The richest woman in the world is typically Alice Walton, the Walmart heiress, though this can fluctuate with stock markets; other top contenders include French L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, and Julia Koch (Koch Industries) and Jacqueline Mars (Mars, Inc.). As of late 2025, estimates placed Walton's net worth over $110 billion, often trading the top spot with Bettencourt Meyers.
Guo's estimated net worth stands at $1.3 billion—driven largely by her 5% stake in Scale AI, a data-labelling startup currently valued at $25 billion. While Swift still tops the chart as the world's richest female musician with $1.6 billion, Guo now claims the title of the youngest self-made woman billionaire globally.
Steven Spielberg leads the group with a net worth of $5.3 billion at age 78, benefitting from a unique deal entitling him to 2% of Universal theme park ticket sales and massive earnings from classics.
The American business magazine Forbes produces a global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year and updates an internet version of this list in real time. The American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed billionaire in 1916.
As of December 2025, she has a net worth of US$40.0 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, owning a 1.3 per cent stake in Amazon. As such, Scott is the third-wealthiest woman in the United States and the 40th-wealthiest person in the world.
The title of the world's youngest billionaire (age 19) has recently been held by Livia Voigt, a Brazilian student and heiress to the WEG electrical equipment company, and in other reports, Johannes von Baumbach, heir to the German pharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim, though sources vary slightly on who holds the top spot at any given time, both are heirs inheriting fortunes from family businesses. While Livia Voigt's wealth comes from a minority stake in WEG, and von Baumbach's from his family's stake in Boehringer Ingelheim, both inherited their billions rather than earning them self-made.
Kylie Jenner has publicly shared diagnoses and struggles including Postpartum Depression (PPD), chronic back pain after her second pregnancy treated with stem cell therapy, and a past diagnosis of Recurrent Corneal Erosion Syndrome, a painful eye condition, as noted in various news reports from 2020 to 2025.
Based on Forbes, American singer Taylor Swift is the wealthiest female musician, with a net worth of US$1.6 billion as of 2024. Barbadian singer Rihanna became the first female musician to attain a billionaire status in 2021, with a net worth of $1.7 billion at that time.
