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If we know all the names of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Bernard Arnault, there are not only men in the wealthy classification of this world. But women represent only a little more than 13% of the billionaire classification worldwide. However, Forbes Recalled a few weeks ago that they have never been so rich. Big change on the program, The Frenchwoman Françoise Bettencourt Meyersrichest woman in the world For four consecutive years, has given way. Indeed, the heiress of L’Oréal, whose fortune has increased by $ 19 billion in the last 12 months – which brings its net fortune to $ 99.5 billion – is preceded by Alice Walton who becomes the richest woman on the planet. But who is she?
Alice Walton is none other than the only daughter of the founder of Walmart, Sam Walton. Arriving at first place in the classification of women the richest in the world in 2018 and 2020, this art enthusiast again left its place in Françoise Bettencourt Meyers thereafter. But since September 2024, she has been sitting again on the first step of the podium, with an estimated fortune at $ 107.5 billion (around 94.4 billion euros). A riding of riding, she is also very committed to philanthropy and public health. It is placed as the 13th world fortune according to Forbes. “She is the one that looks like me the most – an anti -conformist – but even more unpredictable than me“noted her father, whose family empire she inherited. After a brief foray into finance, she chooses to devote herself fully to her passion: American art. “”She is only 10 years old when she offers herself a reproduction of Blue Nude from Picasso, bought for … 25 cents. Thus is born his thunderbolt for art“said Madame Figaro about it. The tone is set.
Alice Walton therefore built her own legitimized in the world of art. A world far from that of large distribution in which his father made his success. In 2011, she inaugurated the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in her hometown of Bentonville, in Arkansas. Both for the magnitude of the collection and for its location outside of classic cultural circuits, this is a more than daring bet. In this house sheltered by the woods of Arkansas, we enter for free. We then discover the works of Hopper, Rockwell or even O’Keeffe. The only daughter of Sam Walton’s vision of democratizing art. Without devaluing national artistic heritage. His peers salutes his determination, despite the few criticisms of the use of his fortune to acquire coveted masterpieces. The world Who then evoked this subject wrote: “Such a masterpiece taking away from the gaze of connoisseurs to disappear in the Arkansas Ploucs” (sic).
-Alice Walton: This is what made her the richest woman in the world
Among its many riches and heritage, there is a Texan ranch of around 580 hectares in Millsap, where it raised cutting horses. Again, his flair is more than rented. Indeed, it would have the ability to detect exceptional foals. The one who will sell this property in 2015, in order to devote herself fully to art, may be seated on a colossal fortune, she keeps a sober lifestyle, reports Forbes. A fortune that continues to increase. Indeed, it is her shareholder position in Walmart who makes her the richest woman in the world. The 74 -year -old woman has never served as a ruling office in the paternal company but has a significant share of capital. She held more than $ 11 billion in shares in 2016 (around 9.7 billion euros) and nine years later, in 2025, her fortune was multiplied by ten, reaching $ 121 billion (around 107 billion euros). Thanks to a “spectacular increase“ Walmart action, “which has climbed 47 % since January 2024“, as specified by the American magazine.
2025 also marks a new step For philanthropic. Next to the Crystal Bridges museum, Alice Walton intends to open the doors of the Alice L. Walton Medicine School. This one has the ambition of “train allopathic doctors according to an integrative health approach“, Precise Madame Figaro. On the political ideology side, Alice Walton funded both the Republican and Democratic parties.
