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Billionaires with no kids to leave their fortunes to

The heirless super-rich ranked
Yang Huiyan: $3.1 billion (£2.4bn)
Walter P.J. Droege: $3.5 billion (£2.7bn)
Pang Kang: $7.4 billion (£5.8bn)
Charles Butt: $7.6 billion (£5.9bn)
Ma Jianrong: $7.7 billion (£6bn)
David Geffen: $8 billion (£6.3bn)
Alexander Otto: $8.8 billion (£6.8bn)
Carl Cook: $10.3 billion (£8bn)
Udo and Harald Tschira: $10.4 billion (£8.1bn) combined
Mikhail Prokhorov: $11 billion (£8.6bn)
Giorgio Armani: $12 billion (£9.3bn)
Wang Wenyin: $12.7 billion (£9.9bn)
Wang Wei: $13.4 billion (£10.5bn)
Alisher Usmanov: $13.6 billion (£10.6bn)
Karl Albrecht Jr: $15.3 billion (£11.9bn)
Jan Koum: $16.1 billion (£12.5bn)
Dustin Moskovitz: $17.8 billion (£13.9bn)
Eduardo Saverin: $28 billion (£21.8bn)
Germán Larrea Mota Velasco: $28.1 billion (£22bn)
Lukas Walton: $30.5 billion (£23.8bn)
Klaus-Michael Kuehne: $41 billion (£32bn)
Alice Walton: $78.1 billion (£61bn)
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The heirless super-rich ranked

Some lucky descendants stand to inherit a fortune from their super-rich parents. But not every billionaire has heirs to pass their money on to...

Read on to meet 22 of the world's wealthiest billionaires who don't have children. All dollar amounts in US dollars and historic currency conversions correct for the time.

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Tom Belger

12 June 2024

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