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1 1 Tom Hicks $41,462,030 2 2 John Muse $30,208,470 3 4 Larry Lacerte $28,742,300 4 9 H. Ross Perot $24,816,180 5 3 Harlan Crow $24,087,440 6 5 Ed Cox $21,832,500 7 6 Gene Phillips $19,800,000 8 13 Gerald Ford $19,289,970 9 10 Mark Cuban $17,603,280 10 8 Jerry Jones $17,343,200 11 NEW Clint Carlson $17,245,850 12 11 Lisa Blue $17,224,630 13 7 Margaret Crow $15,900,000 14 20 Stanford Finney $15,724,880 15 17 Suzanne and Patrick McGee $15,660,300 16 14 John Tolleson $14,944,500 17 12 Steven Aaron $14,216,830 18 NEW Troy Aikman $14,167,250 19 36 John McReynolds $13,319,990 20 45 Billy Don Henry $13,100,000 21 44 Kenny Troutt $13,029,820 22 NEW Trevor Rees-Jones $13,000,000 23 33 Terry Worrell $12,725,220 24 16 Bob Ladd $12,715,810 25 NEW Richard Cheatham $12,520,150 26 61 Nancy Marcus $12,328,170 27 24 J. Baxter Brinkmann $12,197,430 28 37 Phil Romano $12,078,940 29 43 Henrietta Schultz $12,072,660 30 22 Robert Schlegel $12,029,250 31 NEW Malone Mitchell $11,772,430 32 72 Laurence Lebowitz $11,764,430 33 NEW Audrey and Erich Spangenberg $11,548,500 34 19 Trevor Pearlman $11,603,420

35 15 Al Hill Jr. $11,596,340 36 NEW Thomas Dundon $11,384,440 37 27 Vinay Jain $10,948,370 38 42 Clark Hunt $10,716,360 39 return Marianne Plancke and Issam Karanouh $10,639,240 40 47 Charles Wyly $10,638,850 41 return Bill Clements $10,587,310 42 NEW Richard Malouf $10,478,750 43 86 Randall Fojtasek $10,372,470 44 76 Brint Ryan $10,325,920 45 91 Michael Bishop $10,298,960 46 23 Joe Garza $9,664,010 47 35 Robert Haas $9,987,170 48 62 Richard Bass $9,981,280 49 NEW James Beckett III $9,813,420 50 26 Mary and Albert Huddleston $9,547,600 51 86 Berry Cox $9,468,770 52 NEW Thomas Neuhoff $9,664,390 53 32 Lee Roy Mitchell $9,538,340 54 41 James Dondero $9,491,230 55 29 John Amend $9,478,400 56 79 Lucy and Henry Billingsley $9,475,760 57 21 Jeff rey Heller $9,472,220 58 88 H. Doug Barnes $9,460,500 59 28 Larry Wolford $9,443,700 60 25 Timothy Eller $9,388,790 61 30 Newt Walker $9,214,260 62 57 James Moore $9,095,990 63 73 Cary Maguire $9,062,710 64 87 Stephen McCarthy $8,815,180 65 82 Donald Huffi nes $8,775,640 66 49 Cathy and Ralph Oats $8,769,700 67 NEW James Tucker $8,684,420 68 34 Brooks Reed $8,668,280

69 80 Nancy and Clay Mulford $8,626,080 70 93 Martha and Donald Miller $8,478,690 71 99 Royal Carson $8,472,040 72 NEW Jim Lucas $8,366,190 73 83 G. Houston Hall $8,316,300 74 NEW Doug Rippeto $8,312,800 75 40 William Oates $8,311,160 76 90 Jerry Freeman $8,296,540 77 67 Gladys Carr $8,205,590 78 return Lee Trevino $8,194,300 79 52 Jack Pratt $8,159,140 80 NEW Randall Van Wolfswinkel $8,140,030 81 60 Dick Snyder $8,035,410 82 54 Emmanuel Ubinas-Brache $8,028,800 83 return Debbie and Frank Branson $8,007,330 84 38 Robert Rowling $8,000,000 85 81 John Carona $7,971,170 86 39 Rusty Rose $7,891,590 87 return Diane Gibby and Rod Rohrich $7,835,580 88 return Ronald McCutchin $7,814,770 89 97 William Seanor $7,800,540 90 92 Shlomo Sam Finn $7,761,010 91 100 Mike Mullen $7,748,470 92 55 Michael McCoy $7,630,000 93 77 Harry Longwell $7,619,850 94 NEW Jim Graves $7,500,000 95 return Scott Ginsburg $7,451,900 96 75 Richard Strauss $7,451,440 97 see 54 James Dondero $7,374,240 98 NEW Dorothea Kelley $7,358,120 99 return Trea and Richard Yip $7,304,990 100 53 Stephen Sands $7,275,420

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1 // CINDA AND TOM HICKS$41,462,030On the one hand, the inves-tor and sports team magnate looks to be in trouble: he recently defaulted on $525 million in loans, he’s trying to sell off parts of the Stars and Rangers, and this month the $400 million loan he used to buy Liverpool FC comes due. On the other hand: he lives in a 28,996-square-foot house on 25 acres, and last year he used 10 million gallons of water.

