Net Worth: $25 billion
Source: Fashion retail
Residence: Spain
• Style maven lords over Inditex; fashion firm, which operates under several brand names including Zara, Massimo Dutti and Stradivarius, has 4,500 stores in 73 countries including new spots in Mexico and Syria.
• Set up joint venture with Tata Group subsidiary to enter India in 2010.
• Betting on Florida real estate: bought Coral Gables office tower that is currently home to Bacardi USA.
• Also owns a luxury apartment complex in Miami; properties in Madrid, Paris, London and Lisbon, a horse-jumping circuit, an interest in a soccer league; has investments in gas, tourism and banks.
• Railway worker's son started as a gofer in a shirt store.
• With then-wife Rosalia Mera, also a billionaire, started making dressing gowns and lingerie in living room.
• Shuns neckties and fanfare.
• Daughter Marta works for Inditex; speculation has it she's being groomed to eventually replace her father.
Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109029/worlds-billionaires-2010
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