Acquisition
George Clooney: $1.00B moved in 2017
Diageo bought Casamigos, the tequila brand he co-founded, for $700m up front and up to $300m in performance payments.
The figure
- Amount1,000,000,000 US dollars
- CategoryAcquisition
- CorridorLos Angeles, United States → London, United Kingdom
- Distance8.8K km apart
- Year reported2017
- Documentation confidence92/100
What that amount buys
$1.00B is roughly 13 long-range private jets, 2.4K median-priced US homes, or 12.4K years of median US household income.
George Clooney is publicly known as actor and producer. The arc drawn for this entry joins Los Angeles and London because those are the places the two sides of the deal are based — it is not the route a wire took through the banking system.
Source
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