Do Richest Women Rely Solely on Inheritance? These Female Billionaires Would Beg to Differ (or Not!)

Published on May 31, 2018
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Amanda Hearst

Amanda Hearst may have a total net worth of $8.7 billion as the owner of the Hearst Corporation, but she does prove to the world that she doesn’t rest on her wealthy lineage being that her great-grandfather is the legendary media mogul William Randolph Hearst. This scion of the publishing dynasty takes on too many roles. When not running her media empire, she goes out, wears her young activist hat, and speaks for animal rights. Amanda built Friends and Finn – an organization that prevents mistreatment of puppies in puppy mills and works with other non-profit organizations with an aim of raising awareness for puppy mills dogs and advancing her animal welfare advocacy.

Amanda Hearst

Amanda Hearst

Marie Besnier Beauvalot

If you love President brie cheese, you’d surely admire this woman whose net worth of $2.5 billion at the age of 34 made her a young billionaire heiress! Marie Besnier Beauvalot co-owns the French dairy company Lactalis with her two other siblings after they inherited it from their great-grandfather, the founder of Lactalis previously known as the Besnier Group. Lactalis is based in Laval in Western France.

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Marie Besnier Beauvalot

Marie Besnier Beauvalot