2 // LYN AND JOHN MUSE$30,208,470The chairman of private equity fi rm HM Capital Partners used to fl y higher when he did deals with Hicks (No. 1) at Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. Now, according to one fi nance journal, he has taken the fi rm “back to its pre-bubble sweet-spot in the mid-market.” He gets by with 24,932 square feet on Preston Road.

3 // JOYCE AND LARRY LACERTE$28,742,300The co-founder of Lacerte Software sold his business to Intuit in 1998 for $400 million. As of last year, his house was on the market for $45 million. As of this May, he was using its 23,151 square feet and 10 full bathrooms to throw a dinner party for DSO conductor Jaap van Zweden.

4 // H. ROSS PEROT$24,816,180Forbes says the pie-chart-lov-ing founder of EDS and Perot Systems is No. 68 on the list of richest Americans, with $5 billion. His family’s $2.5 billion Parkcentral Global Hub hedge fund evaporated in late 2008. His spread stretches across two lots, from Strait Lane to Inwood Road.

5 // HARLAN CROW$24,087,440The real estate mogul and son of Trammell Crow (No. 13) fi nanced the eff ort to quash the city-owned convention center hotel.

6 // ED COX$21,832,500The oilman and investor gave his name and part of his fortune to SMU’s business school.

7 // ROXANNE AND GENE PHILLIPS$19,800,000His might be the most inter-esting CV on this list. At his website, genephillips.org, you can read about his real estate ventures in South Korea and about his successful Balkan Energy Company. For fun, though, you should google his name along with the terms “mafi a” and “indicted.” He lives on 14.2 acres next door to Hicks (No. 1) and George W. Bush.

8 // GERALD FORD$19,289,970Forbes puts the banker at No. 355 on its list of richest Americans, with $1.4 billion. With Ronald Perelman, he sold Golden State Bancorp in 2002 to Citigroup for $6 bil-lion. SMU’s football stadium bears his name. And he owns Diamond A Racing, which bred the Kentucky Derby’s eighth-place horse, Regal Ransom.

9 // MARK CUBAN$17,603,280Forbes says the owner of the Mavericks is worth $2.6 billion, putting him at No. 161 on the list of richest Americans. On the Internet, there are pictures of his hip-replacement scar.

10 // GENE AND JERRY JONES$17,343,200Forbes puts his net worth at $1.4 billion, tying the Cowboys owner with Hicks at No. 355 on its list. His Preston Road house is right down the street from Crow’s (No. 5).

11 // NANCY AND CLINT CARLSON $17,245,850According to the DMN, in 2007 the president and CIO of hedge fund fi rm Carlson Capi-tal paid about $20 million for TV entrepreneur Jim Hoak’s University Park house. His spread includes two lots.

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12 // LISA BLUE$17,224,630The trial lawyer was married to law partner Fred Baron, who died from cancer last year. Her house, a site of many Democratic fundraisers, has its own website. Baronhoused-allas.com describes the style of the 15,254-square-foot home as “English Regency sifted through American Federal.”

13 // MARGARET CROW$15,900,000She was married for 66 years to Trammell Crow, who died in January. He founded the Trammell Crow Co., which in his lifetime built 100 million square feet of com-mercial buildings and shaped the Dallas we know today.

14 // MARY CLARE AND STANFORD FINNEY$15,724,880The head of brokerage fi rm Spy-Glass Trading resigned last year from the board of cancer drug maker Genitope, which was sub-sequently delisted from NASDAQ. Oddly, according to appraisal district records, his 14,215-square-foot home has fi ve fi replaces but no bedrooms.

15 // SUZANNE AND PATRICK MCGEE$15,660,300The co-founder of private equity fi rm Brazos Partners (see Ran-dall Fojtasek, No. 43) is married to Perot’s daughter (No. 4). Prior to Brazos, he was a principal at Hicks, Muse (Nos. 1 and 2).

