Women Who Married Billionaires

Every woman worth her Cartier baubles knows that today a million just doesn’t go as far as it used to.  So apparently it is no longer enough getting hooked to a guy who has millions to spare - rather only a billionaire can deliver the goodies. Here are some women who went right for the crème de la crème and married billionaires.

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Melinda French Gates

Married to Bill Gates, the Software mogul and cofounder of Microsoft, Melinda French was working as a manager with the company when she met her future husband. The two got married on New Year’s Day in 1994 on the Hawaiian island of Lanai. Today the couple has three children and they live in Medina, Washington. Apart from raising her children, Melinda Gates remains busy with philanthropy since She is the co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Bill Gates is today the second richest man in the whole world and the richest man in USA. , The self-made billionaire currently enjoys a net worth of US$53 billion with Microsoft shares soaring by 50% in the last year and his investment vehicle Cascade continuing to rake in profits. However at present almost 60% of Gates’ fortune is held outside Microsoft with assets in Four Seasons Hotel, Auto Nation and Televisa.

Wendy Deng

A Chinese-born MBA graduate from Yale University, Wendy Deng is married to media mogul Rupert Murdoch. 39 year-old Deng met Murdoch at a company party while working as an executive at Hong Kong’s Star TV. The couple got married in 1999 within weeks of Murdoch getting his divorce from his third wife. Wendy now heads the strategy department at MySpace China which is part of her husband’s vast media empire. The couple lives in Manhattan with their two daughters, Grace Helen and Chloe.

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Rupert Murdoch is an Australian American billionaire who founded and continues to head the News Corporation, a conglomerate of television channels, newspapers and various other media companies. With a current net worth of $6.3 billion, Murdoch is ranked as the 117th richest person in the world according to Forbes Magazine.

Anne Wojcicki

Few people know that Apart from being married to Sergei Brin, co-founder of Google, Anne Wojcicki is herself highly qualified and a scientist working in the field of biotechnology. After graduating from the Yale University with a B.S in biology in 1996, Anne began overseeing healthcare investments, focusing on biotechnology companies. In 2006, she left the investing world to co-found 23andMe with Linda Avey. Anne married Sergei in the beach paradise of the Bahamas in May 2007 and since then she has encouraged Brin to take a definitive interest in the human genome project and her own company in particular.
Sergei Brin owes his place on the America’s richest men to the world’s most famous internet search engine Google which he famously started with partner Larry Page in a friend’s garage. Shares of the search giant shot up 70% in the past year, ballooning Brin’s net worth to US$17.5 billion. At just 36 years old, this former immigrant from Russia is also one of the world’s youngest billionaires.

Gail Golden

Before her marriage to billionaire financier Carl Icahn, Golden was an assistant to him for several years. The two married in 1999 soon after Icahn obtained a divorce from this first wife Liba. Since her marriage to the billionaire Golden has emerged as a businesswoman in her own right when she launched an online airline fare retailer Lowestfare.com. In 2002 Golden went ahead with founding "Gutsy Women Travel," a women-only tour company offering trips on five continents.

The son of a Jewish cantor and school teacher, Carl Icahn started out with his own securities firm and then went on to makes money as a hedge funds manager and private equity investor before buying majority shares in several companies. As of March 2010, Icahn owned assets worth $11 billion USD, making him the 24th richest man in the United States.

Anne Dias Griffin

Sometimes it is not only youth and beauty in a woman which catches the attention of single billionaires but rather a keen intellect and professional success to match their own. Such is the case with Anne Dias who before her marriage to billionaire Kenneth Griffin was a successful corporate executive herself. Born to French parents Dias graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown and got her M.B.A. from Harvard. After stints at reputed firms like Goldman Sachs, Fidelity and Soros Fund Management, In 2001, she founded Aragon Global Management, a Chicago hedge fund that now has $100 million in assets. Besides being a huge patron of the arts as well as a trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and New York's Whitney Museum, Dias Griffin is Also director of Friends of Island Academy, a program that reaches out to youth before their release from Rikers Island prison.

Kenneth Griffin on the other hand is the founder and CEO of Citadel Investment Group of hedge funds which rank amongst the largest and most successful hedge funds in the world. last year Griffin was estimated to be worth around $2 billion by Forbes.

Erica Baxter Packer

This 29 year-old former model shot into fame with her marriage to James Packer, the third richest man in Australia. Erica reportedly met James at the latter’s first wedding and the two tied the knot on 20 June 2007 in a lavish two-part ceremony hosted at the Antibes Town Hall on the French Riviera. The wedding made headlines for its cost which was rumored to have exceeded A$15 million. Around the time of her marriage Erica turned into singer and songwriter making her debut with the album Through Your Eyes which however met with little success. Currently the couple has two children Indigo and Jackson Lloyd.

Son of late media mogul Kerry Packer, James Packer owes his billionaire status to the inheritance of the Consolidated Press Holdings Limited which controls investments in a large array of companies in Australia. Currently Packer is estimated to be worth around A$3.6 billion.