THE RICHEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD - CBS NEWS
THE RICHEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD
Net worth: $89.1billion
French L'Oréal heiress
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is the richest woman in the world, according to
Forbes.
She is No. 12 on the list of
the world's richest people.
Net worth: $61.9 billion
Alice Walton is the daughter
of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
She is an avid art collector
and founded Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Net worth (with family): $60.2 billion
Julia Flesher Koch was the
richest woman in the world from 2019 to 2020.
Her husband, chemical
engineering magnate and political donor David Koch, died in August of 2019.
Net worth: $56.4 billion
MacKenzie Scott, formerly
MacKenzie Bezos, joined Twitter on April 4, 2019 to announce that she would
retain control of 25% of the former couple's shares in Amazon after her divorce from Amazon founder
Jeff Bezos.
Since then, she's donated billions to charity.
Net worth: $46.9 billion
Jacqueline Mars (center) is
the daughter of Forrest Mars, Sr., and heiress to the Mars family
fortune.
She's the aunt of the younger
Mars sisters.
Net worth: $26.3 billion
Abigail Johnson has served as
the CEO of Fidelity Investments since
2014.
Her grandfather, Edward C.
Johnson II, founded the company in 1946.
Net worth: $25.3 billion
In January 2021, billionaire Sheldon Adelson died at 87. Now, his widow
is listed as one of the richest women on earth.
In 2018, then President
Donald Trump presented Miriam Adelson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
during a ceremony at the White House.
Net worth: $23.5 billion
Yang Huiyan of China is the
wealthiest woman in Asia.
She received a majority stake
in Country Garden Holdings, a real estate development company, from her father
in 2007.
Net worth: $22.2 billion
Laurene Powell Jobs is the widow of Apple
co-founder Steve Jobs.
In 2004, she founded the
Emerson Collective, an LLC that focuses on social justice issues and
immigration reform.
Net worth: $21.7 billion
Susanne Klatten is
a German heiress.
Klatten inherited large
stakes in many companies — including BMW and pharmaceutical manufacturer Altana
— when her father died in 1982.
Net worth: $20.7 billion
Elaine T. Marshall holds an
estimated 15% stake in Koch Industries.
She inherited the stake when
her husband, E. Pierce Marshall, died in 2006.
Net worth: $20.1 billion
Iris Fontbona inherited her
wealth when her husband, Andrónico Luksic Abaroa, died in 2005.
Fontbona is the wealthiest
person in Chile.
Net worth: $17.9 billion
Gina Rinehart is an
Australian mining heiress and chairperson of Hancock Prospecting.
Her father, who founded the
company, died in 1992.
Net worth: $17.3 billion
Sara Mota de Larrea is the
widow of Jorge Larrea, the founder of mining company Grupo México.
Jorge Larrea had been known
as Mexico's "copper king" until his death in 1999.
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