{"id":213480,"date":"2025-09-09T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213480\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:27:09","slug":"fort-worth-billionaire-alice-walton-is-richest-u-s-woman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213480\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth billionaire Alice Walton is richest U.S. woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

America’s wealthiest billionaires are $1.2 trillion richer in 2025, bringing their collective worth to a staggering $6.6 trillion. And Fort Worth’s own Alice Walton <\/strong>is leading the charge as the wealthiest woman in America, according to the new Forbes 400.<\/p>\n

Walmart heiress Walton, 75, simultaneously holds the title as the richest woman in the world<\/a> in 2025. She’s the 15th wealthiest person in the U.S., and the third richest Texan, Forbes says.<\/p>\n

The annual Forbes 400<\/a> list is a definitive ranking of the wealthiest Americans, using interviews, financial data, and documentation provided by billionaires and their companies.<\/p>\n

The publication estimates Walton’s net worth at $106 billion (up from $89.2 billion<\/a> last year) and proclaims her as the first female centibillionaire (a person with a 12-digit fortune) in America. Now that’s wealth.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s been a year unlike any we\u2019ve seen in the four decades we\u2019ve tracked America\u2019s billionaire class,\u201d said Forbes senior editor Chase Peterson-Withorn in a press release. “The super-rich at the very top are richer than ever \u2014 and between the White House and the booming stock market, they\u2019re as powerful as they\u2019ve ever been.”<\/p>\n

Walton is the only daughter of late Walmart founder Sam Walton, though she is currently prioritizing her Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art<\/a> and the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in her native Bentonville, Arkansas. Forbes still lists her residence as Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

“In July, the heiress welcomed the inaugural class of 48 four-year MD students to her new Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Arkansas, after spending at least $250 million on the project since 2023,” Forbes said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Walton has retained her title of America’s richest woman for most of the last decade, having been beaten in the rankings just once<\/a>, by Julia Koch<\/strong>, the widow of the late philanthropist and businessman David Koch.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the list of the top five wealthiest American women for 2025, and their net worth, are No. 2 Julia Koch & family<\/strong> ($81.2 billion); No. 3 Jacqueline Mars<\/strong> ($42.2 billion); No. 4 Miriam Adelson & family<\/strong> ($37.9 billion), and No. 5 Abigail Johnson<\/strong> ($35 billion).<\/p>\n

\"Alice Alice Walton (second from left) with Olivia Walton, Annie Leibovitz, and Awol Erizku at a 2023 event at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Photo by Wesley Hitt\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Richest Texans<\/strong>
In all, 43 Texas billionaires made it on the 2025 Forbes 400 list, and 19 are based in Dallas-Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

The richest person in America in 2025 is none other than Austin-based Elon Musk<\/strong>. Musk, 54, saw his net worth skyrocket to $428 billion this year, or $184 billion more than his 2024 net worth. He claimed the No. 1 spot for the fourth time.<\/p>\n

New to the list is biotech billionaire David Dean Halbert<\/strong> of Colleyville. Halbert, 69, earned his billionaire status after his diagnostics firm, Caris Life Sciences, went public<\/a> on the Nasdaq in June. Forbes estimates his net worth at $4.9 billion.<\/p>\n

Here’s how the rest of Dallas-Fort Worth’s billionaires fared on this year’s list: <\/p>\n