Then he was 61 years old. At that time, heart transplant operations were performed infrequently, and the risk that someone else's heart would not take root in an elderly patient was high. However, everything went well, and a new heart began to beat in the billionaire's chest. And a week later, according to eyewitnesses, he already went for a morning run.
The main problem with transplantation is the rejection of the organ by the immune system. As with any transplant, the patient has to take immunosuppressive drugs. Today, the life expectancy of people after a heart transplant is estimated at more than 10 years.
Over the next 40 years, Rockefeller, according to media estimates, underwent six more operations.
The news of one of the latest operations spread throughout the media in 2015 - they wrote that Rockefeller had a sixth heart transplanted. The original source of the fake news was a publication that published fictitious notes.
Rockefeller received his last heart quite recently, at the end of 2016.
The previous one stopped functioning just a week after doctors warned the billionaire about organ wear.
Rockefeller did not talk too much about his operations. There are no details about them either in the memoirs or in the press. This is not surprising, given the negative public reaction to reports of the operation itself - people around the world expressed strong doubts that Rockefeller received new hearts in the queue for transplantation, and accused him of having deprived some of the other patients of the opportunity to survive ... Given the shortage of donor hearts, even repeated transplants are quite rare.
However, transplantologists who worked with the billionaire denied the connection between Rockefeller's solvency and the organs received.
In addition to hearts, Rockefeller underwent kidney transplants twice - in 1998 and 2004. It is possible that the use of immunosuppressants, which disrupt the functioning of the kidneys, led to the need for transplantation.
David Rockefeller was the grandson of the first-ever dollar billionaire John Rockefeller. He was the first of his kind who could live to be one hundred years old. Over the years, he managed to visit the secretary of the mayor of New York, the military, the director of the Council on Foreign Relations, the president of the bank, and met with world leaders. Rockefeller has donated nearly a billion dollars to various institutions, including $ 100 million to Harvard University, where he studied.
Because of his membership in the Bilderberg Club, which included influential politicians, bankers and businessmen, supporters of the conspiracy theories accused Rockefeller of involvement in the "world government."
The cause of death of Rockefeller, according to a spokesman for the family, was a new heart failure. The billionaire died quietly in his sleep in his own bed.
David Rockefeller successfully had a heart transplant for the sixth time in the last 39 years, according to World News Daily Report. The operation, which lasted six hours, was performed by a group of private surgeons at the billionaire's and philanthropic family estate in Pocantico Hills, New York. 99-year-old Rockefeller literally a few hours after that was already joking with reporters and said that feels good.
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36 hours after the operation, he allowed the press to ask him a few questions. "Every time I receive a new heart, it is as if I breathe into my body new life... I feel energetic and alive, "the billionaire commented on his condition.
When asked about the secret of your longevity Rockefeller replied that it lies in the ability to live simply. "People often ask me this question, and I always answer the same thing: you need to love life. Live a simple life, play with your children, enjoy the things that you like, spend time with good, loyal friends," the billionaire explained with a kind smile.
He underwent his first heart transplant in 1976. Then, Rockefeller had a car accident, after which he had a heart attack. The transplant was carried out 24 hours after the tragedy, and a week later he was already jogging. In addition to heart surgery, the billionaire underwent kidney transplants twice - in 1988 and 2004.
In the 102nd year, the symbol of global capitalism quietly died. In a dream. But this news became a resounding worldwide sensation.
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A number of Russian media outlets, bloggers, experts hastened to declare the deceased the world record holder for ... organ transplantation. Say, as many as seven times his heart was changed, twice - kidneys! Cyborg…
The story goes something like this: the first heart transplant was done back in 1976, after a car accident. The operation lasted a whole day. Within a week, David was jogging. The sixth operation on a VIP patient was performed by a team of private surgeons shortly before Rockefeller's centenary at his family estate, Pocantico Hills, New York. After 36 hours, the billionaire was already answering journalists' questions. He admitted that he dreams of living for 200 years. “Every time I get a new heart, it’s like a breath of life. I feel a charge of energy and life! " - the American website quoted the titled patient. In passing, informing about the replacement of the kidneys in 1998 and 2004.
