Khalili, World's Biggest Collector of Islamic Art, Left Iran with Just $750 (Around the Globe: Diaspora)

An Iranian-British billionaire with a 25,000-piece art collection and a net worth last estimated at $9 billion says he left Iran in 1967 with only $750. Nasser David Khalili, 64, says his 20,000-piece Islamic art collection is his most prized.