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2009 2007 OWNER/ 2009 2007 OWNER/ 2009 2007 OWNER/ RANK RANK HOUSE VALUE RANK RANK HOUSE VALUE RANK RANK HOUSE VALUE The 100 Most 1 1 Tom Hicks 35 15 Al Hill Jr. 69 80 Nancy and $41,462,030 $11,596,340 Clay Mulford 2 2 John Muse 36 NEW Thomas Dundon $8,626,080 $30,208,470 $11,384,440 70 93 Martha and 3 4 Larry Lacerte 37 27 Vinay Jain Donald Miller Expensive Homes in $28,742,300 $10,948,370 $8,478,690 Our biennial look at the sweetest spreads in town ﬁ nds the 4 9 H. Ross Perot 38 42 Clark Hunt 71 99 Royal Carson $24,816,180 $10,716,360 $8,472,040 new names that have joined the usual silk-stocking suspects. 5 3 Harlan Crow 39 return Marianne Plancke 72 NEW Jim Lucas Dallas HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHY BY GUSTAV SCHMIEGE AND SCOTT WOMACK II ILLUSTRATIONS BY MICHAEL WITTE $24,087,440 and Issam Karanouh $8,366,190 6 5 Ed Cox $10,639,240 73 83 G. Houston Hall $21,832,500 40 47 Charles Wyly $8,316,300 7 6 Gene Phillips $10,638,850 74 NEW Doug Rippeto $19,800,000 41 return Bill Clements $8,312,800 8 13 Gerald Ford $10,587,310 75 40 William Oates $19,289,970 42 NEW Richard Malouf $8,311,160 9 10 Mark Cuban $10,478,750 76 90 Jerry Freeman $17,603,280 43 86 Randall Fojtasek $8,296,540 10 8 Jerry Jones $10,372,470 77 67 Gladys Carr $17,343,200 44 76 Brint Ryan $8,205,590 11 NEW Clint Carlson $10,325,920 78 return Lee Trevino $17,245,850 45 91 Michael Bishop $8,194,300 12 11 Lisa Blue $10,298,960 79 52 Jack Pratt $17,224,630 46 23 Joe Garza $8,159,140 13 7 Margaret Crow $9,664,010 80 NEW Randall Van $15,900,000 47 35 Robert Haas Wolfswinkel 14 20 Stanford Finney $9,987,170 $8,140,030 $15,724,880 48 62 Richard Bass 81 60 Dick Snyder 15 17 Suzanne and $9,981,280 $8,035,410 Patrick McGee 49 NEW James Beckett III 82 54 Emmanuel $15,660,300 $9,813,420 Ubinas-Brache 16 14 John Tolleson 50 26 Mary and Albert $8,028,800 $14,944,500 Huddleston 83 return Debbie and 17 12 Steven Aaron $9,547,600 Frank Branson $14,216,830 51 86 Berry Cox $8,007,330 18 NEW Troy Aikman $9,468,770 84 38 Robert Rowling $14,167,250 52 NEW Thomas Neuhoff $8,000,000 19 36 John McReynolds $9,664,390 85 81 John Carona $13,319,990 53 32 Lee Roy Mitchell $7,971,170 20 45 Billy Don Henry $9,538,340 86 39 Rusty Rose $13,100,000 54 41 James Dondero $7,891,590 21 44 Kenny Troutt $9,491,230 87 return Diane Gibby and $13,029,820 55 29 John Amend Rod Rohrich 22 NEW Trevor Rees-Jones $9,478,400 $7,835,580 $13,000,000 56 79 Lucy and Henry Billingsley 88 return Ronald McCutchin 23 33 Terry Worrell $9,475,760 $7,814,770 $12,725,220 57 21 Jeff rey Heller 89 97 William Seanor 24 16 Bob Ladd $9,472,220 $7,800,540 $12,715,810 58 88 H. Doug Barnes 90 92 Shlomo Sam Finn 25 NEW Richard Cheatham $9,460,500 $7,761,010 $12,520,150 59 28 Larry Wolford 91 100 Mike Mullen 26 61 Nancy Marcus $9,443,700 $7,748,470 $12,328,170 60 25 Timothy Eller 92 55 Michael McCoy 27 24 J. Baxter Brinkmann $9,388,790 $7,630,000 $12,197,430 61 30 Newt Walker 93 77 Harry Longwell 28 37 Phil Romano $9,214,260 $7,619,850 $12,078,940 62 57 James Moore 94 NEW Jim Graves 29 43 Henrietta Schultz $9,095,990 $7,500,000 $12,072,660 63 73 Cary Maguire 95 return Scott Ginsburg 30 22 Robert Schlegel $9,062,710 $7,451,900 $12,029,250 64 87 Stephen McCarthy 96 75 Richard Strauss 31 NEW Malone Mitchell $8,815,180 $7,451,440 $11,772,430 65 82 Donald Huffi nes 97 see 54 James Dondero 32 72 Laurence Lebowitz $8,775,640 $7,374,240 $11,764,430 66 49 Cathy and Ralph Oats 98 NEW Dorothea Kelley 33 NEW Audrey and Erich $8,769,700 $7,358,120 NO. Spangenberg 67 NEW James Tucker 99 return Trea and Richard Yip $11,548,500 $8,684,420 $7,304,990 34 19 Trevor Pearlman 68 34 Brooks Reed 100 53 Stephen Sands $11,603,420 $8,668,280 $7,275,420

24 METHODOLOGY: All data for the ranking came from the Dallas Central Appraisal District and were accurate at press time. The appraisals might change by the time the tax rolls are ﬁ nalized later this month. Every eff ort was made to tally multiple contigu- $12,715,810 ous accounts held by individuals, where appropriate.

