Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud (Arabic: lwlyd in Tll al swd born on 7 March 1955) is a Saudi Arabian billionaire businessman, investor, philanthropist and the royal. He was featured on Time magazine's Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential individuals in the world in 2008. Al Waleed is a grandson of Abdulaziz who was the first king of Saudi Arabia, and of Riad Al Solh, the first Lebanon's premier minister.Al Waleed was the chief executive officer and 95 percent owne of the Kingdom Holding Company, a company that invests in companies that operate in the tourism, financial services, hospitality, mass media, entertainment retail agriculture, petrochemicals and agriculture technology, aviation, as well as real-estate sectors.In 2013 the company's market capitalization of nearly $18 billion.He is a minor shareholder in Zaveriwala Holdings LLC, and owns Paris' Four Seasons Hotel George V and a part of the New York's Plaza Hotel. Time has dubbed him "Arabian Warren Buffett". Al Waleed was arrested in Saudi Arabia on the 4th of November 2017. He was accompanied by other prominent Saudis, which included other billionaires Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim Al Ibrahim and Saleh Abullah Kamel. This purge was described by the Saudi government as an anti-corruption initiative.
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