If there’s one thing that’s clear from Wilbur Ross’s financial disclosure forms, it’s that the billionaire nominee for Secretary of Commerce lives in a world most Americans can only fantasize about.
His many holdings include at least $150 million in cash accounts. He has a collection of art worth somewhere north of $50 million. How far north, we don’t know: $50 million is the highest category in the federal government’s disclosure forms. (Forbes magazine said a few years ago that Ross’s art collection was worth three times that much. He likes to collect Magrittes.)
Bloomberg.com?estimates Ross’s net worth at $2.9 billion.
His namesake firm, W.L. Ross and Co., also has a major stake in Diamond S Shipping’s fleet of 12 crude-oil tankers and 33 refined-product tankers. While the crude-oil vessels Ross co-owns are too large to enter Puget Sound, several of his tankers make port calls in Puget Sound and sail through Washington state waters as they carry Canadian petroleum products from refineries in Vancouver, British Columbia.
