The D.C. area is home to 11 billionaires who made the 2019 Forbes list, including the region’s newest billionaire resident, President Donald Trump.
Forbes’ 33rd-annual ranking of the world’s billionaires counts 2,153 of them worldwide, down from 2,208 in 2018. The total net worth of this year’s billionaires is $8.7 trillion, down from $9.1 trillion in 2018, the first decrease in billionaire wealth since 2016.
The average net worth of billionaires on the 2019 list is $4 billion, down from $4.1 billion in 2018.
The top of the list remains Jeff Bezos. The Amazon founder, who bought a $32 million mansion in Kalorama, has an estimated net worth of $131 billion, up $19 billion from 2018.
Here are the D.C. area’s billionaires, where they rank this year, and their net worth, as estimated by Forbes:
* No. 33 Jacqueline Mars – $23.9 billion
* No. 272 Steven Rales – $6 billion
* No. 365 Ted Lerner and family – $4.9 billion
* No. 597 Mitchel Rales – $3.6 billion
* No. 597 (tie) Bernard Saul II – $3.6 billion
* No. 715 Donald Trump – $3.1 billion
* No. 838 William Conway Jr. – $2.7 billion
* No. 838 (tie) Daniel D’aniello – $2.7 billion
* No. 838 (tie) David Rubenstein – $2.7 billion
* No. 1,057 Daniel Snyder – $2.2 billion
* No. 1,717 Steve Case – $1.3 billion
* No. 1,941 Ted Leonsis – $1.1 billion
Baltimore can claim two billionaires as well:
* No. 472 Stephen Bisciotti – $4.2 billion
* No. 1,227 Kevin Plank – $1.9 billion
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