MILANO – Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur and fresh off the Twitter board with the gallons of the social network’s main shareholder, is crowned by Forbes as the richest in the world. It is in front of Jeff Bezos, Mr. Amazon: the net worth of Tesla’s CEO is 219 billion dollars, that of the founder of the e-commerce giant has dropped to 171 billion. In Italy, to lead the ranking of the Scrooge is Giovanni FerreroMr. Nutella.
According to the review of the magazine, the patrimony is also growing for Bernard Arnault and family (LVMH), now at $ 158 billion, ranked third for the third consecutive year. In 2022, 2,668 billionaires were registered, 87 less than in 2021. 40% of billionaires, however, increased their assets. Forbes research records that the wealth of Russian billionaires has declined by more than 260 billion in the past year, resulting in 34 fewer Russian billionaires. Only Vladimir Lisin87th, and Vladimir Potanin, 97th, remain clinging to the ranking. But they are also among those who have lost the most: Lisin has lost almost 8 billion of assets to 18.4 billion, despite being one of the few to have criticized the war and spared from sanctions. Potanin has lost the richest man gallon of Russia, seeing instead 10 billion of assets fade, to 17.3. Also Abramovich he saw his fortune more than halve to 6.9 billion. In Moscow there is then the exit from the list of characters like Oleg Tinkov e Arkady Volozhbut also the China – thanks to the government squeeze on Tech companies – he greets 87 scroungers in his representation in the Forbes ranking.
Globally, the total wealth of billionaires fell from $ 13,100 billion to $ 12,700 billion.
The ranking data is for March 11 and therefore, in the case of Musk, does not take into account his massive purchase of Twitter shares. Musk was helped by the rise in Tesla’s stock value, which rose 58.9% over the past year, while Amazon was up just 4.18%. The US leads the ranking with 735 billionaires and total assets of $ 4.7 trillion, followed by China with 607 billionaires and $ 2.300 in assets.
Of the 2,668 billionaires in the world, only 327 are women, a number that also includes women who share the assets with their spouse; in 2021, there were 328. Of these women, 101 made their fortune. Among the new billionaires are the singer Rihanna e Melinda French Gates, after her divorce from Bill Gates, who for the second consecutive year is the fourth richest man in the world. Among the women, 90 are American, 63 Chinese, 35 German. The richest woman is Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (oreal), in 14th place overall with 74.8 billion dollars.
Giovanni Ferrero he is the richest in Italy with a fortune estimated at 36.2 billion dollars. In the global ranking, Ferrero is in 36th place. He leads a troop of 52 Italians in the ranking of billionaires and rises since in 2021 he was 40th. Leonardo del Vecchio (luxottica) earns ten places and is 52nd with 27.3 billion dollars. All the others are very detached: Giorgio Armani is 296th with 7.8 billion, Silvio Berlusconi is 336th with 7.1 billion. Among others, Luciano and Giuliana Benetton they are in 1,163th place with 2.7 billion, John Elkann is 1,445th with 2.1 billion, Brunello Cucinelli is 1513th with 2 billion.