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Jenny Craig
Founder, Jenny Craig Inc.
Estimated net worth: $150 million
Sid and Jenny Craig, founders of the internationally renowned Carlsbad-based Jenny Craig Inc. weight loss system, along with ACI Capital and MidOcean partners, sold the 23-year-old company to Nestle Nutrition in July for $600 million.
It was the latest round of profit-making for the owners of the international weightloss system, founded in 1983 in Australia and introduced in the United States two years later. In 2002, the Craigs sold 80 percent of their ownership for $115 million to the private investment firms. Last year, the...