Country: France
Source of wealth: L'Oreal
At age 90, Liliane Bettencourt is the world's richest woman, and enters the top ten list of the world's wealthiest people for the first time since 1999. She and her family own over 30% of L'Oreal, which her father founded.
2. Christy Walton // Net worth: $28.2 billion
Country: U.S.
Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
Christy Walton's net worth reached new highs as Wal-Mart stock jumped in 2012. She remains the richest woman in the United States. Christy inherited her wealth when husband John Walton, a former Green Beret and Vietnam war medic, died in an airplane crash in 2005.
Country: U.S.
Source of wealth: Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton gave $1.7 million to a Washington D.C. charter schools initiative alongside fellow billionaires Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer. The Walton family's most generous philanthropist, her ambitious Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., opened in 2011 featuring works donated from her personal collection--which is valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Country: Chile
Source of wealth: Mining
Billionaire Andronico Luksic died of cancer in 2005, leaving his business empire in the care of his wife, Iris Fontbona, and his three sons: Jean-Paul, Andronico, and Guillermo Luksic. The Luksic family controls Antofagasta, one of the world's largest copper miners.
5. Georgina Rinehart // Net worth: $17 billion
Country: Australia
Source of wealth: Mining
Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart is still the richest woman in the Asia-Pacific region, even though falling iron ore prices have shaved $1 billion off her net worth.
6. Jacqueline Mars // Net worth: $17 billion
Country: U.S.
Source: Mars candy
Jacqueline Mars and her two brothers, John and Forrest Jr, are the third generation to own Mars, Inc. The siblings inherited the company in 1999 when their father died. Mars is the largest candy company in the world, with an estimated $33 billion in sales, thanks in part to its $23 billion acquisition of gum maker Wrigley's in 2008.
Country: Germany
Source of wealth: BMW
Susanne Klatten, Germany's richest woman, inherited a 12.6% stake in automaker BMW from her late father Herbert Quandt, who rescued the company from bankruptcy decades ago. Susanne, her brother Stefan Quandt and her mother Johanna Quandt together own nearly 50% of BMW, which has continued to grow despite weakness in Europe thanks to sales in the U.S. and China.
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