Six years ago
Forbes
magazine
set out to give visibility to the richest and most powerful women in the world who have made themselves, that is, thanks to their effort, their businesses, their intelligence, their abilities or, simply, their own luck have become successful people.
For this reason, since then it has launched an annual list with the 100 most powerful women in different fields, and many well-known names stand out.
This year the singer and in recent times mainly businesswoman Rihanna sneaks into that compilation for the first time.
At the age of 32, the Barbadian woman is ranked number 33, with a fortune of 600 million dollars (about 511 million euros) that she has achieved in large part thanks to her beauty and underwear brands Fenty.
The publication highlights that it has donated almost seven of them to the fight against the coronavirus already affected by the pandemic.
Among the new incorporations, which are a total of 15 in addition to the singer, there are also less popular profiles, but very interesting, coming from the world of business, investment, health and pharmaceuticals, insurance companies or businesses through Internet.
This is the case of Donna Carpenter, 57, owner and co-president of the snowboarding firm Burton, which she founded in 1977 with her late husband, which employs 1,000 people and has managed to turn
snowboarding
into a mass sport. in addition to endowing her with 450 million euros.
There is also Kelly Steckelberg, 53, who since 2017 is the chief financial officer of the now well-known Zoom videoconferencing platform, and who during these years decided to invest in shares of her company, now five times more valuable and which have made her amass a fortune of 217 million euros.
In addition, there are two well-known entries to that list, ranked 87th and 92nd.
The first is the Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, who at 33 years old amasses a fortune of 170 million euros.
According to the publication, although the athlete retired from the professional circuit in 2020 after almost two decades and after winning five Grand Slams, it has been her advertising contracts that have made her a millionaire and she has occupied the podium of female athletes 11 consecutive times highest paid in the world.
He also owns a candy line called Sugarpova and has invested in a sunscreen brand called Supergoop.
In position number 92 enters, with almost 162 million euros, Kris Jenner.
The mother and
manager
of the Kardashian-Jenner sisters is 64 years old and has not only become a celebrity thanks to her daughters and the program she created herself.
He has also made her rich, earning 85,000 euros for each of the episodes of
the
family
reality show
, and with a commission of 10% of all the earnings of his offspring.
In the list, in addition to news, there are names that have already been prominent in recent years.
Topping the list is the little-known 73-year-old Diane Hendricks, € 6.8 billion, co-creator and president of a major Wisconsin-based company called ABC Supply, one of the largest roofing, window, and gutter distributors in the US. She, and after the presidents of large companies or founders of gas stations or pizzerias, there are well-known characters.
This is the case of Oprah Winfrey, number nine on the list with a fortune of 2,200 million euros.
More than a communicator, Winfrey has become the queen of American television and has managed to create, based on her name and image, a media emporium with programs, magazines, television channels or investments in Weight Watchers, a company of weight loss, or Apple TV.
Sheryl Sandberg, the popular COO and number two on Facebook, appears at number 13 on the list with 1.53 billion euros.
After her comes another Californian businesswoman, but very different: Kim Kardashian West.
The popular reality star, 39, is in the 24th position with an estimated fortune of about 663 million euros, which according to the publication he has achieved thanks to the family television program, in principle, but later thanks to his mobile applications and its lines of cosmetics, perfumes and the most recent and as successful as controversial underwear.
A few places later and after the designer Tory Burch (in 26th place, with 637 million) is the little one of the Kardashian clan, Kylie Jenner, who is estimated to have a fortune of 595 million euros.
Like her older sister, her empire began to take its first steps on television but now, at 23, cosmetics is her strength.
In fact, she is the youngest on the list.
A handful of young and well-known professionals are in the middle of the list.
The creator of the Spanx girdle firm, Sara Blakely, is ranked 32 (518 million euros);
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on 33 (510 million euros) and Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of the well-known
online
dating app
Bumble, focused on women, 39th, with 490 million.
After them, there are also some artist accounts: Madonna (40th place, 467 million euros); Celine Dion (51st place, 386 million), Donna Karan (52nd, with 382 million), Beyoncé (56th, 357 million) or Barbra Streisand (56th, 340 million). There are also a couple of hugely successful romantic writers and not least checking accounts: Nora Roberts (tied with Streisand for 56th) and Danielle Steel (58th) very close on the list and in revenue, with 340 million the first and 327 the second. Ellen DeGeneres, Taylor Swift, Vera Wang, Serena Williams, Reese Witherspoon, Lady Gaga or Jennifer Lopez complete the list of a series of very different women, but always self-made.
