21 Richest Billionaires In The World

9. Liliane Bettencourt

Liliane Bettencourt World's Richest
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Rating: $37.8Billion

The notoriously media-shy heiress and socialite is one of the chief shareholders of global brand L'Oreal and up until 2012 owned her own £60m island in the Seychelles.

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