16 // DEBBIE AND JOHN TOLLESON$14,944,500The founder of First USA (merged with Bank One) now runs Tolle-son Wealth Management, whose website notes: “For parents and children alike, substantial wealth raises questions and challenges few would ever anticipate.”

17 // CAROL AND STEVEN AARON$14,216,830The CEO of refrigerated trucking company Stevens Transport runs the 32nd-largest private company in Dallas, with 2008 revenues of $574 million.

18 // RHONDA AND TROY AIKMAN$14,167,250The former Cowboys quarter-back and current TV broadcaster has lived in a Highland Park home for some time that would put him at the bottom of this list. But he recently bought the adjacent house from low-income developer Brian Potashnik, ensnared in the Dallas City Hall corruption case. Are these merely two separate houses? Or do they comprise a giant Aikman compound? For now, we go with the latter.

19 // JOHN MCREYNOLDS$13,319,990The director of natural gas pipe-line outfi t Energy Transfer owns Chateau de Triomphe, the 73,000-square-foot Strait Lane mansion destroyed in a 2002 blaze.

20 // CHERYL AND BILLY DON HENRY$13,100,000According to appraisal district records, the CEO of commercial insurer McQueary Henry Bowles

Troy does not have a wet bar in his 11,846-square-foot house.

21 // LISA AND KENNY TROUTT$13,029,820Forbes puts his worth at $1.3 bil-lion, tying him for spot No. 377 on the list of richest Americans. He founded MLM fi rm Excel Com-munications in 1988 and sold it 10 years later for $3.5 billion. Half his home’s value lies in his 4.36 acres on Strait Lane.

22 // JAN AND TREVOR REES-JONES$13,000,000Forbes pegs him at $2 billion, putting him at No. 227 on the list of richest Americans. His Chief Oil & Gas was one of the fi rst to drill in the Barnett Shale and sold to Devon Energy and Crosstex Energy in 2006 for $2.6 billion. In 2008, Quicksilver Resources bought more Barnett assets owned by Hillwood and Chief for $1.3 billion, netting Rees-Jones $400 million. Last year, he donated $25 million to Parkland. He bought his Turtle Creek Boule-vard home from B. Edward Ewing, founder of buyout fi rm Ewing Management Group.

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23 // SHARON AND TERRY WORRELL$12,725,220The founder of Sound Ware-house now runs Worrell Invest-ments, a real estate investment company, and is a director of Titanium Metals Corporation and chemical company NL Industries. His servants quar-ters measure 2,450 square feet.

24 // TRUDY AND BOB LADD$12,715,810The co-founder of Duncan-ville’s Quality Cabinets sold out to Masco and eventually retired in 2004. The next year, he came out of retirement to become the CEO of Arling-ton-based Choice Homes—just in time for the mortgage meltdown.

25 // TRACY AND RICHARD CHEATHAM$12,520,150 The publicity shy oilman worked at Hunt Oil and is now associated with Tsar Energy—if LinkedIn is to be believed, his wife Tracy owns the company. The Cheathams bought their house from Westcott Com-munications entrepreneur Carl Westcott and his wife Jimmy. (In 2007, the house was on the market for $16.9 million.)

26 // NANCY MARCUS$12,328,170The ex-wife of Marcus Cable founder Jeff rey got to keep the house. The divorce also cost Jeff rey an ambassadorship to Brussels. In 2003, four days after being sworn in to the post, he was forced to resign.

27 // J. BAXTER BRINKMANN$12,197,430The founder of Brinkmann Corp., maker of outdoor grills and many other consumer products, is a large Frisco landowner. His spread includes two lots off Jourdan Way, and it overlooks a pond.

28 // PHIL ROMANO$12,078,940Though he’s known as a res-taurateur (Fuddrucker’s, Maca-roni Grill, Eatzi’s, etc.), he made his fi rst fortune by investing in a heart stint invention. His appraisal jumped $4 million, perhaps because he has his

Strait Lane home on the mar-ket for $17.5 million.

29 // HENRIETTA SCHULTZ$12,072,660The 93-year-old is associated with Dallas-based oil and gas fi rm Schultz Companies. Her Park Lane home is 14 years younger than she is.

30 // MYRNA AND ROBERT SCHLEGEL$12,029,250The Canadian native and CEO of concrete landscape brick maker Pavestone can’t be pleased with his higher appraisal, especially consid-ering that the FTC earlier this year kiboshed the planned $540 million sale of his com-pany. The 19,223-square-foot house sits on 4.3 acres.

31 // AMY AND MALONE MITCHELL$11,772,430The chairman of Alberta-based oil and gas explorer TransAt-lantic Petroleum Corporation bought Lamar Hunt’s house. Last summer, he donated $57 million to Oklahoma State University.

