On March 5, 2022, Forbes released a list of the richest people in the world today. It is also important to highlight that even with COVID-19 and the conflict in Eastern Europe between Russia and Ukraine, many of them managed to expand their fortunes. In this sense, see who are some of the women who make up this list.
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Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is worth around US$74.8 billion. The 68-year-old is vice chairman of L'Oréal, the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company, founded in 1909 by her grandfather, chemist Eugène Paul Louis Schueller.
Alice is the heiress and only daughter of the founder of the giant Walmart. She has devoted her life to curating art, rather than working in chain department stores like the rest of her family. For the third consecutive year, the American occupies the list of billionaires of Forbes. Now, aged 72, she is ranked 18th, with a fortune of US$65.3 billion.
Julia has three children, and together they inherited 42% of Koch Industries from her husband, David, who died in August 2019 aged 79. She is originally from Iowa and moved to New York in the 1980s, working as an assistant to stylist Adolfo. Today, at age 50, she ranks 21st on the Forbes list, as her fortune is estimated at around $60 billion.
Scott is a philanthropist, author, and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. She occupies the 30th position of the richest people in the world on the Forbes list, with her fortune valued at around US$ 43.6 billion.
Mars is 82 years old and owns approximately one-third of Mars, the world's largest candy maker. She currently ranks 41st on the Forbes list, with an estimated fortune of $31.7 billion.
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