At just 21, Kylie Jenner has dethroned Facebook‘s Mark Zuckerberg and is the world’s youngest ‘self-made’ billionaire.
She tops Forbes’ annual billionaires list and Jenner’s net worth is now estimated to be $1 billion. Her cosmetic line, Kylie Cosmetics, made an estimated $508 million in sales last year.
How much do her other (famous) siblings make? Kim Kardashian’s net worth is around US$45-million.
Jenner comes from a long line of famous people. She’s the daughter of Olympian Caitlin Jenner and Kris Jenner and sister to Kim Kardashian West, who’s married to music mogul turned designer Kanye West. Along with being a reality star (Keeping up with the Kardashians), Forbes’ terminology of “self-made” apparently irked the world as we know it so much that they actually defending their use of the term.
They define “self-made” as “someone who built a company or established a fortune on her own, rather than inheriting some or all of it.”
The richest person in the world was as expected Amazon.’s Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos, whose net worth increased to $131 billion from $112 billion in 2018, according to Forbes.
Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates stuck in there in second place with an estimated fortune of $96.5 billion, up from $90 billion last year.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped three places to number eight, as his fortune fell by $8.7 billion to $62.3 billion.
