthier too, when you measure their fortunes relative to GDP.

Rockefeller had a peak net worth of almost $400 billion (£292bn) in today’s money. One of the fathers of modern philanthropy, the Rockefeller patriarch donated the bulk of his wealth to good causes before his death in 1937.

Included in the list of so-called robber barons are Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D. Rockefeller. Robber barons were accused of being monopolists who earned profits by intentionally restricting the production of goods and then raising prices.

John D. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Later in life he turned his attention to charity. He made possible the founding of the University of Chicago and endowed major philanthropic institutions.