Imagine a billionaire built on duty-free luxury goods who wore a 10 dollar plastic watch, flew economy, owned neither a car nor a house, and carried documents in a plastic grocery bag. That was Chuck Feeney, the man who pioneered the global duty-free industry and then secretly gave away an 8 billion dollar fortune.

This episode follows Feeney from a Depression-era, working-class childhood in New Jersey through the founding of Duty Free Shoppers and the tax arbitrage that made him rich, to his covert transfer of his stake into Atlantic Philanthropies and his lifelong commitment to giving while living.

• Selling tax-free liquor to US servicemen abroad through a mail-order catalog
• The exclusive Hawaii airport concession that captured the Japanese tourist boom
• Secretly moving his ownership into a Bermuda-based charitabl ...