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Some critics even went so far as to demand the book be moved to the fiction side of the bookstore. In an interview with Smart Money Magazine in 2002, when asked who his Rich Dad was, Kiyosaki replied, 'Why don't you treat Rich Dad like Harry Potter?' This created a fire storm of controversy leading critics to believe that there was no real life Rich Dad, but instead he was a figment of Robert's creative imagination. Once the book hit the New York Times best seller list, journalists began to descend upon the author.

In 1990, his son 'Mike' (Kiyosaki purposefully provided a psuedo-name) took over Rich Dad's empire.Д¬ontroversy Over the Real Life Identity of Rich Dad Later in life, he gave lots of money to his church, to charities and to his foundation. He was six feet tall, weighed 200 pounds, was 5 years younger than Poor Dad and looked like Poor Dad only of a different ethic background. He work long hours building an empire of different businesses and investments that eventually included restaurants, a construction company, warehouses and a convenience store chain. Both 'Dad' supposedly had similar income levels in the beginning of their careers but the difference was in how each thought about and dealt with the money they earned so eventually the businesses and investments Rich Dad owned catapulted him to becoming fabulously wealthy.ДЇrom books, speeches and interviews of the author, the following detailed description was compiled: Rich Dad lived just down the street from Kiyosaki in Hilo, HI, even having the same banker as Poor Dad. In the book Rich Dad Poor Dad, the author describes two very influential figures in his life his highly educated biological father who worked in the education side of the government for the state of Hawaii but never amassed any wealth (Poor Dad) and his best friend Mike's father who dropped out of school at age 13 but through owning businesses and making savvy investments, became one of the richest men in Hawaii.

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An estimated 27 million copies of all the Rich Dad book series are in print, in some 80 different languages and after reading, most people wonder to themselves, 'Who was Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad?' You're about to find out. And yet the author has never fully disclosed the identity of Rich Dad (although in a radio broadcast Kiyosaki interviewed Rich Dad's real life son Alan) and very few people know who the real life Rich Dad actually was. Now, 20 years later, that book has become the best selling personal finance book of all time and its main character, Rich Dad, has emerged as the most influential financial adviser in history, changing the way millions of people look at the subject of money. Would you like to know the real life identity of Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad? Kiyosaki kept it a closely guarded secret since the book Rich Dad Poor Dad was first published in 1997.