Apparently it's possible to be a billionaire and escape the
notice of billionaire rankings for some time.
Bloomberg News revealed on Monday that the reclusive Elaine Tettemer
Marshall, 70, of Dallas, is the fourth-richest woman in the country and
69th-richest woman in the world. She has never before appeared on an
international wealth ranking, despite being worth more than $12.7 billion,
according to Bloomberg.
That makes her 222,807 times richer than the median U.S.
household.
Marshall's billions come from her 15 percent stake in Koch
Industries. She secured her fortune by marrying into wealth and gained control
of the stake after her husband E. Pierce Marshall, who inherited it from his
father, died in 2006. Strangely enough, she is the daughter-in-law of Anna
Nicole Smith, the late model and stripper who launched a series of lawsuits
against the Marshalls to try to secure part of that fortune…
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