Daniel Ziff Net Worth, Biography and Career

Daniel Ziff Net Worth   $5 Billion

Daniel Ziff is the younger brother of the American businessman Robert Ziff. In addition to their elder brother Dirk Ziff, the three brothers inherited their father’s billion-dollar empire in 1994. Their father was the publishing tycoon William Bernard Ziff, Jr. son of William Bernard Ziff Sr. Dan is a billionaire and is listed as one of the wealthiest men in the United States. His wealth multiplied after he received his own share of his father’s fortune when he made notable investments in several businesses that eventually paid off. More details are in the article below.

Early Life: Childhood, Education

He was born Daniel M. Ziff in the United States in 1973. His father was a Jewish American William Bernard Ziff Jr. His mother, on the other hand, was an ethnic German named Barbara Ingrid Beitz.

Daniel’s father was the businessman who built the renowned Ziff-Davis magazine empire founded by his own father William Bernard Ziff Sr. The company was very popular between the 1970s and 1990s and included titles such as Car and Driver, Popular Aviation, and PC Magazine.

Ziff attended the Trinity School in New York City and graduated from it in 1989. His father served as a trustee at this school. He then attended Columbia University and graduated in 1996 having completed a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Professional Life: Businesses, Investments

Mr. Ziff is simply regarded as a businessman and investor. Truthfully, the bulk of his wealth has come from all the investments he has made throughout his career so far, and as he hasn’t retired yet, he hasn’t stopped working hard every day to continue to increase his net worth.

For this businessman, it all started in 1994 when he and his brothers Robert D. Ziff and Dirk Edward Ziff inherited the family fortune after their father sold 95 percent of his business to Forstmann Little for $1.4 billion and retired. Their father’s original plan was to hand over the company to his three sons but the ambitious young men were not interested in the Ziff publishing enterprise. Instead, they collected the sum of money offered by their dad and went on to establish their own business, called Ziff Brothers Investments, based in New York City. The brothers started investing their inheritances broadly across commodities, equities, real estate, debt, private equity, and hedge funds. They also provided seed money to businessman Daniel Och in exchange for a 10 percent share in Och-Ziff Capital Management which was taken public in 2007.

The three brothers dissolved their company Ziff Brothers Investments in the year 2014 and have been investing independently since then.

Personal Life: Wife, Children, Private Interests

Mr. Ziff married Leslie in 2009. She is a member of the boards of Rosie’s Theater Kids and the American Ballet Theatre. Their marriage lasted a few years before ending in a divorce.

In 2017, he married Brianne Garcia Ziff. The husband and wife are the parents of one child and live together in New York City, New York.

He contributed between $50,000 and $100,000 to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), a former wing of the closed Clinton Foundation.

According to Rob Goldstone, Daniel Ziff was funding democrats and was an architect of the Magnitsky Act at the same time.

Daniel Ziff Net Worth: Salary, Income Sources, Assets

Several online sources currently estimate Daniel Ziff’s net worth at $5 billion. He is a highly respected American investor and businessman who has worked hard to get to this position where he is in life today. While his current earnings, salary, and bonuses aren’t known in the media, Daniel is a reputed investor who has succeeded in life after many years of studying business patterns and investing in the businesses and startups that he felt would turn out profitable. As fate would have it for him, Daniel went on to derive huge benefits from his investment options, and successfully transformed what he inherited from his father into multiple folds. Today, this former co-owner of Ziff Brothers Investments is known to be one of the richest New Yorkers. He is particularly known for making investments in several industries, especially in businesses centered around equities, private equity, real estate, commodities, debt, and hedge funds. His wealth has also benefited from his investment in Och-Ziff Capital management which went public in 2007 and provided huge returns for those that had invested in it. While he has never received any awards for entrepreneurship or anything related to such, Daniel Ziff still maintains his reputation for being an educated investor who, outside his business triumphs, continues to remain close to his community and enjoys participating in humanitarian and political endeavors.