WASHINGTON – With a fortune worth $110 billion, Amazon founder JeffBezos is the world’s richest man and tops a 2018 Forbes Magazine list ofbillionaires.

Bezos is “the first person to top $100 billion as number one on the Forbeslist of the World’s Billionaires,” the magazine said.

Philanthopist and Microsoft founder *Bill Gates* is second ($90 billion),investment guru *Warren Buffet *third ($84 billion), *Bernard Arnault andfamily* fourth ($72 billion), and Facebook founder-CEO *Mark Zuckerberg* fifth($71 billion).

US President Donald Trump is valued at $3.1 billion.

Indian industry titan *Mukesh Ambani*, the chairman of Reliance IndustriesLimited, is 19th on the list. He’s valued at $40.1 billion.

Ambani was ranked 20th last yearlink>.His wealth has grown by over 8 billion dollars.

*MAJORITY OF BILLIONAIRES MEN*

The Forbes list was dominated by male public figures. In fact, all of thetop ten billionaires were men.

With a fortune of $46 billion, Alice Walton, the American heiress to theWalmart empire, is the highest ranked woman (16th) in the list. Othersinclude L’Oréal chief Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, BMW co-owner SusanneKlatten, and Mars co-owner Jacqueline Mars.