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These American billionaires also share a few quirks: Microsoft founder Bill Gates  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg   Oracle founder Larry Ellison  dropped out of college. Jeff Bezos  Larry Page and Sergey Brin all went to Montessori schools  where children are encouraged to think independently and creatively rather than following traditional rules. It seems  too  that billionaires really like houses in Hawaii.
As is the case with the richest women in America  the richest people in America donate a lot of money to causes they care about. Some of the men on this list have donated hundreds of millions into research designed to improve human lifespan and eradicate dangerous diseases  such as Alzheimerâs disease and cancer. Warren Buffett  Gates  Zuckerberg  and  Ellison  have gone a step further and promised to give their fortunes away as part of The Giving Pledge  an initiative designed by Buffett and Gates to encourage billionaires to funnel their vast wealth to philanthropy.
6.  Larry Ellison
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison  speaks during an event at the company's headquarters in Redwood City  Calif. in 2014 David Paul Morris-Bloomberg via Getty Images
 Ellison   73 â another college dropout â co-founded the software firm Oracle in 1977. In addition to owning about 25% of the company  he also owns the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai  a sailing team and even an entire tennis tournament  the New York Times reports.
While known for living large (the billionaire owns a 288-foot yatch)   Ellison  started out with modest ambitions.  His  parents  who adopted  him  when  he  was nine months old  wanted  him  to be a doctor  but  he  left school when  he  realized medicine didnât interest  him .  He  moved to California and worked as a computer programmer and a rock-climbing instructor and river guide  according to the Times. At this point   Ellison  said  he  was âpretty happy with  his  life.â
But after a series of jobs   he  became part of a company working to establish a new type of software database. That company would become Oracle  now one of the largest software companies in the world.
 Ellison   like other titans on this list  is interested in extending human lifespan  and has given over $330 million for research into aging and related diseases.
Four-times divorced   Ellison  has two adult children and calls  his  $70 million Woodside  Calif. estate home. However   Ellison âs massive real estate portfolio means  he  never spends much time in one place.  He  owns additional properties in Japan  San Francisco  Malibu  Lake Tahoe and Rhode Island.
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Larry Ellison


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It started when White read a news report that  Dr. Donald Cline  a retired Indianapolis fertility specialist   faced charges for lying when  he  denied  he 'd inseminated unwitting patients with  his  own sperm decades earlier.  He  searched out  Cline 's address online  recognizing it as the location of  his  mother's former doctor. Then  he  Googled the doctor's name. When a photo popped up   he  was stunned:  He  looked like  Cline .
"It was just too similar to be coincidental "  he  says. White had long known  he  was a donor baby  but that day   he  had an eerie feeling  he  was staring at the man who was likely  his  biological father.
Around the same time  Julie Harmon saw a TV news story about  Cline . She'd discovered years earlier that her blood type indicated she was not the child of both her parents. She didn't follow up to find out why  but the report about  Cline   her mother's fertility doctor  was unnerving.
The TV story featured Jacoba Ballard  whose mother had also gone to  Cline  and whose complaint to the state helped launched an investigation. Harmon contacted Ballard through Facebook  and they traded photos. There were striking similarities.
These two women and White recently crowded into an Indianapolis courtroom to hear  Cline  receive a one-year suspended sentence for lying to investigators when  he  denied wrongdoing; DNA tests determined  he  is the biological father of Ballard and another woman whose mother was  his  patient.  Cline  apologized "for the pain my actions have caused" but didn't specify how often  he  used  his  own sperm in procedures â court documents say  he  told Ballard about 50 times.
 Cline 's sentencing  though  was not the end of this story. Instead  in an extraordinary epilogue  three one-time strangers â White  Harmon and Ballard â have forged a kinship as brother and sisters  even as they wrestle with the revelation about their identities. They've also reached out to 21 other men and women  all in their 30s  who've been identified through DNA tests as half-siblings â evidence  they say  that  Cline  is likely their father  as well. About a half-dozen of them live in central Indiana.
Many stay in touch through a private Facebook page  and several gathered last fall for a cookout with their spouses  children and three mothers who'd been  Cline  patients. Others have gone on social outings  shared childhood photos  taken note of similarities (most of the men are over 6 feet tall) and  at times  confided in one another private details of their lives.
Jacoba Ballard was angry when she sat in court in December  describing a three-year ordeal that determined  Cline  is her biological father.
