Cargill MacMilan Jr., the heir to the multibillionaire Cargill, Inc. agribusiness fortune, died of natural causes at the age of eight-four. According to Forbes magazine, MacMilan was worth an estimated $2.6 million at the time of his death. Cargill, Inc. is the largest privately owned company in the world, and the MacMilan family holds eighty-eight percent of the multi-billion dollar company.
See Billionaire Heir to Cargill Fortune Dies in Calif., San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 15, 2011.
Special thanks to Joel Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.