32 // LAURENCE LEBOWITZ$11,764,430The chairman of hedge fund fi rm HBK and his wife Naomi live in a 12,057-square-foot home on Strait Lane.

33 // AUDREY AND ERICH SPANGENBERG $11,548,500See profi le at left.

34 // ELAINE AND TREVOR PEARLMAN$11,603,420The toxic tort lawyer founded private equity fi rm Tregan Part-ners, then launched Las Vegas development company Edge Group, which bought the Bour-bon Street hotel in 2004 and sold it to Harrah’s a year later for $40 million profi t. In 2007, Edge cancelled its planned W Las Vegas Hotel.

Audrey and Erich Spangenberg$11,548,500erich spangenberg made his money the old-fashioned way: he sued the hell out of anyone within reach. Erich made his bones wringing money from patent portfolios, suing anyone remotely con-nected to the patents he bought and by forging licensing deals under the threat of lawsuit.

Audrey runs a fi rm called Acclaim Financial Group, which owns a small money-losing software company called FirePond. But Acclaim also owns a patent holding company that used to be named Plutus, after the Greek god of wealth, but which last year changed its name to TechDev Holdings. That’s where the action is.

In the business, they are called “patent trolls.” They buy patent rights but don’t actually use the technology—they just sue others who do. The Spangenbergs run a thicket of shell companies like TechDev out of the small town of Marshall, Texas. In the last fi ve years, those companies have fi led scores of patent suits against hundreds of com-panies. Most of their suits are fi led in the Eastern District of Texas, to which Marshall belongs. The venue is considered friendly to patent plaintiffs. As one example of the Spangenbergs’ legal wranglings, they are both currently suing Google—he for patent infringement, she for trademark infringement. Court records show that the Spangenbergs have scored more than $72 million in such suits since October 2007 (not including a $34 million verdict they won in a 2007 trial against Hyundai but which is on appeal).

Not that it’s been all good for the Spangenbergs. After Erich won a big settlement from DailmerChrysler with the condition he not sue again, one of his shell corporations did just that. DailmerChrysler hit back hard and got a $4 million ruling against him.

When she’s not in court, Audrey is active in Dallas philanthropic work, running the Spangenberg Family Foundation, which works for the benefi t of children’s education and medical research.

The couple bought their home from Altsys founder Kevin Crowder.

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3635 // AL HILL JR.$11,596,340The grandson of H.L. Hunt (see Amend, No. 55) is a for-mer tennis ace and dater of Bond girls. A well-publicized lawsuit fi led against him and other Hunt family members by his son Al Hill III did not stop the sale of Hunt Petro-leum last year to XTO Energy for $4.2 billion.

36 // THOMAS DUNDON$11,384,440See profi le at right.

37 // KANIKA AND VINAY JAIN$10,948,370The Baylor doctor is an authority on malignant lym-phomas and founded CURE magazine, with a circulation of 425,000, and Physicians’ Education Resource, the country’s leading oncology education company.

38 // TAVIA AND CLARK HUNT$10,716,360The chairman of Hunt Sports Group (K.C. Chiefs, FC Dallas) is the grandson of H.L. Hunt (see Amend, No. 55) and son of Lamar Hunt (see Mitchell No. 31). Barrett Wissman, his partner in hedge fund fi rm HFV Management, pled guilty in April to felony securities fraud and agreed to pay a $12 million fi ne. His wife Tavia was Miss Kansas ’93. The couple’s estate sits on two lots in High-land Park.

39 // MARIANNE PLANCKE AND ISSAM KARANOUH$10,639,240The couple operates Plano-based Intermandeco, one of the largest residential developers in the area. Their estate climbs the list because the appraisal jumped and because we’ve accounted for their two lots, which total 4 acres on Strait Lane. Their 12,984-square-foot Italian villa has a 3,423-square-foot garage.

40 // DEE AND CHARLES WYLY$10,638,850He made billions in comput-ers with brother Sam (whose $6.5 million house misses the cut) and founded craft store

Michaels. In Senate hearings last summer, the brothers drew fi re for their creative use of off shore tax shelters. Perhaps some of the savings made possible the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre.

41 // RITA AND BILL CLEMENTS$10,587,310The former governor of Texas made his money in oil, founding SEDCO, which was at the time the world’s largest off shore driller. George Bayoud, one of his former secretaries of state, told the Aus-tin American-Statesman in May that the 92-year-old Clements is spry and still driving. His two lots on Turtle Creek Boulevard abut Frank Branson’s estate (No. 83).

