Jeffrey Lurie

Over the last dozen years, Philadelphia has lost so many billionaires - 10 names in all - it no longer has sole bragging rights in Pennsylvania. Judging from Forbes' latest list of the world's wealthiest people, the Pittsburgh and Philly areas are now tied with three residents apiece with 10-figure fortunes. If not for newcomer Michael Rubin , e-commerce whiz and 76ers part-owner, Pittsburgh would have been first - just as it is in Super Bowls (six to zip). Although more than a dozen billionaires either grew up in the Philadelphia area (like newly listed Valley Forge-born designer Tory Burch , investor/philanthropist Ronald Perelman , apparel-and-entertainment tycoon/philanthropist Sidney Kimmel , and ex-Eagles owner Norman Braman )

The annual Forbes billionaire list is out, and this year Philadelphia can boast just one billionaire owner - the Sixers' Joshua Harris. Harris, who lives in New York but graduated from Penn's Wharton School, saw his estimated wealth rise to $2.1 billion, ranking his fortune at No. 243 in the United States, 704 in the world. Harris, cofounder and managing director of investment firm Apollo Global Management, "saw his fortune increase $600 million in the past year as shares of Apollo, which went public in 2011, rose to new highs," according to Forbes.

ATLANTIC CITY - New Englanders Bill O'Brien and Chip Kelly are old coaching friends who happened to be the Eagles' main targets when management set out in January to replace Andy Reid. O'Brien decided to stay at Penn State after an 8-hour interview on Martha's Vineyard with Jeffrey Lurie and Howie Roseman. Kelly ultimately took the Eagles' job, after first deciding he wanted to stay at Oregon. The Eagles have told us Kelly was at the top of their list, but because he was involved in the Fiesta Bowl, they met first with O'Brien.

THE WOMEN behind the hunger documentary "A Place at the Table" are making the publicity rounds this week - cable news shows, Jon Stewart, etc. But perhaps their most important stop was in Philadelphia a few years back, before they'd picked up a camera, when their documentary was just a hopeful idea. That's when they met Christina and Jeffrey Lurie, the co-owners of the Eagles, who've quietly become kingmakers in the field of documentary film. "Christina and Jeff have a history of helping documentaries that they know can make a difference," said "Table" director Kristi Jacobson.

A story Monday on the Academy Awards did not mention that Inocente , winner of the Oscar for best documentary short subject, had five executive producers, among them Jeffrey Lurie, owner of the Eagles. The Inquirer wants its news report to be fair and correct in every respect, and regrets when it is not. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, contact assistant managing editor David Sullivan (215-854-2357) at The Inquirer, Box 8263, Philadelphia 19101, or e-mail dsullivan@phillynews.com .

LeSean McCoy deleted the Twitter account he used to attack the mother of his child over the weekend. That was considerate of him. Unfortunately, he can't come around and scrub all of our memories, one by one. So we can't pretend we don't know way too much about McCoy, his character, and his personal life. You may feel that this whole thing is nobody's business and so shouldn't be the subject of a column. I would counter that it's the subject of a column only because McCoy inflicted his ugly personal business on the rest of us. When a college football player was very nice to a woman who didn't exist, it became the biggest story in the country.

TO A REGION lately capped by the knees of Andrew Bynum and Chase Utley, dismayed by the failings of Andy Reid and Michael Vick, and held hostage by the egos of Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr, Chip Kelly at least offers hope. He is an uncertain light at the end of what is a short but very dark tunnel. Largely without pedigree - he never coached in the NFL, never coached a team covered by a major media market, ran an emerging college program for just four seasons - Kelly landed in Philadelphia last week in full glow.

THE QUESTION concerned whether Chip Kelly might flee back to college football in a year or 2 if his Eagles tenure isn't going well, the way, say, Nick Saban and Bobby Petrino did in other cities. "I'm all in," Kelly said. "I think it was Cortez who burned the boats. So, I've burned the boats. I'm not going back . . . I'm an NFL coach, and this is where I want to be. If there was any indecision . . . I wouldn't have made the jump. I made the jump, and I'm here, and I'm excited to be here.

THURSDAY'S SESSIONS with Chip Kelly, Jeffrey Lurie and Howie Roseman gave us a little more insight into the stunning turnaround that led to Kelly being named the Eagles' coach, 10 days after telling the Eagles he was staying at Oregon. What seems apparent now is that the matter was never really completely dead. The way Kelly told it Thursday, he wanted to go to the Eagles after that 9-hour meeting Saturday, Jan. 5, but didn't feel comfortable making a life-altering decision under such scrutiny.

The Eagles never wavered. From the moment Jeffrey Lurie fired Andy Reid - and possibly even earlier - the team had one man in mind to be the next head coach. On Wednesday, Lurie pushed all his chips in and named Chip Kelly, the innovative Oregon coach who had been ambivalent about jumping to the NFL, as the 21st head coach in Eagles history. "It was really tough," Kelly said of his decision to leave Oregon as he arrived Wednesday night at Northeast Philadelphia Airport. "I left a special, special place.