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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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Pang Kang: $7.4 billion (£5.8bn)

Pang Kang, 68, has no son or daughter to inherit his stake in China’s largest soy sauce manufacturer. He joined Foshan Haitian Flavouring & Food as a graduate, working his way up to chairman. Thousands of employees and now smart robots produce more than 200 different condiments at its factories, from oyster sauce to oil.
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Tom Belger

12 June 2024

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