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a third straight year, the rest of the world's billionaires are looking
up at Bill Gates and his bulging bankbook. Amancio Ortega, 69, the
world's wealthiest realtor, ranked No.
Bill Gates tops list of world’s richest for 17th time with a $75B fortune
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 8:04 PM
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Ted S. Warren/AP Bill Gates has been named the world’s richest man yet again on Forbes’ annual ranking of the richest people on earth.
HO/REUTERS Amancio Ortega, 69, the world’s wealthiest realtor, ranked No. 2 with $67 billion.
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The 60-year-old Gates, with a $75 billion fortune, claimed the Forbes top spot for the 17th time in the last 21 years — and that after losing $4.2 billion of his wealth in the last 12 months.
Closing fast was Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who jumped from No. 16 to No. 6 after adding another $11.2 billion to his vast wealth.
Amancio Ortega, 69, the world’s wealthiest retailer, ranked No. 2 with $67 billion, followed by Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim Helu and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos in the top five.
The highest-ranking New Yorker was Michael Bloomberg, the former three-term mayor and presidential hopeful, with an estimated net worth at $40 billion.
The Donald was No. 121 among the list of America’s richest, behind one of his fellow New York real estate titans — Richard LeFrak, ranked 76th with a fortune of $6.3 billion.
Forbes, in its 30th annual ranking of the rich, reported a total of 1,810 billionaires around the globe, down from the record total of 1,826 in 2014. The U.S. still boasts the most with 540 billionaires, followed by the 251 in China.
Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images Amazon’s Jeff Bezos was also among the top five richest in the world.
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The aggregate net worth of the world’s billionaires is down is down $570 million, too, to a still-staggering $6.4 trillion.
The newest and youngest billionaire is a 19-year-old Norwegian heiress, Alexandara Andresen.
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