L.A. needs a few new billionaires to put on the Forbes list

Same old names make up the magazine's Southern California contingent. This year's list is topped by OC's Donald Bren, at $12 billion, followed by Patrick Soon-Shiong, at $7 billion. Bill Gates was number one the entire list of 400, at $59 billion. Why so few new names? Well, tracking down someone of great wealth who doesn't want to be tracked down is not easy, and, at the risk of stating the obvious, becoming a billionaire is a bit challenging, especially in the worst economic slump since the Great Depression. Here's the rundown:

26 Donald Bren
$12B 79 Newport Beach, California real estate

39 Patrick Soon-Shiong
$7B 59 Los Angeles, California generic drugs

48 Eli Broad
$6.3B 78 Los Angeles, California investments

58 David Geffen
$5.5B 68 Malibu, California movies, music

80 Sumner Redstone
$4.1B 88 Beverly Hills, California Viacom

88 Jin Sook & Do Won Chang
$3.6B 56 Beverly Hills, California retail

107 Steven Udvar-Hazy
$3.2B 65 Beverly Hills, California aircraft leasing

117 Kirk Kerkorian
$3B 94 Beverly Hills, California casinos, investments

117 Steven Spielberg
$3B 64 Pacific Palisades, California movies

128 Haim Saban
$2.9B 66 Beverly Hills, California television