inherited from their fathers and husbands.
date of publication :
Wednesday
10:36 2022-12-7
Last update :
Wednesday
10:51 2022-12-7
The wealth of the ten richest women in the world amounted to $ 387.6 billion. Nine of them got their wealth or started their wealth stories by obtaining an inheritance from either a parent or their husband, except for one who got her wealth due to a divorce settlement from one of the richest men in the world.
According to the monitoring, only three women reaped half of these fortunes, as Françoise Bettencourt Myers, President of L’Oréal, ranked first as the richest woman in the world with a fortune of $75.8 billion. She got it following the death of her mother, Liliane Bettencourt, who was the richest woman in the world with $40 billion in 2017.
In second place came Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, with an estimated fortune of $61.6 billion. In 1992, following her father died, she and her three siblings inherited a fortune estimated at $8.2 billion. billion dollars now.
As for Julia Cook, she ranked third, with an estimated fortune of $ 58.4 billion, which she inherited from her husband, David Cook, who died in 2019, when he owned 42 percent of Cook Industries, which operates in the sectors of industry, refining and distribution of oil, chemicals, energy, and minerals.
Jacqueline Mars, the heiress of the Mars United Foodstuff Group, ranked fourth, with a fortune of $39.3 billion. She owns a third of the Mars Group, which owns many companies that produce sweets and chocolates such as Snickers and Mars. The group also owns the M&M brand and other brands. .
Miriam Adelson came in fifth place with an estimated fortune of $ 31.1 billion, which she obtained from her husband Sheldon Adelson’s share in the Las Vegas Sands company inherited in 2021 following his death.
While Gina Rinehart ranked sixth, with a fortune of $ 27.9 billion, as she works in the field of mining industries, as she inherited the Hancock Exploration Company from her father, Lang Hancock, who died in 1992, and her share of the inheritance amounted to $ 75 million, and since the nineties of the last century, it has expanded Jenna’s mining business is in addition to her investments in media organizations, where she is currently the senior partner in Fairfax Media, the largest media company in Australia and New Zealand.
And Mackenzie Scott ranked seventh with $ 26.4 billion through a divorce settlement following her separation from her ex-husband, billionaire Jeff Bezos, following a marriage that lasted 25 years.
According to the latest updates, Susan Klatten came in eighth place, with a fortune of $ 25.1 billion, as she moved to the list of the richest people following the death of her father, Herbert Quandt, the savior of the famous car company “BMW” from bankruptcy in the sixties of the last century, as she inherited with her brother Stephen in 1982 More than half of the shares of “BMW” company, in addition to regarding 50.1 percent of “Altana” company operating in the field of production of pharmaceuticals, medicines and chemicals.
And the ninth and tenth equally, Iris Fontebona comes with a fortune estimated at $ 21 billion and is the richest person in Chile, as she inherited her husband Andronico Luxik Abaroa’s empire in the mining and hotel sectors since 2005, and Abigail Johnson with a fortune of $ 21 billion, as she was ranked No. 48 among the richest in the world. With a fortune of $ 11.3 billion in September 2010, and in 2021, she inherited her father’s share in Fidelity, which manages assets of $ 3.7 trillion, which made her fortune rise rapidly.