Ballard  37  says  Cline  told  her  mother  he  used donor sperm from medical residents.  She 'd known since  she  was 10 that  she  was a donor child  but in 2014  Ballard grew curious about  her  family history and thought  she  might be able to track down some brothers and sisters.  She  took a DNA test from 23andMe.com  a biotech company that uses saliva samples to determine ancestry and identify distant and close relatives  health risks and physical traits.
Clients can choose whether to be identified in a "DNA relatives tool" that connects them to others. When Ballard's results came back  they listed seven half-siblings  all but one identified by name. Ballard and two others got together  assembled a family tree and realized one common thread: Their mothers had gone to  Cline  for fertility treatments.
Ballard and a half-sister arranged to meet with two of  Cline 's adult children. At first   she  says  they denied their father had been a donor  then said he'd done so in a small number of cases. About a month later  Ballard and a group of the half-siblings met with  Cline  himself  and  she  says he told conflicting stories  finally saying he'd donated sperm about 50 times to help unknowing patients who desperately wanted children.
When Ballard filed a complaint with the Indiana attorney general's office   Cline  responded in a letter that anyone accusing him of being a donor "was guilty of slander and/or libel." At his sentencing  he acknowledged using his sperm. "I was foolish in my actions  and I should not have lied " he said.
Ballard's DNA match to  Cline  was 99.9997  court records show.
The case wasn't the first of its kind. In Virginia  Dr. Cecil Jacobson was convicted in 1992 of fraud and perjury for using his sperm to impregnate patients without telling them.  Cline  was convicted of obstruction of justice for lying to investigators  but a measure pushed by Ballard and others was introduced in the Indiana Senate this year to make it a crime for doctors to treat patients for infertility by using their own sperm or egg without consent. The measure didn't receive a hearing  so it's dead for this session; its sponsor has not yet decided if he'll reintroduce it.
If there is any comfort   she  says  it's in the camaraderie that's developed among several half-siblings. They've gotten together for concerts  an occasional softball game for one of their kids and a few Christmas celebrations. White and Harmon attended the high school graduation ceremonies of Ballard's two children  and the two women speak every day. They laugh about their similar tastes; they even prefer the same order at McDonald's â no onions.
"I went from not having a care to wanting to know everything " says the 34-year-old White. He tracked down a medical school graduation photo of  Cline  and studied photos of Cline's son online  noticing similar facial traits â a round face and high forehead.
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Donald Cline


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Among darts tossed at Sen. Ted Cruz after his Twitter account "liked" a sexual video clip was an allegation that Cruz has backed a ban on sex toys . 
It ultimately was Cruz 's duty to defend the law , each lawyer said . 
Krupkin said : "Cruz in his official capacity as solicitor general supported a ban . 
It gets too close to the line when you say Ted Cruz" personally "did this . 
Ted Cruz did that in his official position . 
We 're unaware of Cruz , elected in 2012 and seeking re-election in 2018 , calling for a ban on sex toys . 
The Post 's tweet linked to the newspaper 's news story , which said , without added detail : "Cruz , a Republican from Texas , is known for his strong religious convictions and family values stance -- and once even supported a ban on sex toys ." 
Earlier , the state framed its arguments for upholding the law in a January 2007 brief listing the names of the then-attorney general , Greg Abbott , and five state attorneys working for the agency helmed by Abbott -- including Cruz , Todd and Davis , whose signature alone appears on the brief and , again alone , on the state 's unsuccessful post-ruling motion for rehearing . 
The New York Post 's tweet called Cruz "the same senator who once supported a ban on sex toys ." 
Cruz did not respond to our inquiry for this fact-check . 
This statement incorrectly suggests that Cruz called for a ban on sex toys while serving in the Senate or otherwise personally held that belief . 
There 's no doubt in my mind that Cruz would have reviewed it in some way ." 
"No ," Cruz said . 
To our inquiries , Todd and Gary Krupkin , a Dallas First Amendment lawyer who represents businesses selling such products , each commented that Cruz supported restricting sex toys but that defending state laws also was his duty . 
Cruz was Texas ' solicitor general at the time , making him the attorney general 's office 's top appellate lawyer . 
In his position as a state lawyer , Cruz helped in the unsuccessful defense of a Texas law barring commercial promotion of sex toys -- an action giving this claim an element of truth . 
New York Post Statement : Says Ted Cruz is the "same senator who once supported a ban on sex toys ." 
So , Todd said , Cruz "defended it . 
It 's a stupid law ," Cruz said , adding that he believes consenting adults should do what they please in the privacy of their bedrooms .
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Ted Cruz