Nick D’Aloisio hit fortune when he cleverly created an app called Summly which helped
to summarise news articles and condense them so that they could be read easier. This proved
to be a very successful app as Apple named his app as the best app of 2012. This drew
the attention of Yahoo, who actually went on to purchase his app for $30 million. D’Aloisio’s
reason for selling his invention was to focus on his education as he was studying at King’s
College at the time. He now actually works for Yahoo as a manager. Selling his app Summly
made D’Aloisio one of the youngest self-made millionaires of all time.
Dannielynn Marshall is the daughter of American model Anna Nicole Smith, who unfortunately
passed away in 2007 from a drug overdose. During the final six months of Smith’s life,
she was the focus of renewed press coverage surrounding the death of her son, Daniel,
and the paternity and custody battle over her new-born daughter, Dannielynn. The death
of Dannielynn’s mother left her with quite the settlement. As the heiress to her mother’s
wealth, Dannielynn received all of it, and was entitled to $49 million dollars after
having been denied a $475-million-dollar settlement from court after her mother’s last husband,
the oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II died, shortly after their marriage.
Knox and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt are the famous celebrity twins of Hollywood stars Angelina
Jolie and Brad Pitt. The extremely wealthy couple amassed their fortunes from Hollywood
as the two of them have acted in numerous successful films over the years. This left
Knox and Vivienne with a huge trust fund set up by their biological parents, Angelina and
Brad. However, Knox and Vivienne even had a part in establishing the fund themselves!
When the twins were born, the paparazzi were desperate to see what the new-borns looked
like. So Brangelina cleverly sold pictures of the twins to People Magazine, which brought
in a lot of money that Angelina and Brad put aside for the twins’ future. The trust fund
is estimated to be around $67.5 million.
The birth of Prince George warmed the nation of Great Britain and the rest of the world
in 2013 as the third in line to the throne in the United Kingdom was revealed to the
world. The Crown Estate is set in place for those who are in line to the throne and that
alone will give Prince George more than $5 billion in property assets. Not to mention
the fact that he will be set to receive $400 million per year so he wouldn’t need to
worry about money at all during his life. Furthermore, Prince George is set to inherit
his dad’s $40 million and his mum’s $1 million. I guess royalty does have its perks!
Blue Ivy Carter is the daughter of singer songwriter Beyoncé and rapper Jay Z. She
is the only child on this list whose inheritance is in the billions rather than the millions.
Beyoncé’s current net worth is an estimated $536 million and Jay Z’s is worth at an
estimated $550 million. It is likely that those figures will just continue to grow.
For Blue Ivy’s first birthday, Jay Z and Beyoncé reportedly spent $80,000 on a diamond-encrusted
Barbie doll for Blue Ivy. For her second birthday, her parents rented out a Jungle Island and
a wildlife and botanical park in Miami and for her third birthday, Blue Ivy celebrated
it with a “Frozen” themed party complete with an ice sculpture. I wonder what she’ll
get for her suite 16? Probably whatever she wants. It doesn’t look like her parents
will be running out of money anytime soon.