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1 // CINDA AND TOM HICKS 6 // ED COX $41,462,030 $21,832,500 On the one hand, the inves- The oilman and investor tor and sports team magnate gave his name and part of his looks to be in trouble: he fortune to SMU’s business recently defaulted on $525 school. million in loans, he’s trying to sell off parts of the Stars and 7 // ROXANNE AND Rangers, and this month the GENE PHILLIPS $400 million loan he used to $19,800,000 18 buy Liverpool FC comes due. His might be the most inter- On the other hand: he lives in a esting CV ont this list. A his 28,996-square-foot house on website, genephillips.org, you 12 // LISA BLUE 25 acres, and last year he used can read about his real estate $17,224,630 10 million gallons of water. ventures in South Korea and The trial lawyer was married to law about his successful Balkan partner Fred Baron, who died from 2 // LYN AND JOHN MUSE Energy Company. For fun, cancer last year. Her house, a site $30,208,470 though, you should google his of many Democratic fundraisers, The chairman of private equity name along with the terms has its own website. Baronhoused- fi rm HM Capital Partners “mafi a” and “indicted.” He allas.com describes the style of used to fl y higher when he lives on 14.2 acres next door the 15,254-square-foot home as did deals with Hicks (No. 1) to Hicks (No. 1) and George “English Regency sifted through at Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. W. Bush. American Federal.” Now, according to one fi nance journal, he has taken the fi rm 8 // GERALD FORD 13 // MARGARET CROW “back to its pre-bubble sweet- $19,289,970 $15,900,000 spot in the mid-market.” He Forbes puts the banker at She was married for 66 years gets by with 24,932 square No. 355 on its list of richest to Trammell Crow, who died in feet on Preston Road. Americans, with $1.4 billion. 10 January. He founded the Trammell 46 With Ronald Perelman, he Crow Co., which in his lifetime built 3 // JOYCE AND sold Golden State Bancorp in 100 million square feet of com- LARRY LACERTE 2002 to Citigroup for $6 bil- mercial buildings and shaped the 17 // CAROL AND STEVEN AARON Troy does not have a wet bar in his lion. SMU’s football stadium $28,742,300 Dallas we know today. $14,216,830 11,846-square-foot house. The co-founder of Lacerte bears his name. And he owns The CEO of refrigerated trucking Software sold his business to Diamond A Racing, which bred 14 // MARY CLARE company Stevens Transport runs 21 // LISA AND KENNY TROUTT Intuit in 1998 for $400 million. the Kentucky Derby’s eighth- AND STANFORD FINNEY the 32nd-largest private company $13,029,820 As of last year, his house was place horse, Regal Ransom. $15,724,880 in Dallas, with 2008 revenues of Forbes puts his worth at $1.3 bil- on the market for $45 million. The head of brokerage fi rm Spy- $574 million. lion, tying him for spot No. 377 on As of this May, he was using its // 9 MARK CUBAN Glass Trading resigned last year the list of richest Americans. He 23,151 square feet and 10 full $17,603,280 from the board of cancer drug 18 // RHONDA AND TROY AIKMAN founded MLM fi rm Excel Com- bathrooms to throw a dinner Forbes says the owner of the maker Genitope, which was sub- $14,167,250 munications in 1988 and sold it 10 party for DSO conductor Jaap Mavericks is worth $2.6 billion, sequently delisted from NASDAQ. The former Cowboys quarter- years later for $3.5 billion. Half his van Zweden. putting him at No. 161 on the 22 Oddly, according to appraisal back and current TV broadcaster home’s value lies in his 4.36 acres list of richest Americans. On district records, his 14,215-square- has lived in a Highland Park home on Strait Lane. // the Internet, there are pictures 4 H. ROSS PEROT foot home has fi ve fi replaces but for some time that would put $24,816,180 of his hip-replacement scar. no bedrooms. him at the bottom of this list. But 22 // JAN AND Forbes says the pie-chart-lov- 20 he recently bought the adjacent TREVOR REES-JONES ing founder of EDS and Perot 10 // GENE AND JERRY JONES 15 // SUZANNE AND house from low-income developer $13,000,000 Systems is No. 68 on the list $17,343,200 PATRICK MCGEE Brian Potashnik, ensnared in the Forbes pegs him at $2 billion, of richest Americans, with $5 Forbes puts his net worth at $15,660,300 Dallas City Hall corruption case. putting him at No. 227 on the list billion. His family’s $2.5 billion $1.4 billion, tying the Cowboys The co-founder of private equity Are these merely two separate of richest Americans. His Chief Parkcentral Global Hub hedge owner with Hicks at No. 355 fi rm Brazos Partners (see Ran- houses? Or do they comprise a Oil & Gas was one of the fi rst to fund evaporated in late 2008. on its list. His Preston Road dall Fojtasek, No. 43) is married giant Aikman compound? For now, drill in the Barnett Shale and sold His spread stretches across house is right down the street to Perot’s daughter (No. 4). Prior we go with the latter. to Devon Energy and Crosstex two lots, from Strait Lane to from Crow’s (No. 5). to Brazos, he was a principal at

