These are the youngest female billionaires in the world. They
range in age from 19 to over 50. Some of them made their fortune on
their own, and others inherited the family business. Read on to
learn just how these remarkable young women got their billions.
Holly Branson
Holly Branson is worth $3.8 billion. Her father is entrepreneur
Sir Richard Branson. She went to medical school where she
specialized in neurology. After school, she worked in the neurology
department of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. She also
travels around the world doing humanitarian work.
Marie Besnier Beauvalot
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Marie Besnier Beauvalot is a 34-year-old who is worth $2.5
billion. She inherited a French dairy company called Lactalis. She
and her two siblings own 100% of the company. They make Président
brie cheese, which is what made the company popular. The company is
based in Laval in western France.
Serra Sabanci
Serra Sabanci is a 39-year-old worth $1.1 billion. She is a
shareholder and board member of Sabanci Holdings, which is Turkey’s
largest financial and industrial conglomerate. She is the 28th
richest person in Turkey. She went to the University of Portsmouth
and graduated with honors from the Department of Economics of
Istanbul Bilgi University.
Ana Lucia de Mattos Barretto Villela
Ana is a 41-year-old who is worth $3.6 billion. Her
great-grandfather founded Itau, which is one of the largest banks
in Brazil. The bank merged with Unibanco and together they are
known as Itau-Unibanco, the largest non-state bank in Latin
America. She is the youngest female billionaire in Brazil so she is
set for life.
Lee Seo-Hyun
Lee Seo-Hyun is a 41-year-old who is worth $1.3 billion. She is
the president of Cheil Industries, which is a textile manufacturer.
Seo-Hyun expanded the company into fashion business and chemicals.
She then bought Colombo Via Della Spiga. She also merged with
Samsung SDI and Samsung Everland, making them the leading producer
of energy storage solutions.
Aerin Lauder
Aerin Lauder is 46 years old and is worth $1.85 billion. She is
an heiress to the Estée Lauder line. She also has her own fashion,
perfume, cosmetic, and furniture line named AERIN. When it comes to
the Estée Lauder Company, she owns 16 million shares.
Tamara Ecclestone
Tamara Ecclestone is a 32-year-old heiress, socialite and
television personality worth $3.6 billion. Her father is Bernie
Ecclestone, a billionaire who is the chief executive of the Formula
One Group. She worked as a presenter for Sky Sports Italia and has
been involved in other racing productions. In 2013 Tamara made
headlines of a different sort when it was revealed her ex-fiance
had attempted to blackmail her for £200,000 for not selling her
“intimate secrets” to the press. Derek Rose was convicted and
sentenced to four years of jail time for the attempted
blackmail.
Petra Stunt
Petra Stunt is the other daughter of billionaire Bernie
Ecclestone. Like her sister Tamara, she is also a socialite and
model, as well as a fashion designer. She married billionaire
businessman James Stunt in 2011 in a wedding that allegedly cost
close to £12 million. Recently, the couple has made headlines for
their real estate adventures, buying the former mansion of
mega-producer Aaron Spelling and then listing it for $200 million.
Like her sister Tamara, though, Petra has also had bad luck with
some rather shady characters. In 2014 it was revealed that she had
been conned out of £1.6 million by the person she had hired to help
renovate the mansion. He was eventually sentenced to Yikes!
Dylan Lauren
Dylan Lauren, daughter of designer Ralph Lauren, is worth $4.7
billion. She opened the largest candy shop in the world, called
Dylan’s Candy Bar. While she chose not to follow in her father’s
footsteps, she did let him design her wedding dress when she
married Paul Arrouet in 2011. It looks like she would much rather
bathe in candy than deal with clothes.
Kylie Jenner
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In July 2018, Kylie Jenner appeared on the cover
of Forbes magazine, which proclaimed that she was
set to become the youngest self-made billionaire. The 20-year old
reality television star and half-sister of Kim Kardashian has a
wildly popular cosmetics line called Kylie Cosmetics which earned
$900 million in less than three years. Backlash to the “self-made”
title was swift, with dictionary.com tweeting that the term “means
having succeeded in life unaided.” Either way, Kylie is a very
wealthy young woman.
Amanda Hearst
Amanda Hearst is worth $8.7 billion and is the owner of the
Hearst Corporation. It was originally founded by her great
grandfather. She created an organization called Friends and Finn
that prevents mistreatment of puppies in puppy mills. She works
with non-profit organizations to promote a positive message about
animal rights.
