8. Giuliana Benetton – Italy
Net worth: $2.1 billion – As of March 2012
Source: Benetton, self-made
Age: 74
Four members of the Italian Benetton Family founded the Benetton Group S.p.A. fashion company in 1965: The three brothers and one sister Luciano, Carlo and Gilberto. The $2.7 billion (sales) clothing company sells brands like United Colors of Benetton, Sisley. Edizione, the family holding company, owns stakes in Atlantia, one of world’s largest toll-road companies, and Autogrill restaurants, which serve customers on highways and in airports around the world. Giuliana originally knitted sweaters that brother Luciano would then peddle by bicycle.
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