42 // LEANNE AND RICHARD MALOUF$10,478,750The head of All Smiles Dental and Orthodontics opened a clinic last year in a Carnival grocery store. He bought his Strait Lane home

from Comer Cottrell, founder of Pro-Line ethnic hair products.

43 // OLA AND RANDALL FOJTASEK$10,372,470The former Hicks Muser (see No. 1) co-founded private equity fi rm Brazos Partners (see McGee, No. 15). He bought his home in 2007 and has seen its appraisal jump more than $4 million since. His father Joe Fojtasek, founder of window and door manufacturer Fojtasek Companies, lives next door to Shlomo Sam Finn (No. 90).

44 // AMANDA AND BRINT RYAN$10,325,920The founder of tax services fi rm Ryan spent a lot of money to lose the May Dallas City Council elec-tion in District 13 to Ann Margolin. He owns a Lamborghini Gallardo and has racked up a number of speeding tickets. The Ryans made the list by building a new house.

45 // ELYSIANN AND MICHAEL BISHOP$10,298,960The founder of Lewisville-based cosmetics company Active Organics runs it with his wife Ely-siann and lives in the only Frank Lloyd Wright home built in Dallas (and the last home built before Wright’s death).

46 // JOE GARZA$9,664,010The bond lawyer is a name part-ner of Garza & Harris, a small but busy fi rm that does work for the state of Texas (among others). He bought the house on Beverly in 2004 for $9.6 million from Mark Bunting, the two wound up in a protracted legal battle over the sale, and Bunting moved into a house just one block away.

Thomas Dundon$11,384,4400tom dundon and his wife didn’t set out to build one of the most remarkable homes in Dallas. They really just wanted a great place for their growing family to enjoy. They wanted a place the kids would want to invite other kids over to, so they would get more time with them. That’s what they told Mark Molthan, the designer who built their previous two homes when they looked at the raw land that consti-tuted their little plot.

Molthan took that cue and ran with it, building less a home than a vacation resort. It features the following: a swim park, indoor-outdoor tennis courts, a baseball infi eld, a dance studio, an automated batting cage (one of their youngest boys was hitting whiffl e balls over the fence at their previous home by the time he was 4), a putting green, a go-cart track, a gym, and an indoor and outdoor slide from the second to the fi rst fl oor. There’s also a stocked lake.

“Mark just did an incredible job, on time and within the budget,” Dundon says. “We didn’t plan on this being so prominent from Northwest Highway. When we saw the frame up in the winter when the trees were bare, we realized how big it looked from the street, and we said, ‘Oh, crap.’ We’re working on growing in the landscaping so it won’t stand out so much.”

Dundon made his money building and then selling Drive Financial Services, a sub-prime auto loan company that was acquired by Banco Santander Central Hispano SA for $636 million in cash in late 2006. Dundon is still an executive offi cer with the company.

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47 // CANDICE AND ROBERT HAAS$9,987,170He started with Hicks & Haas (see Hicks, No. 1) and made millions merging Dr Pepper with Seven Up and selling the combo to Cadbury Schweppes. He now runs another buyout fi rm, Haas Wheat & Part-ners. He has also published books of aerial wildlife photography, including several with National Geographic.

48 // RICHARD BASS$9,981,280The oilman (not related to the Fort Worth Bass clan) was the fi rst to climb the highest moun-tains on seven continents. He and Herbert Hunt (uncle of Al Hill Jr., No. 35; brother of Lamar Hunt) run controversial PacRim Coal, which is working to develop Alas-ka’s largest coal strip mine.

49 // JAMES BECKETT III$9,813,420The one-time statistics profes-sor founded baseball card empire Beckett Publications, which he sold in 2005 for $20 million, as estimated by the New York Times. Last year he bought a newly

constructed home on Preston Road.

50 // MARY AND ALBERT HUDDLESTON$9,547,600The granddaughter of H.L. Hunt and daughter of Nelson Bunker Hunt is married to the CEO of Hyperion Energy, which has plans to build a controversial $10 billion oil refi nery in South Dakota.

51 // BERRY COX$9,468,770The son of oilman Ed (No. 6) married Jeanne, daughter of late Senator John Tower. He was a director of Home Depot until his 2005 retirement.

52 // JUDY AND THOMAS NEUHOFF$9,664,390His family once ran the largest independent meatpacker in the Southwest, Neuhoff Bros., then Neuhoff Oil and Gas. The couple lives in an 8,331-square-foot home on Armstrong Avenue in Highland Park.

53 // TANDY AND LEE ROY MITCHELL$9,538,340The founder and chairman of Cinemark USA lives in a 14,341-square-foot Preston Hollow home with 21-seat movie theater.

