Empress Wu Zetian was the first and only female emperor in Chinese history, and her wealth is estimated at $16 trillion in ...

When people discuss the richest individuals in history, the focus typically falls on today's tech giants and modern ...

Every year Forbes releases their list of the richest self-made women in America, and it’s a mix of household names and quiet giants. Women who have built empires from nothing, turned ideas into ...

Logline: Writer/director Thierry Klifa’s The Richest Woman in the World is inspired by the captivating real-life scandal surrounding Liliane Bettencourt, the heir to the L’Oreal fortune. Marianne ...

Isabelle Huppert sure likes to work. Why else would the person most likely to raise a regal hand were you to page “our greatest living actress,” in between the roles that might earn her that title, ...

The overwhelming majority of those who make it onto “richest people” lists—in all 50 states or the world—are men. This fact is unsurprising, considering the history of discriminatory workplace ...

The 10 wealthiest women in the world command a combined fortune of $527.8 billion. Measured against nations, they would rank 31st in GDP, just behind the United Arab Emirates. Yet they remain a ...