The Oldest Billionaires In The World Right Now

By on March 26, 2017 in ArticlesBillionaire News

These 10 billionaires have serious seniority. Ranging in age from 93 to 99, they are the oldest billionaires in the world right now. When we say right now, we mean it. On March 20th, billionaire David Rockefeller died at the age of 101 and passed the title of oldest billionaire to 99-year-old Maria Franca Fissola, the widow of Nutella founder Michele Ferraro. The Nutella and Tic Tac impresario passed away in February 2015 at the age of 89 – meaning that, even if he was still alive today, he wouldn't be old enough to crack the top 20 oldest billionaires.

The oldest billionaires in the world have seen a great deal of change in the world in the past 93 to 99 years. They have witnessed the evolution of the automobile and air travel. They've seen men go to the moon. They've seen computers go from behemoth machines that took up a whole room to being small enough to carry in your back pocket. In their lifetimes industries were born and died. The fax machine was a revelation until email came along. Transistor radios gave way to albums, eight track tapes, cassette tapes, CDs, MP3s, and finally cloud-based streaming music. Suffice it to say, the world today is vastly different than it was in 1924, when the youngest of the oldest billionaires were born.

The generation gap means that the fortunes of the oldest billionaires come from some traditional sources. Maria Franca Fissola, for instance, comes from candy. Also represented: cosmetics, real estate, insurance, the Dole citrus empire, and Warren Buffett's right hand man. Women take two titles on this list – oldest and richest. As mentioned, Nutella widow Maria Franca Fissola is the oldest, at 99. L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt is the richest of the oldest with a net worth of $35 billion.

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These are the 16 Oldest Billionaires In The World Right Now:

Alexander Spanos

Age: 93

Net Worth: $1.1 billion

Source: real estate, the NFL's Los Angeles Chargers

Country: United States

Len Ainsworth

Age: 93

Net Worth: $1.3 billion

Source: slot machines

Country: Australia

Tang Hsiang-Chien

Age: 93

Net Worth: $1.5 billion

Source: textiles, electronics

Country: Hong Kong

Charles Munger

Age: 93

Net Worth: $1.75 billion

Source: Berkshire Hathaway

Country: United States

David Murdock

Age: 93

Net Worth: $3 billion

Source: Dole, real estate

Country: United States

Saif Al Ghurair

Age: 93

Net Worth: $3.1 billion

Source: real estate, manufacturing

Country: United Arab Emirates

Sumner Redstone

Age: 93

Net Worth: $6.4 billion

Source: media

Country: United States

Stanley Perron

Age: 94

Net Worth: $1.9

Source: retail, property

Country: Australia

Liliane Bettencourt

Age: 94

Net Worth: $35 billion

Source: L'Oreal

Country: France

George Joseph

Age: 95

Net Worth: $1.4 billion

Source: insurance

Country: United States

David Consunji

Age: 95

Net Worth: $3.9 billion

Source: construction

Country: Philippines

Marcel Adams

Age: 96

Net Worth: $1.1 billion

Source: real estate

Country: Canada

Aloysio de Andrade Faria

Age: 96

Net Worth: $3.4 billion

Source: banking

Country: Brazil

Henry Hillman

Age: 98

Net Worth: $2.5 billion

Source: investments

Country: United States

Chang Yun Chung

Age: 98

Net Worth: $2.5 billion

Source: shipping

Country: Singapore

Maria Franca Fissola

Age: 99

Net Worth: $25 billion

Source: Nutella

 

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