The richest woman in the world is instead the 93-year-old French Liliane Bettencourt, main shareholder of the cosmetics multinational L'Oréal (which in turn controls Sanofi with Elf Aquitaine), with 36.1 billion dollars. In third place among the Italian scrooge is the entrepreneur Stefano Pessina (13.7 billion), founder of Allenza pharmaceutical, followed by Massimiliana Landini Aleotti, (Menarini) with 10.1 billion dollars (101st in the ranking).
The founder of Microsoft Bill Gates is confirmed, for the third consecutive year, the richest man in the worldor, according to the classification of billionaires on a global scale compiled every 12 months by the American trade magazine Forbes.
Gates has a net worth of $75 billion and in 2016 remains at the top of the list of world papers even if compared to last year it lost more than 4 billion. Immediately behind him is the Spaniard Amancio Ortega, the founder of the Zara clothing and accessories brand, with assets of 67 billion.
On the third step of the podium, the American entrepreneur and economist Warren Buffett, "the oracle of Omaha" has a fortune of 60.8 billion. But of all the super rich, Facebook's number one Mark Zuckerberg was the one who had the best year: the founder of Facebook moved from sixteenth to sixth position in the standings with assets of 44.6 billion.
The richest woman in the world is instead the 93-year-old Frenchwoman Liliane Bettencourt, main shareholder of the cosmetics multinational L'Oréal, with 36.1 billion dollars. The first Italian in the standings occupies 30th place: it is Maria Franca Fissòlo, the widow of Michele Ferrero, who has assets of 22.1 billion dollars. In 37th place is then Leonardo Del Vecchio, owner of Luxottica, with an estimated 18.7 billion dollars.
In third place among the Italian scrooges is the entrepreneur Stefano Pessina (13.7 billion), founder of Allenza pharmaceutical, followed by Massimiliana Landini Aleotti [top left], (Menarini) with 10.1 billion dollars. Then Silvio Berlusconi with 6.3 billion and Giorgio Armani with 6 billion dollars.
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Note: Last year in a note from the Company: «The Aleotti family specifies that the assets attributed to them are an assessment made by "Forbes" of the purely theoretical value of the Menarini Group».
In 2011, a court placed Ms Bettencourt in the guardianship of her daughter, Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, and her grandchildren after finding her unfit to manage her affairs, suffering from dementia.
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