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The richest women may span the globe, but two of them come from the same family: the Waltons.
Two of the Walmart heirs capture spots two and and four on Wealth-X’s list of the world’s richest women. Valued at $29 and $28 billion respectively, the two women are part of a family that’s worth the same amount as the bottom 30 percent of Americans, according to an analysis from a labor economist at the University of California-Berkeley.
Other super-wealthy women that made Wealth-X’s cut include Australian mining mogul Gina Rinehart, valued at $29.1 billion, and French socialite Liliane Bettencourt, who is valued at $24 billion. Read More