DANSELLERS Energy in 2006 for $2.6 billion. Inwood Road. Hicks, Muse (Nos. 1 and 2). 19 // JOHN MCREYNOLDS In 2008, Quicksilver Resources 11 // NANCY AND CLINT $13,319,990 bought more Barnett assets // 5 HARLAN CROW CARLSON 16 // DEBBIE AND JOHN TOLLESON The director of natural gas pipe- owned by Hillwood and Chief $24,087,440 $17,245,850 $14,944,500 line outfi t Energy Transfer owns for $1.3 billion, netting Rees- The real estate mogul and According to the DMN, in The founder of First USA (merged Chateau de Triomphe, the 73,000- Jones $400 million. Last year, he son of Trammell Crow (No. 13) 2007 the president and CIO of with Bank One) now runs Tolle- square-foot Strait Lane mansion donated $25 million to Parkland. fi nanced the eff ort to quash hedge fund fi rm Carlson Capi- son Wealth Management, whose destroyed in a 2002 blaze. He bought his Turtle Creek Boule- the city-owned convention tal paid about $20 million for website notes: “For parents and vard home from B. Edward Ewing, center hotel. TV entrepreneur Jim Hoak’s children alike, substantial wealth 20 // CHERYL AND founder of buyout fi rm Ewing University Park house. His raises questions and challenges BILLY DON HENRY Management Group. spread includes two lots. MYERS; AIKMAN: CORBIS;REES-JONES: few would ever anticipate.” $13,100,000

TADD According to appraisal district 52 records, the CEO of commercial

JONES: insurer McQueary Henry Bowles

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23 // SHARON AND Strait Lane home on the mar- 35 // AL HILL JR. TERRY WORRELL ket for $17.5 million. $11,596,340 $12,725,220 The grandson of H.L. Hunt The founder of Sound Ware- 29 // HENRIETTA SCHULTZ (see Amend, No. 55) is a for- Thomas Dundon house now runs Worrell Invest- $12,072,660 28 55 mer tennis ace and dater of ments, a real estate investment The 93-year-old is associated Bond girls. A well-publicized $11,384,4400 company, and is a director of with Dallas-based oil and gas lawsuit fi led against him and Titanium Metals Corporation fi rm Schultz Companies. Her other Hunt family members tom dundon and his wife didn’t set and chemical company NL Park Lane home is 14 years by his son Al Hill III did not Industries. His servants quar- younger than she is. out to build one of the most remarkable homes stop the sale of Hunt Petro- ters measure 2,450 square in Dallas. They really just wanted a great place leum last year to XTO Energy feet. 30 // MYRNA AND for their growing family to enjoy. They wanted for $4.2 billion. ROBERT SCHLEGEL a place the kids would want to invite other 24 // TRUDY AND BOB LADD $12,029,250 36 kids over to, so they would get more time with $12,715,810 The Canadian native and 36 // THOMAS DUNDON The co-founder of Duncan- CEO of concrete landscape $11,384,440 them. That’s what they told Mark Molthan, the ville’s Quality Cabinets sold brick maker Pavestone can’t See profi le at right. designer who built their previous two homes out to Masco and eventually be pleased with his higher when they looked at the raw land that consti- 58 retired in 2004. The next year, appraisal, especially consid- 37 // KANIKA AND VINAY JAIN tuted their little plot. $10,948,370 he came out of retirement to ering that the FTC earlier this Molthan took that cue and ran with it, The Baylor doctor is an become the CEO of Arling- year kiboshed the planned building less a home than a vacation resort. It ton-based Choice Homes— $540 million sale of his com- authority on malignant lym- just in time for the mortgage pany. The 19,223-square-foot phomas and founded CURE features the following: a swim park, indoor- meltdown. house sits on 4.3 acres. magazine, with a circulation outdoor tennis courts, a baseball infi eld, a of 425,000, and Physicians’ dance studio, an automated batting cage (one of their youngest boys was hitting whiffl e balls over 25 // TRACY AND 31 // AMY AND Education Resource, the the fence at their previous home by the time he was 4), a putting green, a go-cart track, a gym, and Audrey and Erich Spangenberg RICHARD CHEATHAM MALONE MITCHELL country’s leading oncology an indoor and outdoor slide from the second to the fi rst fl oor. There’s also a stocked lake. $12,520,150 $11,772,430 education company. $11,548,500 The publicity shy oilman The chairman of Alberta-based “Mark just did an incredible job, on time and within the budget,” Dundon says. “We didn’t plan worked at Hunt Oil and is now oil and gas explorer TransAt- 38 // TAVIA AND CLARK HUNT on this being so prominent from Northwest Highway. When we saw the frame up in the winter erich spangenberg made his money the old-fashioned associated with Tsa r Energy—if lantic Petroleum Corporation $10,716,360 when the trees were bare, we realized how big it looked from the street, and we said, ‘Oh, crap.’ way: he sued the hell out of anyone within reach. Erich made his bones LinkedIn is to be believed, his bought Lamar Hunt’s house. The chairman of Hunt Sports We’re working on growing in the landscaping so it won’t stand out so much.” wringing money from patent portfolios, suing anyone remotely con- wife Tra cy owns the company. Last summer, he donated $57 Group (K.C. Chiefs, FC Dallas) Dundon made his money building and then selling Drive Financial Services, a sub-prime auto nected to the patents he bought and by forging licensing deals under The Cheathams bought their million to Oklahoma State is the grandson of H.L. Hunt loan company that was acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano SA for $636 million in cash house from Westcott Com- University. (see Amend, No. 55) and son the threat of lawsuit. in late 2006. Dundon is still an executive offi cer with the company. 33 munications entrepreneur Carl of Lamar Hunt (see Mitchell Audrey runs a fi rm called Acclaim Financial Group, which owns a Westcott and his wife Jimmy. 32 // LAURENCE LEBOWITZ No. 31). Barrett Wissman, his small money-losing software company called FirePond. But Acclaim (In 2007, the house was on the $11,764,430 partner in hedge fund fi rm also owns a patent holding company that used to be named Plutus, market for $16.9 million.) The chairman of hedge fund HFV Management, pled guilty after the Greek god of wealth, but which last year changed its name to fi rm HBK and his wife Naomi in April to felony securities TechDev Holdings. That’s where the action is. 26 // NANCY MARCUS live in a 12,057-square-foot fraud and agreed to pay a $12 Michaels. In Senate hearings last from Comer Cottrell, founder of 45 // ELYSIANN AND $12,328,170 home on Strait Lane. million fi ne. His wife Tavia was summer, the brothers drew fi re Pro-Line ethnic hair products. MICHAEL BISHOP In the business, they are called “patent trolls.” They buy patent The ex-wife of Marcus Cable rights but don’t actually use the technology—they just sue others who Miss Kansas ’93. The couple’s for their creative use of off shore $10,298,960 founder Jeff rey got to keep the 33 // AUDREY AND estate sits on two lots in High- tax shelters. Perhaps some of the 43 // OLA AND The founder of Lewisville-based do. The Spangenbergs run a thicket of shell companies like TechDev house. The divorce also cost ERICH SPANGENBERG land Park. savings made possible the Dee RANDALL FOJTASEK cosmetics company Active out of the small town of Marshall, Texas. In the last fi ve years, those Jeff rey an ambassadorship to $11,548,500 and Charles Wyly Theatre. $10,372,470 Organics runs it with his wife Ely- companies have fi led scores of patent suits against hundreds of com- Brussels. In 2003, four days See profi le at left. 39 // MARIANNE PLANCKE The former Hicks Muser (see No. siann and lives in the only Frank after being sworn in to the panies. Most of their suits are fi led in the Eastern District of Texas, to AND ISSAM KARANOUH 41 // RITA AND 1) co-founded private equity fi rm Lloyd Wright home built in Dallas post, he was forced to resign. 34 // ELAINE AND which Marshall belongs. The venue is considered friendly to patent $10,639,240 BILL CLEMENTS Brazos Partners (see McGee, No. (and the last home built before TREVOR PEARLMAN The couple operates Plano- $10,587,310 15). He bought his home in 2007 Wright’s death). plaintiffs. As one example of the Spangenbergs’ legal wranglings, they // 27 J. BAXTER BRINKMANN $11,603,420 based Intermandeco, one The former governor of Texas and has seen its appraisal jump are both currently suing Google—he for patent infringement, she for $12,197,430 The toxic tort lawyer founded of the largest residential made his money in oil, founding more than $4 million since. His 46 // JOE GARZA trademark infringement. Court records show that the Spangenbergs The founder of Brinkmann private equity fi rm Tregan Part- developers in the area. Their SEDCO, which was at the time father Joe Fojtasek, founder of $9,664,010 Corp., maker of outdoor grills ners, then