Ofer vs Blavatnik

Zodiac Maritime and Warner Music Group.

The differences

Forbes puts Eyal Ofer about $0.3B ahead of Len Blavatnik.Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Oct 2026.
Eyal Ofer: inherited and grew it. Len Blavatnik: founded it.
Eyal Ofer is about 7 years older than Len Blavatnik.
Eyal Ofer is from Israel; Len Blavatnik is from United States.

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Ofer

Blavatnik

Net worth, Forbes: $35.8BForbes, 9 Oct 2026; $35.5BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
Net worth, Bloomberg: $32.1BBloomberg, 17 Oct 2026; $40.2BBloomberg, 21 Sep 2026
Forbes rank: No. 65Real-Time list, 15 Oct 2026; No. 66Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
Billionaire since: Not stated; Not stated

How it started: Inherited and grew itJoined his father's shipping business in the 1970s and took it into real estate and banking; when Sammy Ofer died in 2011 the assets were divided between Eyal and his brother Idan; Founded itFounded Access Industries in 1986; Forbes says his early fortune came from TNK-BP dividends and the $7 billion sale of his stake in 2013, and Access bought Warner Music Group for $3.3 billion in 2011
Main source: Zodiac shipping group and Global Holdings real estate, through Ofer GlobalBloomberg's largest items: Zodiac Group ($11 billion), Mizrahi Tefahot Bank ($4.1 billion), Royal Caribbean ($3.2 billion), Global Holdings ($1.56 billion US assets); Warner Music Group, held through Access IndustriesBloomberg names WMG as his biggest asset; Access also holds about one-fifth of LyondellBasell and a majority of DAZN
Companies: Zodiac Maritime, Global HoldingsZodiac Maritime: Chairman; Global Holdings: Founder and chairman; Warner Music Group, Access IndustriesWarner Music Group: Director and vice chairman of the board; Access Industries: Founder
Biggest stake: Zodiac MaritimeStake not stated; Warner Music Group72% owned

Born: 2 Jun 1950Haifa, Israel; 1957Odesa, Ukraine
Country: IsraelLives in Monte Carlo, Monaco; United StatesLives in London, United Kingdom
Education: Not statedAtlantic College, UK (secondary school); Graduate degreeMS computer science, Columbia University (1981); MBA, Harvard Business School (1989); earlier studied at Moscow State University
Parents: Elder son of shipping magnate Sammy Ofer, once Israel's richest man; Son of two university professors; the family emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1978

Giving Pledge: Not a signer; Not a signer
Foundation: Eyal & Marilyn Ofer Family FoundationSupports education, healthcare and the arts; Blavatnik Family FoundationA self-funded 501(c)(3) private foundation
Lifetime giving: Not stated; $1.5BBlavatnik Family Foundation, 17 Oct 2026. 'More than $1.5 billion' contributed over the past decade, per the foundation's site; covers ten years, not his whole life

Role now: Chair of the boardChairman of Ofer Global, Zodiac Maritime and Global Holdings; On the boardFounder of Access Industries; director and vice chairman of Warner Music Group
Successor: His son Daniel Ofer has been CEO of Zodiac Maritime since 2011; his son David is a managing partner of O.G. Venture Partners, and all four children work in Ofer Global's businesses; Lincoln Benet has been CEO of Access Industries since 2006; his brother Alex Blavatnik is its chairman
Public office: None found; None found
Legal record: None found; 2016: US District Court for D.C. (DOJ case at the FTC's request); 2017: US Bankruptcy Court, S.D.N.Y.A consent final judgment in a Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger-notification case ordered him to pay a $656,000 civil penalty, without trial, adjudication or admission. In the Lyondell Chemical trustee's suit, the court cleared him of the fraud claims but found him liable on one of nine counts, a $7.2 million judgment related to a lending requirement, per the Financial Times.