This sensation of a site with a tricky name about six transplants in the spring of 2015 was instantly reprinted by many of our media and Internet resources. Some admired Western medicine, others threw thunder and lightning at the bloodthirsty shark of capitalism, globalism, for which they always find a heart donor out of turn. Dooming others in need to perdition. Pure cannibal! That's what it means to be a billionaire! Such transplantation is inaccessible to the common man!
And none of the colleagues asked the obvious question: if after the operation Rockefeller held a press conference, why did the stunning news appear only on a cheap overseas news site specializing in fakes, and serious Western publications and news agencies did not say a word about the triumph of medicine? The fact that this is a fake can be “split” in 5 seconds.
In September 2016, a "sensation" about the seventh replacement of the "motor" appeared on a certain and completely anonymous website. Say, Rockefeller goes against nature and the established rules, becoming the record holder for heart transplants at the age of 101.
These fakes and commentators are procrastinating now. Although in the large obituary article about the death of Rockefeller, which was referred to by our media, there is not a word about the deceased's transplant record.
But why did he live for so long, you ask?
First, a hundred years is not such a world record now. Second, the rich generally live longer than the poor. Available to them healthy eating, achievements modern medicine... In David's particular case, I believe genes played an important role - heredity.
His great-grandfather William Rockefeller (1810-1906) died in the 96th year. For the 19th century, you see, a very long time. Grandfather, the legendary founder of the financial and industrial dynasty John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937), did not live to see 98 for only a month and a half. He always preached healthy image life, complete rejection of alcohol, coffee, tobacco. Father - John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (1874 -1960) - 86. David himself did not reach 102 years for two months and three weeks.
But his older brother, former US Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, let us down. He died at 70. As the biography says, during a violent intercourse with a certain young woman Megan Marshak. Well, excesses shorten the lives of both the poor and the rich ... However, there is no documentary evidence of fatal sex. Perhaps this is a "duck" that flew to us from the last century.
Grandfather's inheritance
Founded the famous dynasty that has become a symbol of American wealth, John Davison Rockefeller. The first dollar billionaire in human history. John died in 1937, leaving behind $ 1.4 billion. According to experts, in 2010 this state would be equal to $ 336 billion.
Oil brought fabulous wealth to my grandfather. By the end of the 19th century, his "Standard Oil" monopolized the production of "black gold" in the United States. After the antitrust law was passed, John split Standard Oil into 34 companies, retaining a controlling stake in each. And he continued to grow rich. The world's largest public oil company, ExxonMobil, is a remnant of that Rockefeller empire. Like Chevron, there are other reputable firms.
In addition to the oil industry, my grandfather had several dozen railway, shipping, steel companies, real estate companies, and nine banks. He also very successfully married his only son John Jr. to the daughter of the influential Senator Nelson Aldrich. This marriage in the United States has been called the greatest union of capital and politics. When Rockefeller, Morgan and a number of other major financiers later set out to create the US Federal Reserve System (a group of private banks acting as the state central bank), it was Aldrich who slyly "broke through" the idea in the Senate. This is how the Family got access to the dollar printing press.
David was born on June 12, 1915. He was the youngest of the six children of John Rockefeller and Abby Aldrich. Graduated from Harvard, studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science. After receiving his doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago, in 1940 he became the secretary of the mayor of New York. To master the basics of political cuisine from the inside. In 1942 he went to military service... Ordinary. And he rose to the rank of captain of intelligence. After the war, he came to the family Chase Manhattan Bank. Just an assistant manager of the foreign department. Although he could immediately become a big boss. But he honestly went through all the stages of a financial career. And only in 1961 he headed the board of the bank. Made it one of the largest in the world. And in 1981 he resigned. 66 years old! The bank's charter did not allow him to remain in a managerial position. However, David remained the chairman of the Bank's International Advisory Committee. After the next merger, the bank is now called “J. P. Morgan Chase ". One of the leading in the world, in the top ten.
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On the day of David's death, Forbes published another rating of the world's richest. Rockefeller took only 581st place in it: $ 3.3 billion. He's a beggar compared to Gates, Buffett, and other Russian oligarchs ...
