The Runaway Billionaire

Red carpets are rare in St. Paul, Minnesota. But last summer, Ben Affleck, Caitlyn Jenner, the first lady of Zambia and 1,500 other do-gooders filed into the Saint Paul RiverCentre to raise money for people in countries like Malaysia, Ghana and El Salvador to get hearing aids. Aerosmith's Steven Tyler performed "Dream On," but the gala's ringleader, no doubt, was the billionaire Bill Austin. From under a cloud of white hair, Austin stood onstage, grinning, and thanked his fourth wife, Tani: "You have lifted me higher. You have allowed me to be part of a greater gift, to touch more lives than I ever could alone".