The charmed life of Larry Ellison wasn't always caviar and megayachts. The famously competitive Oracle (ORCL) CEO was first abandoned by his mother, then a college dropout and a wannabe database engineer with not much cash to his name. "I had all the disadvantages required for success," Ellison once said. Today, the 65-year-old self-made billionaire has a lifestyle of the rich and famous—and we've got the pictures, rankings and details to show you just how rich. Larry knows luxury, and "little" is not part of his lexicon.
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