Jeff Bezos Tops Forbes List of Billionaires

Jeff Bezos speaks at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington on Oct. 22, 2019. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Not even a nearly $40 billion divorce can topple Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos from being the world’s richest person.

For the third year in a row, Bezos landed the top spot on Forbes’ rank of global billionaires. His net worth fell $18 billion last year to $113 billion, according to Forbes, partially due to his high-profile split from MacKenzie Bezos. Amazon’s stock rose 15 percent last year, helping offset some of that loss.