Acquisition
George Lucas: $4.05B moved in 2012
Sold Lucasfilm and the Star Wars rights to Disney for cash and stock, becoming one of Disney's largest individual shareholders.
The figure
- Amount4,050,000,000 US dollars
- CategoryAcquisition
- CorridorSan Francisco, United States → Burbank, United States
- Distance544 km apart
- Year reported2012
- Documentation confidence97/100
What that amount buys
$4.05B is roughly 54 long-range private jets, 9.6K median-priced US homes, or 50.2K years of median US household income.
George Lucas is publicly known as film-maker, creator of star wars. The arc drawn for this entry joins San Francisco and Burbank 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.
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