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David Ellison’s Net Worth in 2026, and What He Stands to Inherit

Updated 29 Oct 2026
$186.5bn
Larry Ellison · Forbes, 29 Oct 2026

Forbes puts Larry Ellison at $186.5bn and says nearly all of it is still his. It puts David’s own wealth above $1bn. Fortune reports Larry pledged 95% of his wealth to charity through the Giving Pledge in 2010.

Studio voting control
77.5% for the family, nearly all of it David’sForbes
Larry’s Oracle stake
Roughly 40%Forbes
Larry’s children
FourForbes
Pledged for loans
$56.6bn of Oracle sharesForbes

Timeline

  1. Larry Ellison signs the Giving Pledge. Fortune

  2. Paramount merges with David’s Skydance in a deal valued at nearly $28bn. Forbes

  3. Larry becomes the second person ever worth more than $400bn. Forbes

  4. The company, renamed Skydance, closes its roughly $110bn takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Forbes

  5. Bloomberg reports the Ellisons put about $17bn into the takeover. Bloomberg

Changelog · last reviewed 29 Oct 2026
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