TOP 10 RICHEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD

1. Francoise Bettencourt Meyers:

On July 10, 1953, Françoise Bettencourt was born. Bettencourt - Myers' mother, Lillian Bettencourt, held the title of richest woman in the world prior to her inclusion on Forbes' list of the top billionaires in the world in 2018. Françoise Bettencourt-Myers, the descendant of the organization's 33% of the business is owned by her and her family. She writes on the Bible and Greek gods among other topics. In a 2015 case, only years before the Bettencourt family passed away, eight persons were found guilty of abusing Betencourt Myers's elderly mother because of their violent connection with the latter. rice paddies Her family and business joined together in 2019 to give $226 million to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris following a horrific fire.

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According to Forbes, Bettencourt Myers has the highest projected net worth of any woman in the world as of november 2022, at $75.3 billion.

2. Alice Walton:

Walton was a Newport, Arkansas, native. She attended Bentonville High School and received her diploma in 1966. She and her three siblings grew raised in Bentonville, Arkansas. She earned a bachelor's in economics from Trinity College in San Antonio, Texas. As of 2020, the richest woman in the world was Sam Walton's daughter, age 72. 50% of the business is owned by her and her brother. Walton, who has held the title of richest woman in the world for more than a decade, is well recognised for her passion for the arts. She presently serves as the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's chair. The Walton family will gain a startling $19 billion in mid-May 2022 when the company's stock price collapses following the release of quarterly earnings, despite being worth more than the next lady on this list only two months prior. considerable losses were incurred. According to Bloomberg, the drop has also been impacted by staffing challenges, inventory problems, and gasoline prices associated with COVID-19.

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According to Forbes, Walton has the second highest net worth of any woman in the world as of november 2022, at $65.3 billion.

3. Julia Koch:

One of the wealthiest women in the world is Julia Margaret Flesher Koch, an American socialite and philanthropist born on April 12, 1962.

Including her three children, Julia Koch, 60, has a 42% share in Koch Industries, which her late husband David Koch created. Up to her retirement in 2018, Koch was the CEO of a $100 billion firm and a conservative political donor. She died in 2019 with an estimated net worth of $50.5 billion. The second-largest private firm in the United States is currently 42% owned by his older brother Charles. The youngest Koch brother, Bill, sold his firm stock in 1983 and established Oxbridge Academy in 2011, the Florida high school that Barron Trump attends. The projected value of his fortune in 2019 was $1.8 billion, while Julia, his sister-in-law, claimed the title of richest chef with a net worth greater than his $60 billion. The New York socialite made her debut as chairperson of the Met Gala in 1997 and is a member of affluent circles. Her husband's charity funded the occasion in the same year.

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According to Forbes, Julia has the third highest net worth of any woman in the world as of november 2022, at $60.3 billion.

4. MacKenzie Scott:

In San Francisco, California, on April 7, 1970, homemaker Holliday Robin (née Cumming) and financial advisor Jason Baker Tuttle welcomed their first child, Mackenzie Scott.

After divorcing the former world's wealthiest man in 2019, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has contributed more than $12.5 billion to more than 1,253 organisations in the last two years, according to Bloomberg. He contributes more than Bezos, the second-richest man in the world right now. She is nevertheless one of the richest women in the world with a net worth of $43.6 billion. Out of the $137 billion she and Bezo spent on divorce mediation, Scott won $38 billion. In the split, she received her share of Amazon shares as well, but she committed to contribute a large portion of her expanding wealth. Her most recent gift to Big Brothers Big Sisters, an American organisation that provides mentorship for young people, was a stunning $122 million.

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According to Forbes, Mackenzie Scott has the fourth highest net worth of any woman in the world as of november 2022, at $43.6 billion.

5. Jacqueline Mars:

Jacqueline Mars is an American investor and heiress who was born on October 10, 1939. She is the granddaughter of Frank C. Mars, the man who founded the American candy corporation Mars Inc., and the daughter of Audrey Ruth (Meyer) and Forrest Mars Sr.

Frank C. Mars, the great-grandfather of Mars, launched the company in 1911. His granddaughter became a fortune thanks to the candy and pet food firm that produces Pedigree dog food and M&Ms. According to Forbes, Mars, who is 82 years old and has a net worth of more than $31 billion, worked for the organisation for over 20 years, from 1982 to 2001. She not only sits on the company's board of directors, but she also owns a horse farm in Virginia where Olympic medalists ride the horses there.

NET WORTH:

According to Forbes, Jacqueline Mars has the fifth highest net worth of any woman in the world as of november 2022, at $31.7 billion.

6. Georgina Hope Rinehart:

Gina Reinhart, née Georgina Hope Hancock, was an Australian businesswoman, political activist, and, following her husband's passing, an iron miner. She was born on February 9, 1954, in Perth, Western Australia. increased impact and interest in the stone market. Reinhart was one of Australia's richest and most influential women in the early 21st century. She was known for her business-focused lobbying on subjects including taxes and governmental regulation. did. The sole child of Western Australian nomad Langley (Lang) Hancock was Gina. She attended St. Hilda's Episcopal School for Girls in Mosman Her Park, a Perth, Western Australia, suburb, for her education, and she also took a short course in economics at the University of Sydney. She started working as her father's personal assistant in 1973 when she was prospecting for Hancock. Hancock When he made the unexpected discovery of iron-rich soils in the Hamersley Mountains in the Pilbara area of the state in 1952, prospecting got underway. He found that he had unearthed one of the greatest iron resources in the world after doing investigation and testing. In order to produce Pilbara iron, his business finally secured a lucrative licence agreement with British-Australian mining giant Rio His Tinto.

