SINGER/SONGWRITER/ENTREPRENEUR JIMMY BUFFETT, who died of complications of skin cancer at age 76 in September 2023, seemed like a representative Florida Man. He embraced a popular image of louche, loose, canvas-flapping, soused insouciance, like the state he helped make iconic. But he was always, perhaps deliberately, misunderstood, with a complicated world of artistic depth and business productivity occluded by a reputation for hedonistic goofiness.
Buffett’s fortunes grew even faster than the state he exemplified. He made ’ billionaire list in 2023. Meanwhile, the state’s gross domestic product (GDP)
