#ted-turner

#ted-turner

Ted Turner, thrice married and a notorious womanizer, had many exes, the most famous of whom was his last wife, Jane Fonda. This was also Turner's most surprising relationship since, on paper at least, the two couldn't have been more different. He was a buccaneer capitalist, best known for launching CNN, the world's first 24/7 cable news channel, in 1980. Politically, he seemed an avatar of the boorish New South, prone to making ethnic jokes and deriding his media rivals in 1980 as "a bunch of pinkos."

Turner stated, 'Fifty years aren't up yet. I'd say that's generally the case. The nuclear threat is the most imminent threat. But global climate change and environmental destruction of the earth and our resource base, that's the other great threat.'

Ted Turner changed cable news forever and was instrumental in the success of the Braves, with his investments in the late 1980s leading to a sports juggernaut.

Turner, who is now in his 80s, is still one of the country's top landowners, with roughly 2 million acres to his name, the majority of which is found on 13 sprawling ranches that together host the largest privately managed bison herd in the country, numbering over 45,000, according to his official website.