4Heidi Horten –$3.1 Billion
She is the first and the last women in our top. Heidi Horten is the richest women in Austria.
She is the widow of businessman Helmut Horten, the men that founded the German department store business Horten AG.
How do you meet such a men? Well, their lives crossed in a hotel bar in 1959 when she was 19 and he was 30 years older.
She now spends time enjoying life and her passions, which are hunting and collecting art.
She is also known for owning one of world’s largest yachts, the 315-foot Carinthia VII and for selling a 35.5 carat diamond, once part of the crown jewels of Bavaria, for $24 million, at Christie’s.
At this moment his net worth is estimated at $ 3.1 Billion.
