Meet Alexandra Andresen, the youngest woman to have featured on Forbes's ranking of the world's wealthiest people.
Ranked at #1,475 along with her sister, her net worth has been valued at a whopping $1.2 billion! And she's just 19 years old!
Meet Alexandra Andresen, the youngest woman to have featured on Forbes's ranking of the world's wealthiest people.
Ranked at #1,475 along with her sister, her net worth has been valued at a whopping $1.2 billion! And she's just 19 years old!
A horse rider from Norway has become the world's youngest billionaire after amassing a $1.2billion fortune at the age of just 19.
Forbes magazine has named Alexandra Andresen, a professional dressage competitor, on their list of people from around the world worth at least one billion dollars.
It is the first time the teenager and her sister Katharina, aged 20, have appeared on the list and they are ranked as the 1,475th richest people in the world.
Alexandra inherited her fortune from her father, Johan F. Andresen who made his fortune in the tobacco industry. It's the first time that two teenagers - including her sister Katharina (20) - have been featured on the coveted list of the world's richest people.
It was in 2007 that the girls' father transferred 80% of his stake to his daughters in Fred Holdings, the biggest company in Norway. Considering this, the girls made their way into the list only when they came of age and started filing tax returns which made their fortunes open to public consideration.
Alexandra currently lives in Germany, and according to Daily Mail, she is a well-known rider of her horse 'Belamour' which has won her many competitions at the European Junior Riders Championships.
The 19-year-old is a responsible adult and understands that with great fortune comes greater responsibility. This is what she said in a recent interview:
"I feel a great responsibility. In a way I think that [am] not deserving of this, while I want to help develop Fred and make it even better. The fact that my family has resources has given me many opportunities especially in riding, because it requires a lot of capital. But it is not enough to have money to succeed."
She sure is living life queen-size and we can't help but feel constant pangs of jealousy.