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Tamir Sapir
Tamir Sapir ((ロシア語:Тимур Сапир), birth name Temur Sepiashvili, (グルジア語:თემურ სეფიაშვილი)); 1946/1947 – September 26, 2014) was an American businessman and investor from the former Soviet republic of Georgia who made millions bartering fertilizer and oil with the Soviets in the 1980s; he took most of his money and put it into New York real-estate. He was included in ''The 400 Richest Americans List'' of September 2008 (#246), with a net worth of $1.9 billion. In March 2010, he ranked 721st on ''Forbes''' list of billionaires, with a net worth of $1.4 billion.
==Early life==
Temur Sepiashvili was born to a Jewish family in Tbilisi.〔(Georgian Journal: "Georgian businessman's Hollywood story - From taxi driver to billionaire" ) May 13, 2014〕 His father was a major in the Soviet Army.〔 In the early 1970s he studied journalism at Tbilisi State University but left to earn money to support his family because of his father's death. He took a job processing emigration applications for Soviet Jews〔 and in 1973, he immigrated to Israel with his wife around the time of the Yom Kippur War.〔 He changed his last name to Sapir while in Israel and moved to the United States first to Louisville, Kentucky where he learned English and worked as a bus driver, janitor and a loader; and then to New York City where he worked as a taxicab driver.〔 He then opened an electronics store with fellow immigrant Sam Kislin catering primarily to Russian clientele.〔 Eventually he made contacts with the Soviet contingent to the United Nations in New York, and started trading electronics, clothing, and footwear for Soviet oil and oil products which he then sold to American companies.〔〔(The Real Deal: "A Cabbie’s Climb to Buy 11 Madison - in difficult real estate career, Tamir Sapir pieces together big holdings" by Stuart W. Elliott ) March 01, 2004〕 Investing the profits in Manhattan real estate in the 1990s, which was then in a slump,〔 he became a billionaire by 2002.〔(#410 Tamir Sapir ). The World's Richest People, ''Forbes'' magazine.〕 Sapir has been referred to as America's "billionaire cabbie".
Sapir brought a lawsuit in Russia against a Moscow oil refinery after it violated the terms of a contract by failing to transfer oil products for delivered equipment. Sapir won the case in 2005, but received none of the $28 million the Moscow company was ordered to pay.〔(Russia´s Highest Commercial Court Rejects Appeal by Moscow Oil Refinery in Favor of Tamir Sapir´s Joy-Lud ), findlaw.com; accessed October 3, 2014. 〕
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