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Ezra Nahmad

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “lebanon -born fine art collector and dealer”. Today it says “monegasque billionaire art dealer and collector of syrian descent”.
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Ezra Nahmad (born 1945) is a Lebanon -born fine art collector and dealer, and a billionaire with a net worth of US$ 1.5 billion. He has four children, including the British art dealer Helly Nahmad , and resides in Monaco . In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated that Ezra, together with his brothers - David and Joseph (Giuseppe) Nahmad and business partners, have built a collection estimated to be worth $3–4 billion.1

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “lebanon -born fine art collector and dealer”. Today it says “monegasque billionaire art dealer and collector of syrian descent”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

lebanon -born fine art collector and dealer

Now

monegasque billionaire art dealer and collector of syrian descent

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