reached up richer wealth 10 women in the world $387.6 billion, 9 of whom got their wealth or started their wealth story by getting an inheritance from a parent or husband, except one who got her wealth through to a divorce settlement from one of the richest men in the world.
Françoise Bettencourt Myers, president of L’Oréal, ranked first as the richest woman in the world, with a fortune of $75.8 billion, which she obtained after the death of her mother, Liliane Bettencourt, who was richest woman in the world with $40 billion in 2017.
In second place was Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, with a fortune estimated at $61.6 billion. In 1992, after her father died, she and her three siblings inherited a fortune estimated at $8.2 billion. To $212 billion. now, according to Al-Eqtisadiah.
As for Julia Cook, she ranked third, with a fortune estimated at $58.4 billion, which she inherited from her husband, David Cook, who passed away in 2019. She owned 42% of Cook Industries, which operates in the industrial sectors , refining and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy and minerals.
Jacqueline Mars, the heiress of the United ‘Mars’ food group, was ranked fourth, with a fortune of $39.3 billion, as she owns one-third of the ‘Mars’ group, which owns many manufacturing companies of sweets and chocolates such as Snickers and Mars, and the group also owns the “M&M” brand. M” and other signs.
And Miriam Adelson came in fifth place, with a fortune estimated at $31.1 billion, which she obtained from her husband Sheldon Adelson’s share in the company “Las Vegas Sands” inherited in 2021 after his death.
And in sixth place came Gina Rinehart, with a fortune of 27.9 billion dollars, who works in the field of mining industries, having inherited the company “Hancock Exploration” from her father, Lang Hancock, who died in 1992, and her share of the legacy amounted to $75 million and, since the 1990s, he has expanded Jenna’s mining business in addition to his investments in media organizations, where he is currently a senior partner at Fairfax Media, the largest average in Australia and New Zealand.
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And Mackenzie Scott ranked seventh with $26.4 billion through a divorce settlement after splitting from ex-husband, billionaire Jeff Bezos, after a 25-year marriage.
And Susan Klatten came in eighth place, with a fortune of 25.1 billion dollars, entering the list of the richest people after the death of her father, Herbert Quandt, who saved the famous car company “BMW” from bankruptcy in the 1960s ” of the last century, having inherited with his brother Stefano in 1982, more than half of the shares of the company “BMW”, as well as about 50.1% of the company “Altana” operating in the field of production of pharmaceuticals, medicines and chemicals .
And equally ranked ninth and tenth, Iris Fontbona comes with an estimated fortune of $21 billion and is Chile’s richest person, having inherited since 2005 her husband Andronico Luxic Abaroa’s empire in the mining and hotel industries, and Abigail Johnson with a fortune of $21 billion, ranking 48th richest people in the world, with a fortune of $11.3 billion as of September 2010, and in 2021, he inherited his father’s stake in Fidelity, which manages an estate of $3.7 trillion, which made his wealth rapidly increase.
