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Billion-dollar donation from Netflix's Reed Hastings leads 2024's list of biggest gifts
Read full article: Billion-dollar donation from Netflix's Reed Hastings leads 2024's list of biggest giftsNetflix co-founder Reed Hastings and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg made the largest contributions in 2024, and financial aid, especially for medical students, got most of the money.
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More female billionaires than ever before
Read full article: More female billionaires than ever beforeThe new Forbes list of the world's billionaires includes more women than ever before. 256 women made the list out of 2,208 billionaires worldwide. That's just a few billion ahead of the $42.2 billion of Françoise Bettencourt Meyers of the L’Oréal family. The New York Post reports 72 of the women on the billionaires list were self-made women, which is also the most ever. The oldest female billionaire is Ana Maria Brescia Cafferata, 93, from Peru who has $1.5 billion, and the youngest is 21-year-old Norwegian, Alexandra Andresen, with $1.47 billion.