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The “world’s richest person” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos added a record breaking $13 billion (£10 billion) in a single day to his fortune. Since January, Bezos has become $74 billion richer to a grand total of $189 billion.
Bezos’s fortune has swelled by Amazon’s rising share price as hundreds of millions of people trapped by the lockdown ordering their needed stuff through the internet. Amazon is worth 70% more than at the start of the year. On Monday alone, the share price rose by 8%.

Bezos is now $71 billion richer than the “second richest man in the world”: Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Bezos owns 11% of the Amazon’s shares. Bezos would be even richer, if it wasn’t for the costly divorce from his ex-wife MacKenzie last year, who got 25% of his Amazon shares. The boom in Amazon’s share price, increased her fortune by $4.6 billion on Monday and she is now the “world’s 13th-richest person”.

While Bezos or Bill Gates are labelled the “richest person in the world” in reality their billions pale in comparison to Queen Elizabeth’s trillions: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/21/jeff-bezos-the-worlds-richest-man-added-10bn-to-his-fortune-in-just-one-day