launched Las Vegas have scored more than $72 million in such suits since October 2007 estate climbs the list because the world’s largest off shore driller. window and door manufacturer The bond lawyer is a name part- and many other consumer development company Edge (not including a $34 million verdict they won in a 2007 trial against the appraisal jumped and George Bayoud, one of his former Fojtasek Companies, lives next ner of Garza & Harris, a small but products, is a large Frisco Group, which bought the Bour- Hyundai but which is on appeal). because we’ve accounted secretaries of state, told the Aus- door to Shlomo Sam Finn (No. busy fi rm that does work for the landowner. His spread includes bon Street hotel in 2004 and for their two lots, which total tin American-Statesman in May 90). state of Texas (among others). He Not that it’s been all good for the Spangenbergs. After Erich won a two lots off Jourdan Way, and it sold it to Harrah’s a year later 4 acres on Strait Lane. Their that the 92-year-old Clements is bought the house on Beverly in big settlement from DailmerChrysler with the condition he not sue overlooks a pond. for $40 million profi t. In 2007, 12,984-square-foot Italian // again, one of his shell corporations did just that. DailmerChrysler hit Edge cancelled its planned W spry and still driving. His two lots 44 AMANDA AND BRINT RYAN 2004 for $9.6 million from Mark villa has a 3,423-square-foot on Turtle Creek Boulevard abut $10,325,920 Bunting, the two wound up in a back hard and got a $4 million ruling against him. 28 // PHIL ROMANO Las Vegas Hotel. $12,078,940 garage. Frank Branson’s estate (No. 83). The founder of tax services fi rm protracted legal battle over the When she’s not in court, Audrey is active in Dallas philanthropic Ryan spent a lot of money to lose sale, and Bunting moved into a work, running the Spangenberg Family Foundation, which works for Though he’s known as a res- taurateur (Fuddrucker’s, Maca- 40 // DEE AND 42 // LEANNE AND the May Dallas City Council elec- house just one block away. the benefi t of children’s education and medical research. roni Grill, Eatzi’s, etc.), he made CHARLES WYLY RICHARD MALOUF tion in District 13 to Ann Margolin. The couple bought their home from Altsys founder Kevin his fi rst fortune by investing $10,638,850 $10,478,750 He owns a Lamborghini Gallardo Crowder. in a heart stint invention. His DANSELLERS He made billions in comput- The head of All Smiles Dental and and has racked up a number appraisal jumped $4 million, ers with brother Sam (whose Orthodontics opened a clinic last of speeding tickets. The Ryans $6.5 million house misses the year in a Carnival grocery store. made the list by building a new perhaps because he has his ROMANO: cut) and founded craft store He bought his Strait Lane home house.

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59 // DENISE AND 65 // MARY AND 47 // CANDICE AND ROBERT HAAS constructed home on Preston 53 // TANDY AND 56 // LUCY AND HENRY LARRY WOLFORD DONALD HUFFINES $9,987,170 Road. LEE ROY MITCHELL BILLINGSLEY $9,443,700 $8,775,640 He started with Hicks & Haas (see $9,538,340 $9,475,760 The Baylor craniofacial surgeon The co-owner of residential devel- Hicks, No. 1) and made millions 50 // MARY AND ALBERT The founder and chairman of She is the only daughter of Tram- implanted a titanium prosthetic oper Huffi nes Communities ew fl merging Dr Pepper with Seven Up HUDDLESTON Cinemark USA lives in a 14,341- mell Crow (No. 13). She and her jaw in jazz singer Megan Birdsall a huge Ron Paul banner outside and selling the combo to Cadbury $9,547,600 square-foot Preston Hollow home husband run the Billingsley Com- in 2007. He lives with his wife in a his Highland Park home, a pink Schweppes. He now runs another The granddaughter of H.L. Hunt with 21-seat movie theater. pany (One Arts Plaza, etc.). South Florida-style pad on Lake- granite “modern Richardsonian buyout fi rm, Haas Wheat & Part- and daughter of Nelson Bunker side Drive. Romanesque masterpiece” called ners. He has also published books Hunt is married to the CEO of 54 // JAMES DONDERO 57 // CAROL AND Coram Deo that is on the market of aerial wildlife photography, Hyperion Energy, which has plans $9,491,230 JEFFREY HELLER 60 // TIMOTHY ELLER for $10 million. including several with National to build a controversial $10 billion Co-founder of Highland Capital $9,472,220 $9,388,790 Geographic. oil refi nery in South Dakota. Management suff ered massive The former vice chairman of EDS The chairman and CEO of home- 66 // CATHY AND RALPH OATS losses last year and had to shut- is now a director of Austin-based