in this video we are going to talk about top 15 richest self-made women billionaires in the world
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future updates there were 328 women on the forbes billionaires list this year up from 241 last year
the women on the list are together worth 1.53 trillion dollars an increase of over 60 percent
over the previous year they increased their wealth by 570 570.7 billion dollars as a result of rising
stock markets around the world here's a list of the top 15 richest self-made women billionaires
in the world let's start number 15 vicki safra net worth sixteen point two billion dollars vicky
safra's fortune was left to her by her late husband brazilian financier joseph safra who
passed away in december twenty twenty with banks on three continents in the gherkin tower in london
joseph safra was brazil's richest man joseph and vicki's four adult children each got a
percentage of joseph's inheritance totaling 7.1 billion dollars vicki safra is a greek
national who has resided in switzerland for many years vicky is the founder and president of the
vicky and joseph safra philanthropic foundation which supports hospitals education and the arts
number 14. sarah moda delaria net worth seventeen point three billion dollars sarah moda delaria
is a mexican entrepreneur and businesswoman with a net worth of dollar ten billion dollars
sarah moda deleria has been named the wealthiest woman in mexico
she is jorge larria's widow and owns 36 of grupo mexico the world's 7th largest copper producer
her family also owns mexico's largest railroad and oil drilling companies southern copper's
parent firm asarco was purchased by grupo for 2.2 billion dollars in 1999. grupo mexico sold
about 800 000 metric tons of copper 90 000 metric tons of zinc and 63 000 ounces of gold in 2012.
sarah and her son german owned 51 of the company which has been hit by strikes and is embroiled in
numerous legal battles grupo mexico had a sales of more than 10 billion dollars and a net profit
of more than 2 billion in 2012. america's mining corporation which operates in mexico peru and the
united states infrastructure a white transporters mexico which owns two railroads and a 30 percent
investment in airport operator grupo del pacifico are the company's three main divisions
number 13 gina reinhardt net worth 17.9 billion reinhardt is the chairman of hancock prospecting
one of australia's most successful private mining businesses which owes its success to the roy hill
mine reinhardt as australia's wealthiest woman lives a luxury lifestyle reinhardt is rumored to
have purchased a beachfront property in nusa for roughly 34 million australian dollars in july 2021
dubbed web house the four-bedroom modern mansion which sits on more than 2000 square
meters and boasts unobstructed views of the beach below was bargained off the market in
addition to mrs reinhart's latest beachfront property acquisition the mining tycoon also
paid roughly 18.5 million australian dollars for a historic riverbank estate in hawthorne
reinhardt plans to enlarge the opulent property after receiving consent from the local council
to create a master suite with a sitting area number 12 iris fontbona net worth
20.1 billion dollars andronico luxe's wife iris font bona built a fortune in mining and
drinks before dying of cancer in 2005. fontbona and their three sons jean paul andronico and
guillermo luxic took over his companies who died of lung cancer in 2013 at age 57. onto fagosta plc
which owns copper mines in chilean trades on the london stock exchange is controlled by fontbona
and her children fontbona and her children also control a majority position in cuenco a chilean
conglomerate with interests in banking brewing and manufacturing onto fagosta's chairman is
jean-paul luccik and canco's chairman as andronico luxic number 11 elaine t marshall net worth 20.7
billion elaine tedimer marshall is a dollar twenty billion dollars millionaire from the united states
she is a member of coke industries board of directors and the widow of e pierce marshall
whom she inherited her post from marshall is often named as one of america's wealthiest women
because to her estimated 15 interest in coke industries following the death of her husband
e pierce marshall in 2006 she and several family members inherited an interest in coke j howard
marshall 2 pierce's father owned over 16 of coke at the time of his death in 1995. jay howard was
famously married to anna nicole smith an american actress and model for 14 months until his death
anna pursued legal action after his death claiming that she was owed money by her late spouse
the legal battle went all the way to the supreme court of the united states twice
anna received no money from either jay howard's or pierce's estates as a result of the situation
anna marshall was pierce's stepmother and elaine marshall's mother-in-law respectively number 10
suzanne clatton net worth 21.7 billion suzanne clatton owns 19.1 percent of bmw while her brother
stefan quant holds 23.6 johanna their late mother was the third wife of famed industrialist herbert
quandt who steered bmw to luxury market dominance clatton an economist with an mba was instrumental
in turning her grandfather's ultana ag into a world-class pharmaceutical and speciality
chemical company clatton is the sole owner and deputy chair of altana which has yearly revenues
of more than 2.5 billion dollars she also owns shares in intrust a company that specializes in
digital identification and data protection as well as sgl group a carbon and graphite producer number
9 laureen powell jobs net worth 22.2 billion laureen powell jobs inherited billions of dollars
in apple and disney stock from her late husband steve jobs an apple co-founder who died in 2011.
