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Fireball Run finishing in Cocoa Beach on Saturday by Dave Berman The Fireball Run Space race, a 2000 mile race, ends in Cocoa Beach Saturday with a parade Saturday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. <iframe title=”FLORIDA TODAY – Embed Player” width=”540″ height=”304″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen=”true” marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ src=//www.floridatoday.com/videos/embed/73040004/?fullsite=true></iframe> Video by Malcolm Denemark 9/29/15 Competitors in The Fireball Run end 2,000-mile East …

​See who the richest people in Florida are By Susan Lundine Timeshare king David Siegel, 81, is the richest person in Orlando with a net worth of $900 million, according to an article by Forbes called “Meet the richest person in America’s 50 largest cities.” Siegel is CEO of Westgate Resorts timeshare company, which he founded in 1982. It was …

Posted By Colin Wolf on Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:37 pm With Donald Trump in Orlando for a rally at UCF this weekend, now might be the best time to reflect on the weird fact that Jackie Siegel, star of Queen of Versailles and wife to real estate mogul David Siegel, went on more than one date with The Donald. It’s true, they were …

Hal BoedekerContact Reporter Orlando Sentinel  There’s a surprising sequel to “Celebrity Wife Swap”: Jackie Siegel, known as the “Queen of Versailles,” and actor Jeremy London became close friends. If you saw the ABC reality show last year, you might think they parted on rocky terms after Siegel switched places briefly with London’s wife. “That’s entertainment, buddy,” London said Wednesday in …

Kate SantichContact Reporter Orlando Sentinel The Westgate Resorts Foundation — the charitable arm of Central Florida’s time-share giant — announced Wednesday it is giving $1 million in grants to nonprofits that help children, the homeless, domestic violence survivors and veterans. The foundation marked its 15th anniversary celebration with news of the grants — the largest sum ever in the charity’s …

Orlando Business Journal Richard Bilboa David and Jackie Siegel, the king and queen of Orlando-based Westgate Resorts, are both well past ready to see the completion of their massive Isleworth home, Versailles — but there’s still a ways to go. The 90,000-square-foot Versailles mansion has been under construction for more than a decade and has its own celebrity status, thanks …

How I get close to the uber-rich By Richard Godwin Wealthy Russians commuting in private jets, spoilt, rich Americans living it up in Beverly Hills – Lauren Greenfield has got close to them all. Richard Godwin meets the woman who persuaded the world’s billionaires to let her into their world – and capture it on film How on earth does …

LAURA MALLONEE BY ANY MEASURE, Lauren Greenfield enjoyed a privileged background. Her parents taught at UCLA. She grew up in Venice and attended a private high school in Santa Monica. And yet she felt poor when her friends received BMWs, Porsches, and Volvos for their sweet sixteens and she didn’t. “Even though I had everything I needed, I still felt …

The Atlantic GILLIAN B. WHITE The photojournalist Lauren Greenfield has spent the past 25 years documenting the country’s attitudes toward money and status. America is a country that celebrates wealth. It is also a country where millions struggle day to day, with no real hope of prosperity in their future. Lauren Greenfield, a photojournalist, has been documenting this tension for …