Jeff Bezos tops Forbes rich list for second year running as Zuckerberg's wealth slips.
AMAZON FOUNDER JEFF Bezos has topped magazine Forbes’ rich list for the second year running with an estimated wealth of $131bn .
Bezos , who holds 16% of Amazon, has widened the money gap since last year between himself and Bill Gates, the philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft who sits in second place.Legendary investor Warren Buffett placed third this year on the rich list. His fortune slipped to $82.5bn . The CEO of French luxury good company LVMH, Bernard Arnault, held on to fourth place.
This year’s list features a total of 2,153 billionaires with reclusive tycoon Pallonji Mistry the highest Irish entry at No. 79 having an estimated wealth of $15bn . Lone Star Funds founder John Grayken comes in at No. 215, and second on the Irish list. Grayken, whose wealth sits at an estimated $6.9bn , renounced his US citizenship in the 1990s for tax purposes and took Irish citizenship.
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