Nelson Mandela

 Nelson Mandela was a South African political activist, anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who had an estimated worth of one million dollars at the moment when he died in December of 2013. Nelson Mandela was President of South Africa between 1994 and 1999. The bulk of Mandela's net worth was earned from the royalties he earned for his 1994 autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom". When his health was better, Nelson was also a moderately active public speaking. Mandela was President at the time he cut his salary. In addition to that, Mandela still gave 1/3 of his earnings to South African children's charities. Nelson was married three times more, and fathered six kids. Only three of them survived his death. Nelson put the bulk of his money into more than a dozen trust funds that would simultaneously benefit his children as well as stop them from further bickering. With these trusts