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This isn't the first time the rapper and the retailer have worked together: as longtime fans of Kanye's are already aware, he worked at a Gap store as a teenager in Chicago.

There's been a shakeup near the top of the list of the richest women in the world. Thanks to some surges in the stock price of Amazon, MacKenzie Bezos has moved up the ranks.

Musk made his pledge to get rid of all his real estate in the first part of May, which is also when this property was originally listed for $30 million, meaning Ding got a slight $1 million discount on the property.

If you had asked us back in December or January what the hot new sector creating new billionaires would be – well, suffice it to say we would never have guessed rubber gloves. 2020 is proving to be strange in so many ways.

Instacart's 33-year-old founder, Apoorva Mehta, is now a billionaire thanks to the surge in demand for Instacart's services as well as a new funding round on June 11 of $225 million. He now has a net worth of $1.2 billion.

On Wednesday, a court in Shanghai sentenced billionaire real-estate developer Wang Zhenhua to five years in prison for child molestation. Wang was arrested last summer on charges that he assaulted a nine-year-old girl.

In light of the fight for racial justice after the killings of George Floyd and way too many other unarmed black people, Netflix founder Reed Hastings has made the biggest donation to racial justice, in the form of a $120 million gift to America's HBCUs.

Josh Harris is a billionaire. He's also the owner of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. Now, he's looking to add another professional sports franchise to his portfolio – and he very much runs his burgeoning sports empire like he runs his global investment management firm.

The billionaire Barclay family is anchored by 85-year-old twin brothers David and Frederick Barclay. The twins amassed the family fortune together in hotels, online retail, and newspapers. They also haven't spoken to each other in years.

He Xiangjian is one of the wealthiest people in China. He founded the Midea Group, one of the biggest manufacturers of home appliances. Last weekend, he was the target of an attempted kidnapping at his luxury villa in Foshan city, in southern Guangdong province.

The money is supposedly to make sure that North "won't have to work a day in her life." The source goes on: "[Kanye] wants her to create, innovate, and leave her mark on this world. And he's planning for her future as we speak."

One of the wealthiest women in the U.K. is also the highest-paid executive and highest-earning female CEO in the world. Denise Coates is the founder and co-CEO of betting firm Bet365.com.

Thanks to the recent Amazon stock surge, MacKenzie Bezos is now worth $50 billion. This makes her the 4th richest woman in the world behind Alice Walton, Julia Flesher Koch, and Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers.

Samsung's billionaire vice chairman, Jay Y. Lee (Lee Jae-yong), is still battling it out in court during his legal dispute with South Korean prosecutors over allegations of bribery and corruption that date back to 2015.

It was all part of a law enforcement operation called Operation Blue Agave, a project by both Mexico's Ministry of Finance and the United States' Drug Enforcement Administration.