Musk’s fortune soared by a record $170 billion in 2024–putting him an all-time high dollar amount ahead of Jeff Bezos, the world’s second richest person.

Today, names like Elon Musk and Bill Gates dominate conversations about wealth, but their combined net worth is absolutely nothing compared to one of China’s emperors. Wu Zetian, better known as Empress Wu, was not only the first and only female emperor of China but also the richest woman to have ever lived.

The donation was worth $108 million, and was made as part of his "year-end tax planning" to unnamed charities.

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Figures including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg became even wealthier over the past 12 months amid AI buzz, rate cuts, and Trump's win.

Elon Musk, world's richest man, has a net worth with over $400 million. Musk’s net worth stood at $442.1 billion, up $213 billion from the start of 2024. After Musk, the second richest person is Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos whose net worth is $251 billion and the gap between the net worth of two tech leaders is surprising.