The richest woman in the world is the heiress of the French cosmetics empire L’Oréal Françoise Bettencourt Meyers ($75.4 billion).
Followed by Alice Walton, the heiress of the founder of the retail company Walmart, with the amount of 59.1 billion dollars, and Julia Koch and her family (58 billion dollars). The ex-wife of the founder of the American Internet company Amazon Mackenzie Scott is in eighth place ($ 24.7 billion).
The American Forbes has a total of nine people from the Czech Republic on its list, Kellner being the only woman there. Karel Komárek is behind Kellner with assets of US$7.5 billion (over CZK 171 billion), third is Radovan Vítek, whose assets the magazine currently estimates at US$5.6 billion (nearly CZK 128 billion).
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The fourth is Daniel Křetínský ($5.2 billion; almost CZK 119 billion) and the fifth is the chairman of the ANO movement and former prime minister Andrej Babiš ($4.0 billion; more than CZK 91 billion). In other places there are Pavel Tykač, Pavel Baudiš, Marek Dospiva and Eduard Kučera.
Forbes daily updates the list of the richest people on its website. Last fall, the magazine’s Czech Mutation estimated the assets of Kellner and his family at 383 billion crowns. At the time Babiš was the fifth richest Czech with assets of 107.8 billion crowns. The converted amounts also reflect the development of the exchange rate of the Czech crown against the dollar.
The assets of the richest people in the world are monitored by the Bloomberg agency, for example, which, when compiling Ranking uses a different methodology. Bloomberg estimates Kellner’s net worth at $11.8 billion, ranking him 154th globally.
According to Forbes and Bloomberg, the richest person in the world is French businessman Bernard Arnault. He is co-owner of the LVMH group, which is dedicated to the sale of luxury goods.
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