builder Centex earned a total $8,769,700 48 // RICHARD BASS 51 // BERRY COX ter two funds, prompting a lawsuit paper products fi rm Temple- compensation of $13.2 mil- See profi le at right. $9,981,280 $9,468,770 fi led by UBS that claimed $745 Inland and of insurer Mutual lion in 2008. This year Centex The oilman (not related to the The son of oilman Ed (No. 6) million in losses. He’s a big-game of Omaha. He lives in a 9,480- merged with Pulte to become the 67 // KATHY AND Fort Worth Bass clan) was the married Jeanne, daughter of late hunter and once told the DMN: square-foot home on Lakeside country’s largest homebuilder. JAMES TUCKER fi rst to climb the highest moun- Senator John Tower. He was a “Giraff e makes very tasty jerky.” Drive. Together, the two companies lost tains on seven continents. He and director of Home Depot until his Not only does he own this house, $8,684,420 about $916 million in the fi rst The president of Tucker Elec- Herbert Hunt (uncle of Al Hill Jr., 2005 retirement. but he owns another on the list, 58 // H. DOUG BARNES quarter. tronics, a distributor of test and No. 35; brother of Lamar Hunt) No. 97. (Bordeaux, $7,374,240) $9,460,500 measurement instruments, has run controversial PacRim Coal, 52 // JUDY AND The founder of eyeglass retailer // a house on Strait Lane next to Cathy and Ralph Oats which is working to develop Alas- THOMAS NEUHOFF 55 // TERESA AND JOHN AMEND Eyemart Express built a 20,649- 61 FAY AND NEWT WALKER ka’s largest coal strip mine. $9,664,390 $9,478,400 square-foot house (not including $9,214,260 Richard Malouf (No. 42). It’s on NEWS $8,769,700 His family once ran the largest The head of real estate fi rm 6,389 square feet of enclosed The real estate broker enjoys not the market for $7.95 million and is 49 // JAMES BECKETT III independent meatpacker in the Amend Group lives in the old H.L. patio) that backs up to Robert one but two wet bars in his 9,094- described as a columned mansion Southwest, Neuhoff Bros., then Hunt Mount Vernon estate on Haas’ property (No. 47). He took square-foot Lakeside Drive home. “inspired by an historic 19th-cen- after two decades of driving a truck, ralph oats had $9,813,420 MORNING The one-time statistics profes- Neuhoff Oil and Gas. The couple White Rock Lake. The home, with a liking to the walls with windows tury Louisiana plantation.” It was had enough of the daily grind, of barely getting by. So in 1984, fac- sor founded baseball card empire lives in an 8,331-square-foot a 16-car garage and a bowling in them at the Nasher Sculpture 62 // MARION AND built in 2006 and has three stories ing college tuition on a single income of $38,000, the Nashville- DALLAS Beckett Publications, which he home on Armstrong Avenue in alley, was briefl y on the mar- Center and had one built at his JAMES MOORE with an elevator. born high school dropout and his wife threw caution to the wind, $9,095,990 sold in 2005 for $20 million, as Highland Park. ket last year for a rumored $50 house, too, to the consternation and Cathy started selling water fi lters through a multilevel mar- The president of Moore Diver- 68 // SHERRY AND estimated by the New York Times. million. of the ducks that use his pond. keting plan. The goal was to earn a little extra cash, but within Last year he bought a newly BILLINGSLEY: sifi ed Services, a senior-living BROOKS REED 66 consulting fi rm, is also an author. $8,668,280 a year they projected an income from her part-time MLM work His latest book is Assisted Living Chairman of Bestway Rent-to- to exceed his full-time income. Ralph quit driving and joined his Strategies for Changing Markets. Own is also the CEO of Palm wife, building up a network of sellers. His 15,016-square-foot Preston Beach Tan. In 2003, the couple By 1992, the Oatses had something like 687,000 distributors Hollow home with three wet bars temporarily put their house on the selling more than $1 billion worth of product. The two retired looks like a good place to retire. market for $13.75 million. It’s on Turtle Creek and has two eleva- to Florida in 1990, but the downtime bored them, so they set up 63 // ANN AND tors, a stone bridge, a boathouse, their own multilevel marketing company, Wellness International CARY MAGUIRE a watchtower, and a soccer fi eld. Network, which focuses on meeting the vanity desires of Baby $9,062,710 Boomers with products promising better health and youthful The chairman and president of 69 // NANCY AND CLAY MULFORD energy. They hooked high-profi le sports celebrities to endorse Maguire Oil Co. is a self-taught $8,626,080 their products and their MLM line, and offered the usual MLM