Laurene Powell Jobs
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Laurene Powell Jobs is 51 years old and worth $20.4 billion. She
was married to the late Steve Jobs. She received a bachelor’s
degree in Art and Science from the University of Pennsylvania
Wharton School. She went on to get her MBA from the Stanford
Graduate School of Business. She founded the Emerson Collective,
which helps under-resourced students through entrepreneurship.
Athina Onassis
Athina Onassis is the last surviving descendant of infamous
Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis, making her style-icon
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ granddaughter through marriage. She is
estimated to have been worth as much as $5 billion at one point,
after having famously received $800 million of her inheritance on
her 18th birthday. In recent years, however, the heiress seems to
have fallen on harder times and there is speculation that her
fortune is swiftly dwindling between the expenses her extravagant
lifestyle and her estimated $100 million in her divorce settlement
to her philandering ex-husband. Even the media in her home country
of Greece is speculating on the heiresses’ financial state, with
one headline proclaiming “Athina Onassis May Not Be a Billionaires
Anymore!” Ouch!
Charlotte Casiraghi
Charlotte Casiraghi is a 29-year-old model and is worth $5.7
billion. She is the second child of Caroline, Princess of Hanover,
and the Italian industrialist Stefano Casiraghi. Charlotte is
eighth in line to the throne of Monaco. She received a philosophy
degree from Sorbonne University is a decorated equestrian, and is
also the face of Gucci. In 2013 she made headlines by having a son
out of wedlock with famed French actor Gad Elmaleh, who is 16 years
her senior. Sadly, though, there was no fairy-tale ending for this
couple, as they abruptly split up two years later, with a source
telling PEOPLEmagazine “He wasn’t around enough – and
she wanted a father for her son.”
Sara Blakely
Sara Blakely is a 45-year-old worth $1 billion. She founded the
company Spanx, which makes intimate apparel, pants, and
leggings. Time named her as one of the most 100
influential people in the world in
2012. Forbes has named her the 93rd most
powerful woman in the world. With there being millions of people in
the world, being the 93rd most powerful is amazing. The next
billionaire is one of the youngest in the world.
Alexandra Andresen
Alexandra Andresen is only 19 years old, making her the youngest
female billionaire in the world. She is worth a staggering $1.2
billion and is the daughter of Johan H. Andresen Jr. He is a
Norwegian industrialist who owns Ferd AS. He transferred 80% of his
shares from Ferd Holding to his daughters.
Perenna Kei
Perenna Kei is a 24-year-old who is worth $1.3 billion. She went
to the University of London where she got her bachelor’s degree in
economics and finance. She has an 85% holding in Logan Property
Holding through companies located in Guernsey and the Cayman
Islands. Logan Property sells high-end real estate in Shenzhen. She
also has a family trust.
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus is a 52-year-old who is worth $8.7
billion. Her husband Robert (Julia’s second cousin) passed away and
left her with Louis-Dreyfus, which is a French commodities giant.
After selling part of the companies’ energy trading business, her
personal stake increased. She also owns Olympique Marseille, a
soccer giant.
Lynsi Snyder
When Lynsi Snyder turned 35 years old (on May 5 2017), she
received the final portion of her inheritance: the In-N-Out Burger
fortune. She now owns 97% of the fast food chain and is worth $1.3
billion. Snyder has led a difficult life despite her current
riches, as her uncle was killed in a plane crash in 1993, and her
father died of a drug overdose in 1999. Snyder was involved in a
series of troubled marriages until she found religion and changed
her ways after her last divorce.
Zhou Qunfei
Zhou Qunfei is 45 years old and worth $5.7 billion. She grew up
in a poor family but became a successful entrepreneur. She founded
the company Lens Technology, which makes touch screens. Her company
supplies these screens to electronics companies such as Samsung,
Apple, and Huawei. She is the richest woman in China.
Sandra Ortega Mera
Sandra Mera is 47 years old and worth $6.7 billion. The fourth
richest person in the world is her father, Amancio Ortega Gaona.
When her mother died, Sandra inherited her fortune as well as 89%
holdings in her company, named Rosp Corunna. She also has a stake
in her father’s company, Inditex, which is a clothing company.
Anna Anissimova
Anna Anissimova is worth $2 billion and is popularly known as
the Russian Paris Hilton. Her father is a billionaire who built his
fortune by metal trading. Her sister was murdered by the Russian
Mafia, so Anna was sent to America for safety. She has done some
modeling, acting, real estate ventures, and is married to Peter
Schafer, a film producer.