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Sep 15, 2020, 7 tweets

Exclusive: The billionaire who wanted to die broke…is now officially broke on.forbes.com/6014GQKys

It took decades, but Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of retail giant Duty Free Shoppers has finally given all his money away to charity. He has nothing left now—and he couldn’t be happier

As a philanthropist, he pioneered the idea of Giving While Living—spending most of your fortune on big, hands-on charity bets instead of funding a foundation upon death

Forbes spoke to influential philanthropists on how Chuck Feeney changed charity and inspired giving

Here's what Warren Buffett, the chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, The Gates Foundation and The Giving Pledge said of Chuck Feeney

Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder and President of Emerson Collective on the former billionaire cofounder of retail giant Duty Free Shoppers

“We learned a lot. We would do some things differently, but I am very satisfied. I feel very good about completing this on my watch,” Feeney tells Forbes forbes.com/sites/stevenbe…

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