Leonardo Farkas Net Worth - Pulptastic
Leonardo Farkas Net Worth
Leonardo Farkas, a Chilean businessman and philanthropist, has a net worth of $70 million. He studied commercial engineering at the University of Santiago, Chile and later emigrated to the United States where he worked as a piano player and in several Caribbean cruise companies. Farkas later returned to Chile to manage the family business where he has stakes in several industries, particularly the mining sector which is his most lucrative investment.
Farkas is well-known in Chile for his philanthropy work. He has donated hundreds of millions of pesos to the Chilean telethon, a fundraising campaign for handicapped children. In 2008, he became the first individual to donate US$2 million to the campaign. During the rescue operation of the trapped miners in Copiapó, Chile, Farkas donated a US$10,000 check for each of the 33 rescued men. He also set up a separate fund to collect donations for the miners and their families.
Farkas is also a patron of many other charities, including the March of the Living, an annual educational program that brings students from all over the world to Poland to study the history of the Holocaust and examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance, and hate.
