People – among the wealthiest and self-made
Rihanna, Dolly Parton and Cindy Crawford are artists and millionaires, and they already have their place in the list of the 100 richest American women published by Forbes magazine, where Kardashian also occupies their place.
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Rihanna, the singer who triumphed with songs like “Umbrella” or “Work,” actually appears on this list at number 16. She has a net worth of $1.7 billion, according to Forbes and is the richest singer in the world. the scientist.
Country music star Dolly Parton tops the list, with a net worth of $350 million; Cindy Crawford, who has ruled the runways for years, has a net worth of $225 million from her business.
Diane Hendricks, owner of ABC Supply, tops the list with a net worth of $11 billion. Followed by Jodi Faulkner, founder of Epic Systems with 6,500 million; Bronze went to Meg Whitman of Quebec for 6,300 million.
For the fourth year in a row, Diane Hendricks, owner of ABC Supply, a rooftop supply company, tops the list of the 100 Most Richest Women in America, with a net worth of $11 billion.
Jodi Faulkner, founder of Epic Systems, a leading provider of medical records software, comes in second with $6.5 billion.
Meg Whitman, CEO of Quibi, a short-lived content streaming platform, complements the platform with $6.3 billion.
In the rest of the positions on the list, among successful business women and CEOs of important companies, some names that are better known by the public stand out, because they have a profile that transcends the world of business and enters the world of entertainment. For example: Dolly Parton, Cindy Crawford and Rihanna, who are the most successful artists.
Rihanna.
The singer who has triumphed with songs like “Umbrella” or “Work”, Rihanna has already appeared on this list as a billionaire and at number 16. Her net worth is $1.7 billion, according to Forbes.
Her last album to date, “Anti” was released in 2016. A year later, she launched Barbados Fenty Beauty, a cosmetics company whose products are sold exclusively in Sephora stores, whose rating is one of the main reasons behind his fortune.
Lipstick in Barbados? Not unless she’s a bridesmaid at a friend’s wedding. My mother was inflexible. I wasn’t wearing makeup,” she told Instyle the same year she started the company, with which she wanted to reach all skin types and tones.
“This was very important to me. Who became the richest singer on the planet commented.
Dolly Parton.
Country music star Dolly Parton entered the list at the top, albeit still somewhat far from the top places, with a net worth of $350 million.
In a year that saw the spread of the Covid-91 epidemic, in addition to donating a million dollars to the modern pharmaceutical company to develop a vaccine against the disease, he composed and released a Christmas song and album and starred in a movie on the platform. Netflix.
A third of his fortune comes from his music catalog, which he has held virtually all of the rights to since he founded his own publishing company in 1966, according to Forbes.
However, what thickens the Queen of Country account the most is Dollywood, the theme park she co-founded in Tennessee, United States.
Parton was born in the same state of Dollywood, in 1946. Coming from a humble rural family, he heard his mother sing while looking after her and her eleven siblings.
Dolly started singing in church and later on radio and television stations. Once he finished high school, according to Forbes magazine, he moved to Nashville, his hometown of the country, where he composed songs with his uncle, with whom he founded his own label after his first contract with Combine Music.
Cindy Crawford.
In the ’80s and ’90s, Cindy Crawford dominated the runways along with her fellow supermodels. Today, she also does so in the business world, with a net worth of $225 million.
In 2004 he founded a dedicated skincare company, Emminful Beauty, of which he currently owns half of the stock.
In a 2014 talk with 650 students from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, he stated that the main point in developing his business was not to renew a lucrative contract with Revlon to launch his company.
“There comes a time when you want to get involved. As can be read on the foundation’s website, I imagine I believed in myself and in the idea and intent of sheer beauty and wanted to take a risk,” said the businesswoman, as can be read on the foundation’s website.
Familia Kardashian.
After Kim Kardashian West sold 20% of her cosmetics company KKW Beauty to Coty, for $ 200 million, according to Forbes estimates, Kim Kardashian West’s fortune will be estimated at $ 900 million.
And so this sale became the Kardashian clan’s second biggest cash transaction, after Kylie Jenner, also sold to Coty, half of her cosmetics company, Kylie Cosmetics.
“Kim is a true global icon of the modern age,” said Peter Harf, President and CEO of Coty. “This influence, combined with Coty’s leadership and deep expertise in the prestigious beauty space will allow us to realize the full potential of her brands,” Fobes stated.
For its part, the fortune that Forbes recalculated that Kylie Jenner had, after certain meetings with financial experts who did not adjust her true value, estimated it at 700 million dollars.
Diane Hendricks.
“I lived a beautiful life, I live on the farm. Beautiful house, big square white house.
But I’ve always wanted to go to town. I wanted to wear a suit,” Hendricks told Forbes magazine in 2017.
She was one of nine daughters of a dairy couple in Wisconsin, and with her husband she built ABC Supply, the nation’s leading wholesaler of rooftop products.
Before she presided over her own empire, Hendrix was a teenage mother, shortly before she reached adulthood.
“At that time you couldn’t go to school and be pregnant,” she told the outlet, so she studied her last year of high school at home.
“I would go up after the other students left, take my exam and do my schoolwork,” he said.
She later met her husband, who dropped out of high school to work with his father in the bishop’s business.
Together, they built the foundation for ABC Supply’s current success. They opened their first store in 1982; In 1994 they already had more than a hundred, and four years later, their turnover reached 1,000 million dollars. He passed away in 2007 and she remained at the helm of the company through which she made her fortune.
Jodi Faulkner.
The company founded by Jodi Faulkner and whose CEO is Epic Systems controls a lot of medical records, thanks to which it ranks second on this list. Faulkner was born in 1973 and from a young age was interested in mathematics. In fact, this was also the path he chose to train.
He majored in mathematics at Dickinson College and during a summer internship he had contact with programming. He told Forbes last April, “I’ve always loved making things with clay, and the computer was clay for the mind. Instead of my body, it was my brain.”
A few years later, in 1979, Faulkner had an idea behind Epic and with John Grist, the chief resident, asked friends and family for money to start it.
A few years later, Greist left the board of directors and Faulkner moved to the company, of which she remained CEO at 78.