54 // JAMES DONDERO$9,491,230Co-founder of Highland Capital Management suff ered massive losses last year and had to shut-ter two funds, prompting a lawsuit fi led by UBS that claimed $745 million in losses. He’s a big-game hunter and once told the DMN: “Giraff e makes very tasty jerky.” Not only does he own this house, but he owns another on the list, No. 97. (Bordeaux, $7,374,240)

55 // TERESA AND JOHN AMEND$9,478,400The head of real estate fi rm Amend Group lives in the old H.L. Hunt Mount Vernon estate on White Rock Lake. The home, with a 16-car garage and a bowling alley, was briefl y on the mar-ket last year for a rumored $50 million.

56 // LUCY AND HENRY BILLINGSLEY$9,475,760She is the only daughter of Tram-mell Crow (No. 13). She and her husband run the Billingsley Com-pany (One Arts Plaza, etc.).

57 // CAROL AND JEFFREY HELLER$9,472,220The former vice chairman of EDS is now a director of Austin-based paper products fi rm Temple-Inland and of insurer Mutual of Omaha. He lives in a 9,480-square-foot home on Lakeside Drive.

58 // H. DOUG BARNES$9,460,500The founder of eyeglass retailer Eyemart Express built a 20,649-square-foot house (not including 6,389 square feet of enclosed patio) that backs up to Robert Haas’ property (No. 47). He took a liking to the walls with windows in them at the Nasher Sculpture Center and had one built at his house, too, to the consternation of the ducks that use his pond.

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59 // DENISE AND LARRY WOLFORD$9,443,700The Baylor craniofacial surgeon implanted a titanium prosthetic jaw in jazz singer Megan Birdsall in 2007. He lives with his wife in a South Florida-style pad on Lake-side Drive.

60 // TIMOTHY ELLER$9,388,790The chairman and CEO of home-builder Centex earned a total compensation of $13.2 mil-lion in 2008. This year Centex merged with Pulte to become the country’s largest homebuilder. Together, the two companies lost about $916 million in the fi rst quarter.

61 // FAY AND NEWT WALKER$9,214,260The real estate broker enjoys not one but two wet bars in his 9,094-square-foot Lakeside Drive home.

62 // MARION AND JAMES MOORE$9,095,990The president of Moore Diver-sifi ed Services, a senior-living consulting fi rm, is also an author. His latest book is Assisted Living Strategies for Changing Markets. His 15,016-square-foot Preston Hollow home with three wet bars looks like a good place to retire.

63 // ANN AND CARY MAGUIRE$9,062,710The chairman and president of Maguire Oil Co. is a self-taught painter and sculptor, and the founder of the Cary M. Magu-ire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility at SMU. For his 80th birthday party last sum-mer, he built a glass pavilion over his Park Lane backyard so that it could be air conditioned.

64 // JUDITH AND STEPHEN MCCARTHY$8,815,180The 71-year-old Stephen McCa-rthy Jr. remains a mystery to us. But his wife Judith we have pegged: every year she hosts a National Scrapbook Day gather-ing at her home, which has an 1,170-square-foot converted attic—perhaps for all those scrap-books, eh?

65 // MARY AND DONALD HUFFINES$8,775,640The co-owner of residential devel-oper Huffi nes Communities fl ew a huge Ron Paul banner outside his Highland Park home, a pink granite “modern Richardsonian Romanesque masterpiece” called Coram Deo that is on the market for $10 million.

66 // CATHY AND RALPH OATS$8,769,700See profi le at right. 67 // KATHY AND JAMES TUCKER$8,684,420The president of Tucker Elec-tronics, a distributor of test and measurement instruments, has a house on Strait Lane next to Richard Malouf (No. 42). It’s on the market for $7.95 million and is described as a columned mansion “inspired by an historic 19th-cen-tury Louisiana plantation.” It was built in 2006 and has three stories with an elevator.

68 // SHERRY AND BROOKS REED$8,668,280Chairman of Bestway Rent-to-Own is also the CEO of Palm Beach Tan. In 2003, the couple temporarily put their house on the market for $13.75 million. It’s on Turtle Creek and has two eleva-tors, a stone bridge, a boathouse, a watchtower, and a soccer fi eld.

69 // NANCY AND CLAY MULFORD$8,626,080The daughter of Ross Perot (No. 4) is married to a former partner at the Jones Day law fi rm. He’s now the CEO of Tom Luce’s non-profi t National Math and Science Initiative. The couple’s estate abuts those of Clint Carlson (No. 11).