Don't jump to conclusions, says Director of the Institute for System-Strategic Analysis Andrey FURSOV... “The Rockefellers must be viewed primarily as a clan. Experts believe that their combined fortune, according to the most conservative estimates, is more than 2 trillion. The Rothschild family has a trillion more. But nobody knows for sure. Not for that these Families have amassed fortunes for centuries to shine. And the ratings of billionaires - so, to the public.
The hero of the novel “All the King’s Men”, politician Willie Stark, did not say for nothing: “Dollars are good up to a certain limit. Then only power makes sense! "
In this regard, David Rockefeller is not an ordinary billionaire, a banker. He led one of the few family clans that have the ability, if not to control the world process, then to direct it. One of the masters of History. The same cannot be said about Gates, Zuckerberg, Abramovich ...
David was considered an influential ideologue of globalism, neoconservatism. He was at the origin of the famous Bilderberg Club of the Western elite, which is credited with the functions of a secret world government. He was a member of the “committee of managers” of the Club, for dozens of years, as long as his health allowed, he participated in meetings. He headed the influential Council on Foreign Relations in the United States, created the Trilateral Commission of North America, Western Europe, and Japan on peace and prosperity, and became its first president.
The family occupies a special place in the world's ruling elite for another reason. John Rockefeller Sr. also did a lot of charity work, founded the Chicago and Rockefeller Universities, the Rockefeller Foundation, donated large sums for science, medicine. Evil tongues insisted that this was how he avoided taxes, and at the same time created a positive image of a philanthropist against the backdrop of high-profile business scandals. The son and grandchildren continued the tradition. David alone has spent over a billion dollars on charity. But it so happened, the Family began to control more and more through nominal funds. important research in medicine, genetics. Especially - related to human behavior, fertility, vaccinations. This is no coincidence. Philanthropist David, a father of six, was a proponent of worldwide birth control. They say, there will not be enough resources for all. With the money of the Rockefellers, the Club of Rome was founded, which promoted a policy of reducing the world's population.
TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE?
So the New York Times in its extensive obituary does not focus on the personal billions of the deceased, but on his role in the world, which cannot be defined by any corporate title. Rockefeller's influence was felt in Washington and other capitals, in government corridors, art museums, great universities and public schools. Everywhere he was received with honors worthy of the head of state.
The Rockefellers came to Russia under Stalin: with great profit they lent themselves to the first Soviet five-year plans, industrialization. There is even a version of conspiracy theorists why Stalin staged his loud repressions in 1937. Immediately after the death of John D. Rockefeller Sr. that year. Say, this death untied the leader's hands. Prior to that, he was forced to comply with certain agreements with the billionaire on the humanity of the Kremlin, restrained his bloodthirstiness. Indeed, John died on May 23, and in the summer the Great Terror began. On June 11, Tukhachevsky and seven other top military leaders of the USSR were sentenced to death. Mass purges in the Red Army started. On June 28, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) adopted a decision on capital punishment for the kulaks. Firing troikas are being set up throughout the country. July 31 - NKVD order No. 00447 "On the operation to repress former kulaks, criminals and other anti-Soviet elements", approved by the Politburo. The system of gulag camps is expanding ...
David Rockefeller personally paved the way to Moscow. I met with Khrushchev, Prime Minister Kosygin, leader of perestroika Gorbachev ... In the spring of 1992, Mikhail Sergeevich paid the billionaire a return visit, negotiated with David in New York on financial assistance of 75 million dollars to organize a global fund and a "presidential library on the American model." Although Gorbachev was no longer president. The USSR collapsed. And why such a jackpot?
In 2003, David presented his memoirs in the capital of Russia. And talked to Luzhkov. But I have not seen Putin. However, the patriarch of the American foreign policy Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State. David's loyal man. He began his career in the 50s just at the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation (where he is now a member of the board). And since then he has been closely associated with the clan. He was an advisor to Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York State, when he went to the White House. After Trump's victory, Henry announced that he was ready to go to the new president and give advice on how to improve relations with Russia. Kissinger, on the other hand, owns the catch phrase: "To understand Putin, one must read Dostoevsky, not" Mein Kampf! "
By the way, last year Kissinger was elected a Russian academician!
An interesting fact. Rex Tillerson became Secretary of State under Trump. Former general manager Exxon Mobil, where Rockefeller shares are still preserved.
WHO WILL LEAD THE CLAN?