Gina Reinhart, who had been widowed by her second husband, American lawyer Frank Reinhart, when her father passed away in 1992, took over Hancock Prospecting and was made managing director. However, the business's finances worsened and it became heavily indebted. She established a new iron mine in the Pilbara while maintaining strict control over the company's activities. With multibillion dollar domestic and international joint ventures and extensive exploration for other minerals, particularly coal, Hancock has developed under Reinhart's direction into one of Australia's top iron ore exporters. It has grown into a large empire. Early in the twenty-first century, she diversified her interests by acquiring shares in media firms including Ten Network Holdings and Australia's Fairfax Media. Reinhart maintained a low profile and talked to the media seldom, but he made several public pronouncements on matters of government policy, cautioning against excessive regulation and taxes, particularly in the resources sector, which he claimed posed a threat to the country. When the federal government proposed a resource super-profit tax on the mining sector in 2010, she vehemently opposed it. Because to soaring commodities prices and a doubling of her wealth between 2010 and 2011, Forbes magazine named Reinhart Australia's richest person in February 2011. proposed to A woman had never previously held this job.

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According to Forbes, Gina Reinhart has the sixth highest net worth of any woman in the world as of november 2022, at $30.2 billion.

7. Miriam Adelson:

Miriam Adelson, a medical professional and multibillionaire, was born in Israel on October 10, 1945. She started supporting conservative political causes in Israel and the United States after becoming married to American millionaire Sheldon Adelson in 1991. event, his legal defence fund against Special Counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into Russian meddling, and the 2020 election cycle. She presently serves as the newspaper Israel Hayom's editor. She also has a vote on the University of Southern California's Board of Trustees. The Woodrow Wilson International Scholar Center of the Smithsonian Institution presented the 2008 Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship to Miriam and Sheldon Her Adelson. She was granted honorary citizenship in Jerusalem in 2013. In 2018, Donald Trump gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as of June 2021, Adelson is the world's 44th richest person, the 5th richest woman, and the richest Israeli, due to her control over Las Vegas Sands. It is thought to be worth $26.6 billion on the whole.

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According to Forbes, Miriam Adelson has the seventh highest net worth of any woman in the world as of november 2022, at $27.5 billion.

8. Susanne Klatten:

In the German city of Bad Homburg, Susanne Klatten was born. She spent the years 1981 to 1983 working in Frankfurt for the advertising firm Young & Rubicam after earning her business administration degree. She then finished her MBA with a focus on advertising at her IMD in Lausanne after earning her degree in marketing and management from Buckingham University. She received a 50.1% ownership interest in the pharmaceutical and chemical business Altana upon her father's passing. She joined the Altana board of directors and contributed to elevating Altana to the top of the German DAX Top 30 Companies list. Atlanta AG sold its pharmaceutical division to Nycomed for $5 billion in 2006. He solely has expertise in the chemical industry. Dividends to stockholders totaled $5 billion. Klatten continued to be a significant stakeholder in Altana and the company was kept on the stock exchange. She acquired nearly all of the Altana shares she did not already hold in 2009. 12.50% of her father's BMW was left to her. She and her brother, Stephen Kwant, were both appointed to their respective BMW Supervisory Boards in 1997.

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According to Forbes, Susanne Klatten has the eighth highest net worth of any woman in the world as of november 2022, at $24.3 billion.

9. Iris Fontbona:

Iris Fontbona was born in 1942 or 1943 and is a Chilean mining magnate, media mogul, and billionaire businessman. She is the richest person in Chile, and according to Forbes, she will rank third in wealth in Latin America and ninth in the globe in 2022. Antofagasta is a mining corporation situated in Santiago that is controlled by Fontbona and her family. They have influence of Madeco, a manufacturer of copper goods, Bank of Chile, the largest brewery in the nation, and CSAV, a shipping firm, through the publicly traded corporation Quienco. CSAV is ranked as the 16th largest shipping firm in the world by TEU. She had 65% of Antofagasta's power in 2013.

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According to Forbes, Iris Fontbona has the ninth highest net worth of any woman in the world as of november 2022, at $23.3 billion.

10. Abigail Johnson:

The late Edward C. Johnson II's granddaughter and American entrepreneur Abigail Pierpont Johnson was born on December 19, 1961. She is credited with starting Fidelity Investments. Johnson has served as the chairman of its worldwide former sibling business, Fidelity International, and the president and CEO of US investment firm Fidelity Investments (FMR) since her appointment in 2014. (FIL). increase. Edward C. Johnson II, her grandfather, created Fidelity. Until his passing in March 2022, her father, Edward C. "Ned" Johnson III, served as honorary chairman of FMR. The Johnson family owned 49% of the privately held corporation as of March 2013, and Johnson himself owned an estimated 24.5% of it. Johnson was given complete authority over the 45,000 personnel working for Fidelity throughout the world when he was named Chairman in November 2016. He also kept his positions as CEO and President. Johnson is one of the wealthiest women in the world with a net worth of over $22.6 billion. She was on Forbes' 2016 list of the "Richest People in Her 50 Biggest Cities in America," and she came in sixth place on the list of "Powerful Women" in 2021. As of 2020, she was the wealthiest individual in Massachusetts.

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According to Forbes, Abigail Johnson has the tenth highest net worth of any woman in the world as of november 2022, at $18.7 billion.