• Over five decades, Philip Anschutz has built fortunes in oil, railroads, telecom, real estate and entertainment.
  • He owns the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and a third of the Los Angeles Lakers, plus the arena in which they play, the Staples Center.
  • His Anschutz Entertainment Group operates more than 100 arenas and concert venues worldwide.
  • On 300,000 acres he owns in Wyoming, Anschutz aims to build one of the world's biggest wind farms.
  • He started testing his business acumen early: a six-year-old Anschutz sold Kool-Aid on a nearby college campus using a wheeled stand he built.
Wealth History
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Personal Stats
Age82
Source of Wealthinvestments
ResidenceDenver, Colorado
CitizenshipUnited States
Marital StatusMarried
Children3
EducationBachelor of Arts/Science, University of Kansas
Did you know
Anschutz owns two five-star resorts, the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs and Sea Island in Georgia.
In 2010, he donated 400 masterpieces by the likes of Frederic Remington to create the American Museum of Western Art in Denver.
In Their Own Words

When you see what can be done, the possibilities, you want to be involved in something. You want to own it.

Philip Anschutz
Key Connections
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