The Ziff Family – $15 Billion.
Though their name sounds like something pulled from a science fiction novel, the Ziff family are entirely real and completely self made. The Ziff family can trace their fortune all the way back to 1927 where grandfather William SR. first started his own publishing business. From there the company continued to grow until it was sold for a solid $1.4 Billion. The Ziff brothers, Dirk, Daniel, and Robert, would then re-invest this money and improve it exponentially to their current net worth.
The Ziff Family
The Lauder family – $16.5 Billion.
The Lauder family fortune was first established back in 1946 through the work of Estee Lauder. Lauder lived and worked in Queens, New York where she started his first business: selling her own homemade skin creams to women who were in hair salons. It wasn’t long until Estee started up her own company, Estee Lauder Cosmetics, and from there the rest is history. As you should know, the company now has 30 different high quality brands under their umbrella and it is still being run by the family.
The Lauder family
