Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Saturday, March 14th.

Today on Forbes, the world's richest woman.

After reclaiming the title of World's Richest Woman from French L'Oreal heiress Francoise

Bettencourt Myers on last year's list, Walmart heiress Alice Walton widened her lead on Forbes's annual

World's Billionaire's ranking in 26. She saw her fortune soar by an estimated $33 billion

over the past 12 months to $134 billion, as the retail giant stock jumped by 30%. Before being overtaken by Walton on the

2025 list, Betancourt Myers, the granddaughter of L'Oreal founder Eugene Scholar, who passed away in

1957, had been the world's richest woman on Forbes's annual rankings since 2020.

She got richer over the past year, too, by an estimated $18.4 billion, and is now worth

$100 billion, the shares of her family's cosmetics conglomerate climbed by 13%.

But that wasn't enough to catch Walton.

The 76-year-old Walton, the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, who passed away in 1992, rose one spot on the overall ranking

to become the 14th richest person on the planet, while Bettencourt Myers, who is 72 years old,

remained at number 20 on our list.

The two heiresses are the only women in the $100 billion club, those with fortune spanning 12 digits,

which now boasts a record 20 members, up from 15 last year. That includes Walton's brothers, Rob Walton, who is 81 years old,

and Jim Walton, who is 77 years old, who rank just ahead of their sister on the list,

worth an estimated $146 billion and $143 billion, respectively. The Walton family owns around 44% of Walmart's stock.

Rob Walton succeeded his father as chairman and served in the role for more than two decades before handing the reins to his son-in-law, Greg Penner, in 2015, and retiring from Walmart's

board in 2024.

Jim Walton still chairs the family's Arvest Bank Group after being replaced as a director of Walmart

by his son, Stuart Walton, in 2016.

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