painter and sculptor, and the The daughter of Ross Perot (No. founder of the Cary M. Magu- 4) is married to a former partner promises of expensive cars, cruises, mansions, and bling to those ire Center for Ethics & Public at the Jones Day law fi rm. He’s distributors who were top sellers. Responsibility at SMU. For his now the CEO of Tom Luce’s non- The Oatses will tell you—repeatedly—that theirs is a classic 80th birthday party last sum- profi t National Math and Science Horatio Alger story. But their fairy tale has a dark subplot. There’s mer, he built a glass pavilion over Initiative. The couple’s estate been no shortage of controversy over the Wellness International his Park Lane backyard so that it abuts those of Clint Carlson Network’s aggressive marketing of ephedra-based products could be air conditioned. (No. 11). 56 back in the late 1990s and early 2000s before ephedra was out- 64 // JUDITH AND 70 // MARTHA AND lawed, and a dozen lawsuits fi led by two score distributors who STEPHEN MCCARTHY DONALD MILLER alleged deceptive business practices, fraud, breach of contract, $8,815,180 $8,478,690 and RICO violations, according to a report in Money magazine. The 71-year-old Stephen McCa- The daughter of Charles Wyly More than a dozen of the lawsuits were settled out of court with rthy Jr. remains a mystery to (No. 40) is married to investor confi dential terms. us. But his wife Judith we have Donald. Their property is dwarfed Still, under the Oatses’ guidance, Wellness International Net- pegged: every year she hosts a by neighbor the Finneys’ spread National Scrapbook Day gather- (No. 14). work has gone, well, international, and it’s a long way from their ing at her home, which has an humble beginnings. Lawsuits or not, from their corporate head- 1,170-square-foot converted quarters in Plano’s Legacy Park, WIN is considered a leader in attic—perhaps for all those scrap- the MLM world and has a corporate longevity that escapes most books, eh? MLM business models. 76 65

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THE 100 MOST EXPENSIVE HOMES IN DALLAS

71 // DEBORAH AND 77 // GLADYS CARR ROYAL CARSON $8,205,590 $8,472,040 The 90-year-old CEO of auto The founder of Carson Petro- parts wholesaler W. Plack Carr leum sold to Devon Energy in Co. likes to donate money to 1982 is now the chairman of Republicans. Her house on For- Carson Private Capital and an est Lane might be the most sin- advisory board member of HM gular on this list. It was built in Capital (see John Muse, No. 2). 1966 and is 5,234 square feet— His home sits between Henri- but it sits on nearly 9 acres. etta Schultz’s (No. 29) and Lee Trevino’s (No. 78) on Park Lane. 78 // CLAUDIA AND LEE TREVINO 72 // MITZI AND JIM LUCAS $8,194,300 $8,366,190 The famed golfer, nicknamed It appears that last year a mys- the Merry Mex, told the DMN in terious couple from California May that he could help Tiger’s bought First Broadcasting CEO game by teaching him to hit a Ronald Unkefer’s house on power fade. He lives next door Lakeside. At one point, it was to Royal Carson (No. 71) on on the market for $15 million. Park Lane. The house was built in 1918 but taken down to the studs and 79 // AILEEN AND rebuilt over a three-year period, JACK PRATT starting in 2000. $8,159,140 The founder of Hollywood Casi- 73 // MICHELLE AND nos is now the head of the Texas G. HOUSTON HALL Gaming Association, which $8,316,300 failed this spring to get legisla- According to appraisal district tion passed that would have records, the money manger brought casinos to Texas. He is for the Falcon Fund lives in a hero. an 11,102-square-foot home that was built in 2003 and is in 80 // RANDALL VAN “excellent” condition. WOLFSWINKEL $8,140,030 82 74 // VICKI AND Last year, Builder magazine DOUG RIPPETO ranked his First Texas Homes as William Seanor $8,312,800 the 36th-largest homebuilder The president and CEO of South in the country. Appropriately $7,800,540 83 // DEBBIE AND 85 // JOHN CARONA 87 // DIANE GIBBY AND 90 // MARGARET AND Carolina-based real estate fi rm enough, he bought his house in FRANK BRANSON $7,971,170 ROD ROHRICH SHLOMO SAM FINN Compass Group also main- 2007 from Timothy Eller if it seems incongruous that a man running a plastics $8,007,330 The senator’s offi cial page on the $7,835,580 $7,761,010 tains homes in Hilton Head and (No. 60). company with just $5 million in annual sales owns an $8 million home, The personal injury lawyers run Texa s Senate site says, “Senator He’s the chair of the plastic sur- The neurosurgeon recently had Beaver Creek. Over his fence, he you have to remember that William Seanor’s Overwraps Packing