“Life comes at you fast,” doesn’t it Eike Batista? (Just ask MC Hammer and Allen Stanford).
It has been a very tough recent stretch for former Brazilian billionaire, Eike Batista. In 2012, shortly after he was described by Brazil’s President, Dilma Rousseff, as “our standard, our expectation and, above all, the pride of Brazil when it comes to a businessman in the private sector,” Batista’s net worth reportedly peaked at $30 billion. He had a Mercedes-Benz McLaren – which he reportedly liked to park in the living room of his mansion to show off to visitors. After the October 2013 collapse of his oil company, OGX, however, Batista says his net worth now stands at negative $1 billion.