70 // MARTHA AND DONALD MILLER$8,478,690The daughter of Charles Wyly (No. 40) is married to investor Donald. Their property is dwarfed by neighbor the Finneys’ spread (No. 14).

Cathy and Ralph Oats$8,769,700after two decades of driving a truck, ralph oats had had enough of the daily grind, of barely getting by. So in 1984, fac-ing college tuition on a single income of $38,000, the Nashville-born high school dropout and his wife threw caution to the wind, and Cathy started selling water fi lters through a multilevel mar-keting plan. The goal was to earn a little extra cash, but within a year they projected an income from her part-time MLM work to exceed his full-time income. Ralph quit driving and joined his wife, building up a network of sellers.

By 1992, the Oatses had something like 687,000 distributors selling more than $1 billion worth of product. The two retired to Florida in 1990, but the downtime bored them, so they set up their own multilevel marketing company, Wellness International Network, which focuses on meeting the vanity desires of Baby Boomers with products promising better health and youthful energy. They hooked high-profi le sports celebrities to endorse their products and their MLM line, and offered the usual MLM promises of expensive cars, cruises, mansions, and bling to those distributors who were top sellers.

The Oatses will tell you—repeatedly—that theirs is a classic Horatio Alger story. But their fairy tale has a dark subplot. There’s been no shortage of controversy over the Wellness International Network’s aggressive marketing of ephedra-based products back in the late 1990s and early 2000s before ephedra was out-lawed, and a dozen lawsuits fi led by two score distributors who alleged deceptive business practices, fraud, breach of contract, and RICO violations, according to a report in Money magazine. More than a dozen of the lawsuits were settled out of court with confi dential terms.

Still, under the Oatses’ guidance, Wellness International Net-work has gone, well, international, and it’s a long way from their humble beginnings. Lawsuits or not, from their corporate head-quarters in Plano’s Legacy Park, WIN is considered a leader in the MLM world and has a corporate longevity that escapes most MLM business models.

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71 // DEBORAH AND ROYAL CARSON$8,472,040The founder of Carson Petro-leum sold to Devon Energy in 1982 is now the chairman of Carson Private Capital and an advisory board member of HM Capital (see John Muse, No. 2). His home sits between Henri-etta Schultz’s (No. 29) and Lee Trevino’s (No. 78) on Park Lane.

72 // MITZI AND JIM LUCAS$8,366,190It appears that last year a mys-terious couple from California bought First Broadcasting CEO Ronald Unkefer’s house on Lakeside. At one point, it was on the market for $15 million. The house was built in 1918 but taken down to the studs and rebuilt over a three-year period, starting in 2000.

73 // MICHELLE AND G. HOUSTON HALL$8,316,300According to appraisal district records, the money manger for the Falcon Fund lives in an 11,102-square-foot home that was built in 2003 and is in “excellent” condition.

74 // VICKI AND DOUG RIPPETO$8,312,800The president and CEO of South Carolina-based real estate fi rm Compass Group also main-tains homes in Hilton Head and Beaver Creek. Over his fence, he can see the enormous spread of Larry Lacerte (No. 3). His appraisal has skyrocketed.

75 // MARILYN AND WILLIAM OATES$8,311,160The founder of business ser-vices provider Global360 sold his fi rm in 2006 for $200 mil-lion. Besides this Lakeside Drive estate, the Oateses bought a pad on Beverly last year (valued at $5.8 million) and a cottage on Dartmouth in 2007 (valued at $1.6 million).

76 // JERRY FREEMAN$8,296,540Just as the car business is going into the tank, the owner of the Freeman auto dealerships saw his appraisal leap almost $2 million from 2007.

77 // GLADYS CARR$8,205,590The 90-year-old CEO of auto parts wholesaler W. Plack Carr Co. likes to donate money to Republicans. Her house on For-est Lane might be the most sin-gular on this list. It was built in 1966 and is 5,234 square feet—but it sits on nearly 9 acres.

78 // CLAUDIA AND LEE TREVINO$8,194,300The famed golfer, nicknamed the Merry Mex, told the DMN in May that he could help Tiger’s game by teaching him to hit a power fade. He lives next door to Royal Carson (No. 71) on Park Lane.

79 // AILEEN AND JACK PRATT$8,159,140The founder of Hollywood Casi-nos is now the head of the Texas Gaming Association, which failed this spring to get legisla-tion passed that would have brought casinos to Texas. He is a hero.

80 // RANDALL VAN WOLFSWINKEL$8,140,030Last year, Builder magazine ranked his First Texas Homes as the 36th-largest homebuilder in the country. Appropriately enough, he bought his house in 2007 from Timothy Eller (No. 60).

