Our list tracks the wealth of African billionaires who reside in Africa or have their primary businesses there, thus excluding Sudanese-born billionaire Mo Ibrahim, who is a U.K. citizen, and billionaire London resident Mohamed Al-Fayed, an Egyptian citizen. (Strive Masiyiwa, a citizen of Zimb...
Rihanna landed at spot #1,729 on the 2022 list with a net worth of $1.7 billion. "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson also landed on the list for the first time this year. Jackson was listed at #1,929 on the list with a net worth of $1.5 billion. Kim Kardashianlanded at #1...
That’s a significant change from the first list in 1982, when the only entertainers among the richest Americans were Yoko Ono and Bob Hope. By 2002, just six more were added, and only three of them made it to billionaire status: George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey. But in ...
Architects of its plan for a stock market debut had scaled back the valuation target for the company from $47 billion to under $20 billion as they pushed back the timeframe. The IPO is now unlikely to happen before the end of the year, according to a source, adding that at the earlies...
West’s relationship with wealth and recognition has been anything but subtle. In 2020, after years of lobbying to be included on Forbes’ billionaire list, he challenged their reporting. “It’s $3.3 billion since no one at Forbes knows how to count,” West reportedly texted an editor after...
When Forbes released its billionaires list sans West earlier in April, the rapper texted a contact at the outlet saying the publication was "toying" with him. "You know what you’re doing," West texted. "You’re toying with me and I’m not finna lye [sic] down and take it anymore ...
To coincide with the release of the 2012 list, Forbes announced a new "Billionaire Real-Time Ticker" updating the wealth of the world's top fifty billionaires in real time. 《富比士》在發布2012年排行榜的同時,也宣布了新的「富豪實時時鐘」(Billionaire Real-Time Ticker),即時地更新全球前五十大...
Although she wasn't technically on the 30 Under 30 list, she hosted the Forbes Under 30 Summit in 2015. That same year,Forbesnamed Holmes "the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire" in the U.S. based on a $9 billion valuation of her company. Forbes later revised her net...
During the call, Trump as Barron said that he had taken control of the business he ran with his father, and should be credited with owning those assets as well, which would make him a billionaire.Under a previous editor of theForbes400 list, the magazine had valued Trump’s assets at $...
The world’s richest Black man is the first Black entry on the Forbes billionaire list. African billionaire Aliko Dangote comes in with an impressive $14 billion net worth. Just last week, it was announced that he opened a 3-million-tonne fertilizer plant at a cost of $2.5 ...