is a high-profi le eponymous fi rm Carona has been a resident of gery department at UT South- his home on the market for can see the enormous spread 81 // ROBERTA AND his post-retirement enterprise, and the man has for years followed and live next door to Bill Cle- East Dallas since early child- western. She, too, is a plastic sur- $12.95 million and then lowered it of Larry Lacerte (No. 3). His DICK SNYDER the advice that Dustin Hoffman’s character didn’t in The Graduate. ments (No. 41) on Turtle Creek hood.” Except in 2007 he bought geon and started the Women’s by $3 million but still couldn’t sell. appraisal has skyrocketed. $8,035,410 89 At 67, Seanor has more than 43 years in the plastics business, from Boulevard. this 12,014-square-foot house Center for Cosmetic and Plastic The founder of HVAC manufac- the United States to Europe. He started at 24 with Mobil and moved with three wet bars on Deloache Surgery at Medical City. The 91 // TIFFANY AND 75 // MARILYN AND turer SnyderGeneral Corpora- // Avenue, and Deloache doesn’t appraisal on their 20,538-square- WILLIAM OATES tion sold in 1994 for more than on to build Vanguard Plastics, which had plants all over the country 84 TERRY AND MIKE MULLEN run through East Dallas. foot home jumped about $8,311,160 $400 million and now runs and produced carry-out retail sacks. You know when you’re buying ROBERT ROWLING $7,748,470 The founder of business ser- private equity fi rm SnyderCapi- groceries and they ask, “Paper or plastic?” That second choice was $8,000,000 $2.1 million. The oilman famously went hunt- Probably the wealthiest man in 86 // DEEDIE AND RUSTY ROSE ing for a wife on Oprah in 1998 vices provider Global360 sold tal. He lives in the remodeled his company’s product. Four years ago, he sold the 850-employee Dallas, Rowling is worth $6.2 $7,891,590 88 // CAROLYN AND and is now married to his third. his fi rm in 2006 for $200 mil- former Park Lane home of Ted company for a bundle, retired, and quickly got bored. That’s when he lion. Besides this Lakeside Drive Strauss. billion according to Forbes, put- The founder of the Cardinal RONALD MCCUTCHIN His property abuts Mark Cuban’s found Overwraps, bought it up, and went back to work. estate, the Oateses bought a ting him at No. 55 on their list. Investment Company and one- $7,814,770 enormous Preston Hollow estate pad on Beverly last year (valued 82 // EMMANUEL Seanor wouldn’t call it a hobby. He’s serious about growing the com- His father founded Tana Oil & time Rangers co-owner earned The publicity-shy inheritor of oil (No. 9). at $5.8 million) and a cottage UBINAS-BRACHE pany that currently has only a fraction of the massive plastic wrapping Gas, which they merged with the nickname “The Mortician” money is an investor associated on Dartmouth in 2007 (valued $8,028,800 industry. But he does joke that “it keeps him off the streets.” Just how Texa co (now Chevron) in 1989 for for fi nding overvalued stocks with RLMC Inc., which controls a 92 // JONI AND MICHAEL MCCOY at $1.6 million). The plastic surgeon special- massive an industry is plastic overwrapping? Think of pretty much $480 million in cash and stock. and shorting them. His secluded Honolulu-based women’s apparel $7,630,000 He bought Omni Hotels in 1996 home sits between the two Crow concern called Step-N-Up. His He did gas deals with Jerry Jones izes in hand surgeries and lives everything you buy from the shelves in a grocery store that’s not in a // for $500 million. He also owns estates (Harlan and Trammell, home’s appraisal jumped about (No. 10) under Arkoma and was 76 JERRY FREEMAN on Lakeside Drive next door to cardboard box. It’s a $25 billion annual business. $8,296,540 Newt Walker (No. 61)—for now. Gold’s Gym. For a man of vast Nos. 5 and 13). His home has a $2.3 million from 2007. a minority owner of the Cowboys. Just as the car business is going The house is on the market for “We provide fl exible packaging for everything from salty snacks to wealth, he lives in a compara- tar and gravel roof, which some- Joni once told the DMN that into the tank, the owner of the $9.5 million. dried fruits and nuts,” Seanor says. “We’re a small player in the busi- tively modest 10,838-square-foot times can cause maintenance 89 // KAREN AND her wardrobe was 99 percent Freeman auto dealerships saw ness now, just 60 employees, but we’re looking ahead.” home on Beverly Drive. issues. IJS. WILLIAM SEANOR Escada. The couple lives across his appraisal leap almost $2 $7,800,540 the street from Richard Strauss million from 2007. See profi le, opposite page. (No. 96).

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