Reuters - Carlyle's Rubenstein Buys 1776 Printing of Declaration of Independence

Carlyle Group CEO David Rubensteinon Tuesday paid $632,500, a record amount, for a copy of the first newspaper printing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, according to Reuters. Rubenstein has purchased several historic documents that he has loaned to U.S. institutions, including a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, Reuters reported. Rubenstein, 63, had a net worth of $3 billion as of March, according to Forbes magazine, which ranked him No. 458 out of the world's 1,426 billionaires.

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