81 // ROBERTA AND DICK SNYDER$8,035,410The founder of HVAC manufac-turer SnyderGeneral Corpora-tion sold in 1994 for more than $400 million and now runs private equity fi rm SnyderCapi-tal. He lives in the remodeled former Park Lane home of Ted Strauss.

82 // EMMANUEL UBINAS-BRACHE$8,028,800The plastic surgeon special-izes in hand surgeries and lives on Lakeside Drive next door to Newt Walker (No. 61)—for now. The house is on the market for $9.5 million.

William Seanor$7,800,540if it seems incongruous that a man running a plastics company with just $5 million in annual sales owns an $8 million home, you have to remember that William Seanor’s Overwraps Packing is his post-retirement enterprise, and the man has for years followed the advice that Dustin Hoffman’s character didn’t in The Graduate. At 67, Seanor has more than 43 years in the plastics business, from the United States to Europe. He started at 24 with Mobil and moved on to build Vanguard Plastics, which had plants all over the country and produced carry-out retail sacks. You know when you’re buying groceries and they ask, “Paper or plastic?” That second choice was his company’s product. Four years ago, he sold the 850-employee company for a bundle, retired, and quickly got bored. That’s when he found Overwraps, bought it up, and went back to work.

Seanor wouldn’t call it a hobby. He’s serious about growing the com-pany that currently has only a fraction of the massive plastic wrapping industry. But he does joke that “it keeps him off the streets.” Just how massive an industry is plastic overwrapping? Think of pretty much everything you buy from the shelves in a grocery store that’s not in a cardboard box. It’s a $25 billion annual business.

“We provide fl exible packaging for everything from salty snacks to dried fruits and nuts,” Seanor says. “We’re a small player in the busi-ness now, just 60 employees, but we’re looking ahead.”

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83 // DEBBIE AND FRANK BRANSON$8,007,330The personal injury lawyers run a high-profi le eponymous fi rm and live next door to Bill Cle-ments (No. 41) on Turtle Creek Boulevard.

84 // TERRY AND ROBERT ROWLING$8,000,000Probably the wealthiest man in Dallas, Rowling is worth $6.2 billion according to Forbes, put-ting him at No. 55 on their list. His father founded Tana Oil & Gas, which they merged with Texaco (now Chevron) in 1989 for $480 million in cash and stock. He bought Omni Hotels in 1996 for $500 million. He also owns Gold’s Gym. For a man of vast wealth, he lives in a compara-tively modest 10,838-square-foot home on Beverly Drive.

85 // JOHN CARONA$7,971,170The senator’s offi cial page on the Texas Senate site says, “Senator Carona has been a resident of East Dallas since early child-hood.” Except in 2007 he bought this 12,014-square-foot house with three wet bars on Deloache Avenue, and Deloache doesn’t run through East Dallas.

86 // DEEDIE AND RUSTY ROSE$7,891,590The founder of the Cardinal Investment Company and one-time Rangers co-owner earned the nickname “The Mortician” for fi nding overvalued stocks and shorting them. His secluded home sits between the two Crow estates (Harlan and Trammell, Nos. 5 and 13). His home has a tar and gravel roof, which some-times can cause maintenance issues. IJS.

87 // DIANE GIBBY AND ROD ROHRICH$7,835,580He’s the chair of the plastic sur-gery department at UT South-western. She, too, is a plastic sur-geon and started the Women’s Center for Cosmetic and Plastic Surgery at Medical City. The appraisal on their 20,538-square-foot home jumped about $2.1 million.

88 // CAROLYN AND RONALD MCCUTCHIN$7,814,770The publicity-shy inheritor of oil money is an investor associated with RLMC Inc., which controls a Honolulu-based women’s apparel concern called Step-N-Up. His home’s appraisal jumped about $2.3 million from 2007. 89 // KAREN AND WILLIAM SEANOR$7,800,540See profi le, opposite page.

90 // MARGARET AND SHLOMO SAM FINN$7,761,010The neurosurgeon recently had his home on the market for $12.95 million and then lowered it by $3 million but still couldn’t sell.

91 // TIFFANY AND MIKE MULLEN$7,748,470The oilman famously went hunt-ing for a wife on Oprah in 1998 and is now married to his third. His property abuts Mark Cuban’s enormous Preston Hollow estate (No. 9).

92 // JONI AND MICHAEL MCCOY$7,630,000He did gas deals with Jerry Jones (No. 10) under Arkoma and was a minority owner of the Cowboys. Joni once told the DMN that her wardrobe was 99 percent Escada. The couple lives across the street from Richard Strauss (No. 96).

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