David was going to transfer the case to his youngest son Richard, who ran the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. But Friday, June 13, 2014 was truly fatal for the Family. The day before, Richard celebrated his father's 99th birthday at the family estate. In the morning, he sat at the helm of the single-engine Piper Meridian to return home. The plane took off, caught trees and crashed into many pieces. Did the fatal number for the West work together with the mystical new moon, the intrigues of the Rothschild competitors, or the thick fog? The death of his son crippled the health of David Rockefeller.
The patriarch is survived by a son and four daughters.
David Rockefeller Jr. 75 years... Vice President of Rockefeller Family Andes Associates; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rockefeller Financial Services; Governor of the Rockefeller Foundation Trust.
Abby Rockefeller, 74. In her youth, she was a rebel, a Marxist, a feminist.
Neva Rockefeller Goodwin, 7 3. Economist, philanthropist, director of the Global Development Andes Environment Institute.
Peggy Gyulani, 70. Founder of Synergos Institute, member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Eileen Rockefeller Groweld, 65... Founder of the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers Foundation.
Perhaps, the leadership of the clan will pass to one of the ten grandchildren and granddaughters, says historian Andrei Fursov. However, reports that Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg - grandson of David Rockefeller - is also fake, like the "seven hearts transplanted" of the patriarch. The Duck was launched back in 2012 from an Australian anonymous website. And since then, it periodically pops up on the Web.
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Initially, the clan was led by David's elder brother Nelson Rockefeller, a former governor of New York, the vice president of the United States under Ford.
Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller favored young politician Bill Clinton. There were persistent rumors that Bill was his illegitimate son. Later, Clinton himself became the governor of this state. From there he went to the presidency of the United States.
Hillary Clinton started her career at all with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation. Thanks to him, the young lawyer got into a solid commission on the Watergate scandal, she was noticed ...
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DAVID ROCKEFELLER: "ACKNOWLEDGE MYSELF AND AM Proud!"
“For over a century, ideological extremists at all ends of the political spectrum have enthusiastically (…) attempted to accuse the Rockefeller family of the pervasive and threatening influence they claim we have over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe that we are part of a secret political group working against the interests of the United States, and characterize my family and me as “internationalists” who have conspired with other groups around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world if you like. If the accusation lies in this, then I plead guilty, and I am proud of it. "
From "Memoirs", 2002
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Five principles of David Rockefeller: How to get rich and live to be 100
The oldest member of the oldest financial dynasty dies
David Rockefeller died at the age of 101 and with a fortune of $ 3.3 billion. He was considered the oldest member of the Forbes list, but inherited his capital from his grandfather, John. It was he who laid the foundation for the famous dynasty, because he became known as the first dollar billionaire.
The oldest of the richest American billionaire David Rockefeller. At one time, he inherited from his grandfather John Rockefeller, oil tycoon and founder of Standard Oil, a solid launching pad, and he himself was able to earn credibility in the political and financial arenas. He was known all over the world as a banker, neoconservative, philanthropist, collector of insects ... Today we remember what the world knew about him
From private to captain
Although David Rockefeller belonged to a distinguished and wealthy family, he did not escape participation in the war. Back in the early 1940s, he entered military service with the rank of private and in five years of service rose to the rank of captain. During World War II, the future billionaire managed to serve in military intelligence in France and North Africa.
The oldest of the richest
In the Forbes list of billionaires of the world, David Rockefeller was only on the 603rd place - his fortune was estimated at $ 2.5 billion. But at the same time he is in last years was the oldest of the richest people on the planet. It is possible that numerous surgical interventions helped him survive to such a venerable age.
He only had a heart transplant seven times. If you believe the stories of eyewitnesses, then a week after the operation, the billionaire went for a run. Rockefeller's heart was last transplanted in 2015, a couple of months before his 99th birthday.
"No one should be ashamed of making money." David Rockefeller
The operation, which took six hours, was carried out right at the billionaire's residence. “Every time I get a new heart, it’s like a breath of life rolls through my body. I feel active and alive.<...>I am often asked the question: how to live long? I always answer the same thing: live a simple life, play with your children, enjoy everything you do, "said David Rockefeller in an interview.
