Mother’s Day: World’s richest mothers!
Of all the mothers in this world, some are so rich that their fortune could feed an entire continent for a whole year. For the record, there are 70 billionaire moms in this world, 8 of them earning their fortune with hard work and creativity.
These women are successful, famous and above all, mothers. A list compiled by Forbes.com reveals the 70 women around the globe who will celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday as billionaires. Wall-Mart widow, Christy Walton, tops the World’s Richest Mothers List.
Here are the World’s richest mothers:
1. Christy Walton, widow of John Walton son of Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart. Her fortune is estimated at a total of $22.5 billion. Has one child
2. Liliane Bettencourt (87) from France is daughter of Birgit Rausing, widow of Tetra Laval Swedish creator, and daughter of Eugene Schueller, founder of giant cosmetic company L’Oreal. Well, I hope Liliane is making it worth because she’s the richest woman in Europe as well. Her fortune is estimated at a total of $20 billion. Has one child, Francoise Bettencourt-Meyer (61), whom she rarely speaks.
3. Birgit Rausing of Sweden. Mother of 3, widow and has a fortune of $13 billion. With her three children she inherited packaging Tetra Laval after husband Gad Rausing died ten years ago. The company developed lightweight packaging that preserves the nutritional value and taste of milk and fruit juice.
4. Savitri Jindal (60) from India. Mother of 9 (nine!) children, widow. Fortune of $12.2 billion. Her late husband was Om Prakash Jindal who founded and made fortune with the 1952 company O.P Jindal Group, a steel and power conglomerate. Unfortunately, he died five years ago in a helicopter crash.
5. Abigail Johnson from U.S. Mother of 2, still married. Fortune of $11.5 billion. Where from all this money? Well, she and her father controls Fidelity Investments, America’s largest mutual fund company. She got to run her first diversified fund at only 28 years old.
These are women who inherited fortune. Eight ladies, out of the 70 billionaire moms in this world, have made their fortune working hard. Margaret C. Whitman is one of them. She graduated from Princeton and Harvard Business School, moved to California with her neurosurgeon husband and then joined eBay, a small company who grew to be one of the biggest online selling companies in the world.
Rosalia Mera, Zara’s creator, mother of two children, made dressing gowns before launching a clothing line with her ex-husband, Amancio Ortega.
The Gap was founded in 1969 by Donald G. Fisher and Doris F. Fisher, when they opened the first Gap store on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco.
Benetton’s Guiliana Beneton started the family’s fashion business knitting sweaters that Luciano, her brother would peddle by bicycle. The group was founded in 1965.
Harry Potter’s British author, Joanne (JK) Rowling wrote the script for her famous novels in cafes in Edinburgh and was living with her first child in a meager flat, trying to get trough the day on welfare. She is now happy mum of 3 children.
