Monday, December 20, 2010

The Rich Girls Club

I'm not sure about you, but there aren't many rich girls on Forbes' Billionaires List 2010. There are a few women though, and only a few Bachelorettes. In fact, most of the women that are Billionaires inherited their Fortunes from Daddy, Boyfriend or late Husband. Of the Top 10 richest female Billionaires, the Top 5 all inherited their fortunes. 

Here's one:  Alicia Koplowitz, she's worth more than $2 billion currently.


Alicia and her younger sister, Esther, are both billionaires, and inherited their company 'Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas' from their late father. Both of their husbands ran the company from the 1970s until 1989, when both marriages ended. Since then, the sisters ran the company jointly until 1997 when Alicia sold her share for $800 million to Esther. Alicia lost half her fortune in the 2008 economic downturn, and has only recouped $100 million since. Her single sister has been linked romantically to the heir of Spanish aristocratic house of Alba, the Duque de Huescar.

Now, Alicia is a Bachelorette, so we thought we'd go surfing and find her a love interest.

Here's what turned up:  Michael Bloomberg.



Alicia, meet Michael, New York City mayor.  He owns 88% of the financial data and news outfit he founded in 1982:  Bloomberg LP.  Michael was born in Boston, and is son of an accountant.  He has an M.B.A. from Harvard (what a surprise!), and also has an engineering degree from Johns Hopkins.  He became a trader at Salomon Brothers in the 1970s, and quit with $10 million in stock. (I'd quit smoking too if I was paid that much - quip.)  He has given away nearly $1 billion to charity in the past five years.  Michael created financial information services firm Innovative Market Systems to sell financial data and analytical tools to Wall Street.
And we even found Alicia a girlfriend too, I mean, single girls need a friend when they go out right?

Alicia, meet Oprah Winfrey, also worth just over $2 billion...we all know Oprah Winfrey, don't we?

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