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Patriarch and oil baron Ed Doheny and wife Estelle acquired the home in 1901 and the Doheny family made it their home for nearly 60 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Adora is also in possession of “one of the weirder jobs”: a fellowship from the partially paralyzed, mind-bogglingly rich descendant of a steel baron to provide moral training to his spoiled, acquisitive preteen twin sons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Cruise was at CinemaCon earlier in the week to preview a very different film, Digger, in which he plays a grey-haired oil baron who has to clean up his environmental mess.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

Not because Mullin, a wealthy plumbing baron from Oklahoma who’s served in Washington since 2013, has a distinguished legislative record.

From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2026

There was nothing particularly likable about the baron, but she found him far preferable to his wife.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Other professors had the ear of cabinet ministers and press barons and sat on royal commissions that shaped this or that national policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The ruthless machinations of Gilded Age robber barons are transposed to New York’s hotels and banquet rooms—a story of love marketed to the highest bidder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Clark did not outline how a "brake pedal" for AI research and development could be created, but drew a parallel between AI and the oil boom and barons of the turn of the last century.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

It’s a concept historically antithetical to California, long boosted as the land of today and tomorrow by everyone from the Mission fathers to orange barons, developers to politicians.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

These two conservative barons had never yielded to Arthur, and they did not believe in any form of government except the rule of force.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White