Thursday, May 24, 2012

wealthy women

In the half-hour it took you to get ready for work this morning, Gina Rinehart earned more than $1m. Her gross pay today will be nearly US$50m (£32m). The Australian mining tycoon is the world's wealthiest woman. Rinehart's fortune has nearly tripled in the past year, to $28.5bn.

Other wealthy women are Christy Walton, the American Wal-Mart heiress, who is worth $25.3bn. Liliane Bettencourt, the only child of the L'Oréal founder, Eugène Schueller.
 has $24bn. Susanne Klatten with $13bn, Germany's richest woman inherited a stake in BMW and other assets from her father, Herbert Quandt.

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