Celebrity 100: World’s Most Powerful Celebrities
It was a year of conquest in Hollywood. The worldwide box office soared to a record $25.8 billion, buoyed by global blockbusters like Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Sony’s Da Vinci Code. Madonna reclaimed her title as the mightiest force in music, thanks to her record-breaking [...]

Celebrity 100: Top Ten perennials in Forbes list of actors, athletes and personalities
The stars of Hollywood commandeer the headlines and command the biggest bucks. Some, like Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, are Top Ten perennials in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list of actors, athletes and personalities. This year the third Pirates of the Caribbean film [...]

World’s Richest People, the fairer sex, billionaires
When it comes to the ranks of the world’s billionaires, the fairer sex is still very much the rarer sex. In 2008, Forbes counted 99 female billionaires, 16 more than last year, but still representing slightly less than 9% of the world’s 1,125 billionaires. Just making it into the [...]

World’s Billionaire Women, Marry the Richest Woman
Those honorable traits plus extraordinary wealth make these fascinating women especially worthy of our admiration–and envy. In honor of these women, we selected the dozen we’d most like to be, or at least meet.
Liliane Bettencourt
$22.9 billion
France
Daughter of L’Oreal founder Eugene Schueller, a man who is said to have a [...]