Larry Ellison Was Once the World’s Richest Man.
Now Oracle Is Down Over 50% While He Bankrolls His Son’s Fight to Control a $110 Billion Media Empire Quick Read – Oracle (ORCL) has shed 57% since September, halving the value of shares backing Ellison’s $40.4 billion guarantee on the WBD merger. – Twelve state AGs sued to block the merger despite DOJ approval, putting a $7 billion termination fee at risk if the deal collapses. – Oracle’s capex exploded to $56 billion in FY2026, flipping free cash flow to negative $24 billion despite 93% cloud infrastructure growth. – Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Oracle didn’t make the cut
Grab the names FREE today. On Monday, July 13, 2026, two things hit Larry Ellison at once. Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) extended a collapse that has erased more than half its value since September, and a coalition of 12 states sued to block the $110 billion media merger he is personally guaranteeing with $40.4 billion of his own money.
Same fortune, same day, both directions. From the Top of the World to No. 8 In September 2025, Ellison became just the second person, after Elon Musk, to cross $400 billion in net worth, peaking near $388 billion as Oracle hit $345.72 a share. By July 13, per Forbes, his net worth had fallen to roughly $175 billion, a decline of about $213 billion in under ten months, dropping him to No. 8 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.