For the second straight year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is at the top of Forbes ranking of the world’s billionaires. Bezos increased his net worth to 131-billion-dollars, up 19-billion-dollars since last year. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are in the second and third spots. Bernard Arnault stayed in the fourth spot and remained as the richest person in Europe. Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico rounded out the top five. Twenty-one-year-old Kylie Jenner made the list for the first time and is the youngest billionaire in the world. She owns Kylie Cosmetics, the beauty business that did an estimated $360-million in sales last year. Forbes says there are more than 21-hundred billionaires on its 2019 list, which is actually down from over 22-hundred in 2018. Their total combined net worth this year is eight-point-seven-trillion-dollars, down from nine-point-one-trillion-dollars last year.
