Rich Bastards - Top 10 Rich Lists

Helen Walton - widow of Sam Walton (d.1992) - died 19 Apr 2007 at age 87. She was the world's 4th richest woman at the time - worth $16.4 billion.
Barbara Cox Anthony - sister of Anne Cox Chambers - died 28 May 2007 at age 83. She was the world's 6th richest woman - worth $12.6 billion.

Brazil

TOP 10 - Brazil's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family	$10.0 billion	diversified	Sao Paulo	79yo - na, 9 children
2. Joseph Safra (cut financial ties with his older brother Moise in mid-2006. )	$8.8 billion	banking	Sao Paulo	69yo - Married, 4 children
*3. Eike Batista* (college dropout ... one-time champion offshore powerboat racer ... his father was former mining minister of Brazil)	$6.6 billion	iron-ore mining	Rio de Janeiro	51yo - Divorced, 2 children (formerly married to Playboy cover girl)
*4. Dorothea Steinbruch & family* (sister-in-law of Eliezer* Steinbruch)*	$6.1 billion	Inheritence (steel)	Sao Paulo	na - Widowed, 3 children
5. Jorge Paulo Lemann (onetime tennis champion - he played at Wimbledon)	$5.8 billion	banking, beer	Sao Paulo	68yo - Married, 5 children
*6. Eliezer Steinbruch & family* (brother-in-law of Dorothea Steinbruch)	$4.0 billion	Inheritance (steel)	Sao Paulo	na - Married, 3 children
7. Aloysio de Andrade Faria	$3.7 billion	banking	Sao Paulo	87yo - Married, 5 children
8. Moise Safra (cut financial ties with his younger brother Joseph in mid-2006. )	$2.8 billion	banking	Sao Paulo	73yo - Married
9. Marcel Herman Telles (keen spearfisher)	$2.5 billion	banking, beer	Sao Paulo	58yo - Married, 2 children
10. Carlos Alberto Sicupira	$2.3 billion	banking, beer	Sao Paulo	60yo - Married, 3 children

Canada

TOP 10 - Canada's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. David Thomson & family (father, Kenneth Thomson, 82, died June 2006)	$18.9 billion	inherited	Toronto	50yo - Divorced, 3 children (Engaged to Kelly Rowan, star of defunct TV show The O.C.)
2. Galen Weston & family (Plays polo with Prince Charles ... Avid collector of avant-garde artist Christo)	$7.0 billion	retail (owns controlling stake in Canada's largest supermarket chain)	Toronto	67yo - Married, 2 children
3. James, Arthur & John Irving (brothers)	$6.7 billion	oil / gas (own 600 gas stations)	Saint John	n/a - n/a
4. Edward Rogers (Son of the man who invented the world's first alternating-current radio tube, which made radios mainstream)	$5.7 billion	media (46 radio stations, 70 consumer and trade magazines, and television stations like Rogers Sportsnet and the Shopping Channel)	Toronto	74yo - Married, 4 children
*5. Jim Pattison*	$5.5 billion	diversified (incl. Ripley's Believe It or Not ... Bought Guinness World Records in February)	Vancouver	79yo - Married, 3 children
6. Paul Desmarais (bought his father's one-route Ontario bus company for $1- in 1951)	$4.6 billion	finance	Montreal	80yo - Married, 4 children
*7. Mike Lazaridis* (building a $13.2 million house just outside Waterloo on 76-acre property with private lake)	$3.6 billion	technology (founded BlackBerry maker Research In Motion while student at University of Waterloo)	Waterloo	47yo - Married
7. Jeffrey S Skoll	$3.6 billion	Ebay	USA, CA, Los Angeles	43yo - Single
9. James Balsillie (competes in men's long-course triathlons)	$3.4 billion	technology (founded BlackBerry maker Research In Motion)	Waterloo	47yo - na
10. Bernard (Barry) Sherman	$3.3 billion	Apotex pharmaceuticals (seeking over-the-counter-sales approval of its controversial "morning-after" pill )	Toronto	66yo - Married, 4 children

China

TOP 10 - China's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Head Office	Personal
*1. Yang Huiyan*	$7.4 billion	real estate (received 58% stake in real estate developer Country Garden from its main founder, her father, Yeung Kwok Keung)	Shunde	26yo - Married
2. Zhang Jindong	$4.5 billion	Sunning Appliances (China's second-biggest electrical appliance chain - has 600 retail stores and plans to open another 400 by 2010)	Nanjing	45yo - Married
3. Lu Zhiqiang (Beijing's richest resident)	$3.9 billion	real estate	Beijing	55yo - Married
4. Wong Kwong Yu	$3.5 billion	Gome Appliances (& real estate)	Beijing	38yo - Married, 2 children
5. Huang Wei & family (runs Chinese chess club)	$3.4 billion	real estate, gem trader	Hangzhou	48yo - Married
6. Zhang Li	$3.1 billion	real estate	Guangzhou	55yo - n/a
7. Liang Wengen	$3.0 billion	Sany Heavy Industry (makers of construction equipment)	Changsha	51yo - Married, 1 child
7. Zhang Xin & family (husband, Pan Shiyi, transferred shares to Zhang, prior to listing)	$3.0 billion	real estate	Beijing	43yo - Married
9. Shi Yuzhu (Shanghai's richest resident)	$2.8 billion	online gaming	Shanghai	46yo - Single
10. Liu Yonghao	$2.7 billion	Hope Group (agriculture, investments) (with three brothers, Liu started Hope Group 1982 with about $120; eventually became China's second-largest animal feed maker)	Chengdu	56yo - Married, 2 children

France

TOP 10 - France's Richest People ... (5 March 2008) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
Name	Wealth	Source	Residence	Personal
1. Bernard Arnault (skilled pianist)	$25.5 billion	LVMH (world's largest luxury goods empire)	Paris	59yo - Married, 5 children
2. Liliane Bettencourt (world's richest woman)	$22.9 billion	L'Oreal (daughter of L'Oréal founder Eugene Schueller)	Paris	85yo - Widowed, 1 child (husband, Andre Bettencourt , died Nov 2007 at age 88)
3. Francois Pinault (High School drop out ... was awarded the French Legion d'honneur last year)	$16.9 billion	retail (incl. Gucci)	Paris	71yo - Married, 3 children
4. Alain & Gerard Wertheimer (brothers)	$12.9 billion	Chanel (apparel, perfume) (Chanel No. 5 perfume is the world's top selling scent)	USA, New York	n/a - n/a
5. Serge Dassault & family (French senator)	$9.9 billion	aviation (makers of Mirage and Rafale jets)	Paris	82yo - Married, 4 children
6. Jean-Claude Decaux & family (Started out putting ads on public toilets and bus shelters)	$5.9 billion	advertising (number one outdoor advertiser in China)	Paris	70yo - Married, 3 children
7. Martin & Olivier Bouygues (brothers)	$4.5 billion	telecom, media, construction	Paris	55/57yo -n/a
*8. Didier Primat*	$2.9 billion	Oil / gas (employs over 66,000 people in 80 countries)	Switzerland, Geneva	63yo - Married
9. Alain Merieux & family	$2.8 billion	biotech (specializes in the diagnosis of bacteria in the human body and infectious diseases like HIV and tuberculosis)	Lyon	70yo - Married, 3 children (eldest son killed in plane crash in 1996, age 28. 2nd- eldest son died of cardiac failure in 2006, age 32)
10. Romain Zaleski (Onetime bureaucrat)	$2.7 billion	investments	Italy, Milan	75yo - Married, 3 children

Germany