baron

In “Digger,” he returns to serious cinema caked in prosthetics playing an oil baron who causes a global meltdown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

As early as 1859 the New York Times associated Cornelius Vanderbilt with the idea of the medieval robber baron, thus tarnishing the image of the country’s biggest shipowner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 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

Relieved, the baron sat in the nearest chair and tried to wipe his face with a handkerchief.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

In 1826, young Benjamin Disraeli popularized the word “millionaire” to describe the new industrial barons in his novel “Vivian Grey.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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

She also analyzed just how rich the robber barons of "The Gilded Age" are.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Morgan and steel magnate Andrew Mellon were known as “robber barons External link.”

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

Then came Pope Julius, and he found the Church powerful, possessing all of the Romagna, having destroyed the Roman barons, and having annihilated their factions by Alexander’s blows.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli