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Digger sees Cruise transformed into a grey-haired oil baron who has to clean up his environmental mess, and is directed by Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

Before long both the baroness and baron snored contentedly in their chairs.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

“There used to be a lot of barons but now he’s the only guy,” Kuper said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

By the late 19th century, the industrial revolution had produced business barons commanding disproportionate wealth, a newly conscious working class, trade unions, and socialist parties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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

Here, round the King's castle, there were streets—not just one street—and castles of dependent barons, and monasteries, chapels, churches, cathedrals, markets, merchants’ houses.

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