she purchased a minority position in the parent company of the nba's washington wizards
and nhl's washington capitals in 2017. she also bought holdings in a number of media properties
including a majority of the atlantic magazine and parted ways with pop-up magazine in mid-2020
emerson collective a hybrid investing social impact and philanthropy organization she created
in 2004 has been putting her riches to good use she established the emerson collective foundation
now known as the waverly street foundation in 2016 with a 1.2 billion dollars gift
the majority of which was in disney stock number eight young we in net worth 23.5 billion dollars
yang wein as a chinese-born property developer and millionaire entrepreneur she became a cypriot
citizen in 2018 and is the largest stakeholder of country garden holdings which her father yang
guojang mostly passed to her in 2007. she is asia's wealthiest woman yang guojang her father
founded the real estate company country garden in 1997 and gave her 70 percent of the company's
shares before its ipo in 2007. country garden's initial public offering raised 1.6 billion dollars
roughly the same amount that google raised in the united states in 2004. yang had a net
worth of 27.3 billion dollars as of august 2021. according to forbes young is vice chairman of the
board's governance committee and helped generate 410 million dollars in 2014 by selling new shares
yang earned a bachelor of arts science degree from ohio state university in 2003 and was a member of
the national society of collegiate scholars nscs yang got cypriot citizenship in 2018 according
to leaked documents called the cypress papers while china does not accept dual nationality
number 7 miriam adelson net worth 25.3 billion miriam adelson born october 10 1945 is a rich
israeli-american physician she became a donor to conservative political causes in the united
states and israel after her 1991 marriage to american business mogul sheldon adelson
the adelsons contributed to donald trump's 2016 presidential campaign inauguration and defense
fund against the mueller probe into russian meddling as well as the 2020 presidential campaign
she is the current publisher of the israel hayem newspaper the woodrow wilson award for
corporate citizenship was given to miriam and sheldon adelson by the smithsonian institution's
woodrow wilson international center for scholars in 2008 number six abigail johnson net worth
26.3 billion johnson has been president and ceo of fidelity investments fmr in the united
states since 2014 as well as chairman of its worldwide sister company fidelity international
phil edward c johnson ii her grandfather created fidelity edward c ned johnson iii her father is
chairman emeritus of fmr the johnson family owned a 49 share in the corporation as of march 2013
with johnson holding an estimated 24.5 percent johnson was named chairman and ceo and president
in november 2016 giving her complete authority of fidelity which has 45 000 people globally
johnson is one of the world's wealthiest women with a net worth of 22.6 billion dollars
she was named the richest person in america's 50 largest cities by forbes in 2016 and she
was placed number nine on forbes list of powerful women in 2020 in 2020 she was also the wealthiest
individual in massachusetts number five jacqueline mars net worth 46.9 billion jacqueline mars as
an american heiress and investor who was born on october 10 1939 she is the granddaughter of frank
c mars and the daughter of audrey ruth meyer and forrest mars senior the founders of the american
confectionary corporation mars incorporated mars was rated 48th richest person in the world by
bloomberg billionaires index in april 2021 with a net worth of 43.4 billion united states dollars
jacqueline mars controls about a third of mars the world's largest candy company which her
grandfather created she worked for the company for nearly two decades and was a member of its
board of directors until 2016. her son stephen badger serves on the board of directors of mars
mars is a member of the national archives board of directors and previously served on the board
of the washington national opera her late brother forrest junior's four daughters controlled the
rest of mars while her brother john owns about a third of it number four mackenzie scott net worth
56.4 billion mackenzie scott is a novelist and the ex-wife of jeff bezos the founder of amazon
she was married to him for 25 years in the middle of 2019 they divorced as part of the divorce
settlement bezos gave scott 25 of his amazon stock which amounted to 4 percent of the company
she signed the giving pledge in may 2019 shortly after announcing the conditions
of her divorce on twitter scott and bezos met in 1992 while both working at d.e shaw a hedge fund
the next year they married and relocated to seattle scott who has two novels to his credit
was a princeton student and research assistant for novelist tony morrison
scott pledged a total of 5.8 billion dollars in contributions to 500 ngos in 2020 and another 2.74
billion dollars to 286 organizations in june 2021 number three julia flescher coke net worth with
family 60.2 billion flesh or coke is the widow of david koch a former executive and co-owner of coke
industries one of the country's most profitable privately held firms the wichita kansas-based
company has annual revenue of around 115 billion dollars and is involved in oil refining
pipelines commodities trading ranching and paper pulp number 2 alice walton net worth 61.8 billion
dollars alice walton the only daughter of walmart founder sam walton has made a name for herself
in the art world in february she received the getty medal for her contributions to the field
she opened the 1.2 billion crystal bridges museum of american art in bentonville arkansas in 2011
which also happens to be the headquarters of walmart the museum introduced pieces by georgia
o'keeffe and andy warhol to the 51 000 person city number one francoise bettencourt myers
net worth 73.6 billion dollars she is the sole grandchild of l'oreal founder eugene schuler
she was born in the posh newly cersei neighborhood of paris in july 1953. francoise bettencourt myers
has always disliked being the center of attention she is introverted according to her close friends
and avoids media appearances as much as possible the world's wealthiest woman is an accomplished
pianist who is said to practice for three to four hours every day francoise bettencourt myers
married french businessman jean-pierre meyers in 1984 and the couple has two children gene victor
35 and nicholas meyers 32 in addition to chairing l'oreal francoise bettencourt myers manages
the family's philanthropic foundation which promotes french science and the arts francoise
bettencourt myers who owns 33 of l'oreal stock is the company's largest shareholder
francoise bettencourt-meyers inherited 39.5 billion dollars from her mother in 2017 but
she has since extended her fortune to an estimated net worth of 86.2 billion dollars as of july 2021.
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