At No. 3 is Terry Fator, the "human jukebox" and season-two winner of America's Got Talent, who is cashing in on a five-year residency at Las Vegas' Mirage Hotel.

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Banco Fator, the investment bank advising the government on the sale, insists that adequate provision has been made for any remaining bad debts, plus any liabilities for staff pensions, tax arrears and other hidden horrors that often come to light when a Brazilian company is sold.

ECONOMIST: Brazilian banks