(Reuters) - * Kerkorian, 89, was the largest investor in Chrysler before Germany's Daimler-Benz bought it for almost $40 billion in 1998. In 1996, he had launched an unsuccessful bid for Chrysler.
* Estimated by Forbes magazine to have a fortune of about $15 billion, he was born in 1917 in California to Armenian immigrant parents. The youngest of four children, he dropped out of school and boxed before joining the Royal Air Force to fly supply planes from Canada to Britain during World War Two.
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