{"id":"ronald-perelman","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ronald-perelman","language":"en","name":"Ronald Perelman","name_en":"Ronald Perelman","name_ne":null,"description":"American businessman and investor (born 1943)","headline":"American businessman and investor (born 1943)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Ronald Owen Perelman is an American banker, businessman, investor, and philanthropist. MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated, his company, has invested in companies with interests in groceries, cigars, licorice, makeup, cars, photography, television, camping supplies, security, gaming, jewelry, banks, and comic book publishing. Perelman holds significant shares in companies such as Deluxe Entertainment, Revlon, SIGA Technologies, RetailMeNot, Merisant, Scantron, Scientific Games Corporation, Valassis, vTv Therapeutics and Harland Clarke. He previously owned a majority of shares in AM General, but in 2020 sold the majority of his shares in AM General along with significant works of art, in light of the impact of the economy on the high debt burdens many of his companies have from leveraged buyouts. In early 2020, Revlon, acquired by Perelman in the 1980s, undertook a debt deal.\nPreviously worth $19.8 billion in 2018, Perelman is, as of November 2022, worth $1.9 billion.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1 January 1943","date":"1943-01-01"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557049#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Greensboro","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49238"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557049#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557049#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"entrepreneur","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131524"},{"text":"financier","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1979607"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557049#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"The Wharton School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1329269"},{"text":"The Haverford School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7739047"},{"text":"Cheltenham High School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5090207"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557049#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Claudia Cohen","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5129154","start":"1985","end":"1994"},{"text":"Patricia Duff","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7145560","start":"1995-01-25","end":"1996"},{"text":"Ellen Barkin","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q229234","start":"2000-06","end":"2006"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557049#P26"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Legion of Honour","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q163700"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557049#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Perelman","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557049"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Ronald Perelman born?","a":"Ronald Perelman was born on 1 January 1943 in Greensboro."},{"q":"Where did Ronald Perelman study?","a":"Ronald Perelman was educated at The Wharton School, The Haverford School, Cheltenham High School."}],"related":[{"name":"Abigail Johnson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abigail-johnson"},{"name":"Alex Karp","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alex-karp"},{"name":"Alice Walton","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alice-walton"},{"name":"Arte Moreno","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arte-moreno"},{"name":"Arthur Blank","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arthur-blank"},{"name":"Baiju Bhatt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/baiju-bhatt"},{"name":"Barry Diller","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barry-diller"},{"name":"Ben Chestnut","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ben-chestnut"},{"name":"Bill Ackman","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-ackman"},{"name":"Bill Gates","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-gates"},{"name":"Bob Parsons","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bob-parsons"},{"name":"Bobby Murphy","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bobby-murphy"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/ronald-perelman-85172a28f7.jpg","width":500,"height":714,"license":"CC BY 3.0","credit":"David Shankbone","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ron_Perelman_Shankbone_2009_Vanity_Fair.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Ronald Perelman","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Perelman","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q557049","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557049","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Ron Perelman Shankbone 2009 Vanity Fair.jpg by David Shankbone (CC BY 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ron_Perelman_Shankbone_2009_Vanity_Fair.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Ronald Perelman, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Ron Perelman Shankbone 2009 Vanity Fair.jpg — David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0.","cite":"\"Ronald Perelman\". DigiNepal. Last updated 30 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/ronald-perelman. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-30T06:22:56Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/ronald-perelman","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/ronald-perelman","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/ronald-perelman?lang=ne"}}