Elon Musk Tops Forbes List as Richest Ever with $839B Fortune
TL;DR
Elon Musk tops Forbes’ 2026 World Billionaires List with an $839 billion net worth—the first person to exceed $800 billion and a potential step toward a trillionaire future—while Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg hold the next spots; newcomers like Dr. Dre and Beyoncé appear, and overall billionaire wealth reaches a new high driven by AI and other markets.
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