Philanthropist
David Rockefeller continued the tradition of philanthropy, which was laid by his grandfather. By the way, it was on his money that Medical Institute them. Rockefeller, the General Education Council, the UN headquarters in New York, and the Chicago Institute are founded.
David Rockefeller himself donated $ 100 million in 2008 to expand the teaching of the humanities and financial support for students. And the total amount of donations in 2006 was estimated at $ 900 million.
Beetle collector
It seems that David Rockefeller was not very fond of collecting money. He preferred to collect a collection of ... insects. The media wrote that he always carried a jar for caught beetles with him. His collection of insects is considered the largest in the world.
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation, which was founded by his grandfather, took care of all members of his family. And even VERY distant relatives of the Rockefellers receive 8-10 thousand dollars for life. And this is not 5-10 people. The account goes into the hundreds. In general, David Rockefeller was a well-known philanthropist, the largest hospital in the United States for cancer patients was built with his money, he created a whole network of shelters.
Birth control supporter
“I am confident that material things can make life more enjoyable. But if you do not have friends or relatives, life will be empty and sad, despite everything material "David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller has advocated limiting birth control globally, lamenting air pollution and the growing consumption of water and energy in the world "The negative impact of human growth on all our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly obvious," - said Rockefeller Sr., urging the UN to find ways to stabilization of the population of the Earth.
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And another famous American - Donald Trump:.
American billionaire David Rockefeller passed away today, March 20, at his home in New York. He was 101 years old. This was reported by the New York Times. According to the representative of the Rockefeller family Fraser Seitel, the cause of death was chronic heart failure.
David Rockefeller was not only a legendary businessman (he is the ex-president of Chase Manhattan Bank, but also the grandson of oil tycoon and the first-ever dollar billionaire John Davison Rockefeller). He is also the record holder for the number of organ transplants.
Seven times he had a heart transplanted - there was not a single person in the world who owned eight hearts. David Rockefeller experienced his first transplant in 1976, when he was 62 years old. The last one was in August 2016.
In the medical world, David Rockefeller is such a legend that Russian surgeons are quite familiar with the history of his illness.
The reason for the first heart transplant was cardiomyopathy, a disease that made the heart muscle unusable, '' cardiac surgeon Vladimir Khoroshev told Life. - Simply put, the heart has ceased to function as a pump, to perform its direct function. With such a diagnosis, an artificial heart has not yet been invented, there is only one way out - a transplant.
After the first transplant, David Rockefeller, as expected, took immunosuppressants - drugs that suppress the immune system so that the body does not reject the donor heart.
Subsequent transplants for Rockefeller were done because the donor heart ceased to function: the body still rejected the tissues of the new heart, - said V. Ladimir Horoshev. - Necessary understand that ordinary people it is almost impossible to make a second transplant. It is very expensive. He had such an opportunity. A heart transplant is a very expensive operation. At least 10-12 specialists take part in it, plus analyzes, diagnostics, and donor search (usually donor hearts are taken from deceased people). An operation like this, especially the last one he had when he was 99, costs millions of dollars.
According to the doctor, the cause of the banker's death was not operations, but "a combination of reasons - first of all, age."
As the vice-president of the Interregional Public Organization of the Transplantation Community Alexei Zhao said, seven heart transplants are a unique case, and if the patient did not have a big name and an impressive budget, none of the specialists would undertake organ transplants.
In America, a patient or an insurance company pays for the operation itself, medications, supplies, but the heart as a donor organ is priceless, you cannot buy it. To get it, you need to go through the queue. According to the doctor, it is not known for sure whether Rockefeller went through the line, especially all seven times, but it can be assumed that the famous name and money helped him speed up the process.
So many transplant operations are due to the fame and financial capabilities of the patient, he said. - It is extremely rare for an ordinary patient to have a chance of a second transplant; a third is almost out of the question. This moment is due to a large deficit and a queue for donor hearts.
The doctor noted that a fair turn is a very serious matter.
Every patient has the right to a transplant if there is a vital need, the doctor said. - But in case of organ deficiency, the most optimal recipient is chosen, who will live longer. Therefore, when a person is 90 years old and has already had several transplants, doing another one is impractical from a social point of view and in terms of costs. The heart could get young man who would have lived with him for another 50 years.
It is also known that David Rockefeller survived two kidney transplants.