Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Sued Forbes For Under Estimating His Wealth From $30billion To $20Billion.

According to Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, he is worth $30 billion dollars and not $20 billion as stated by Forbes in its 2013 rich men and women list both on its websites and magazines. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal was so vessed to the point that he sued the fortune 500 company to court…

The Saudi prince sued Forbes magazine for libel because it said he was only worth $20billion in its annual rich list instead of $30billion. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s richest businessmen, claims the magazine underestimated his wealth by £9.6billion when it placed him at 26th in this year’s list. Being listed as worth $29.6billion would have placed him in the list’s top ten. Alwaleed accused Forbes as been ‘flawed and inaccurate, displays bias against Middle East investors and financial institutions’ in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph in March. The prince has now brought libel action against the magazine’s publisher Randall Lane and two journalists in the High Court in London, reports the Guardian. He will claim that the Rich List caused serious harm to his reputation and to his company Kingdom Holdings’ finances. His company Kingdom Holdings controls investments including stakes in Apple, Facebook, Twitter and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
His property includes the Savoy Hotel, the Plaza in New York, the Four Seasons hotel chain and a stake in the owners of London’s Canary Wharf complex. Forbes calculated the prince’s wealth based on the value of his known investments instead of Kingdom’s share price on the Taduwal, the Saudi stock exchange, it said.