I haven't heard a peep from anyone in the Wales family, so I have to assume that they understand that it was better that I frame this information in my fair and accountable light than if Gawker or Encyclopedia Dramatica had done it.
Wales' net worth has been surveyed and poked around for years on his Wikipedia biography. All I have done is shed some conclusive light on the subject.
I knew there would be wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth. Nobody spoke up when ArbCom was sleuthing my Thanksgiving holiday travels, and I'm certainly a less public figure than Jimmy Wales is. I don't even have a Wikipedia biography. If you choose to disagree with an AP investigative reporter who says divorce records are not used as often as they should be in the field of investigative journalism, and if you wish to disagree with the Society of Professional Journalists' stance on publishing divorce records, that's fine with me.
Google says there are 90 pages on the Internet that contain the phrase "Jimmy Wales net worth". It's not like this is something I pulled out of my butt.
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