NY Home To 72 Of America's Richest Billionaires

NEW YORK — America’s richest keep getting richer. The wealthiest Americans on the annual Forbes 400 list grew their combined net worth by just over 2 percent from the previous year, making them worth $2.96 trillion in 2019.

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is once again at the top of the list. His ex-wife, Mackenzie Bezos, who got 25 percent of the couple’s shares in Amazon as part of their divorce settlement, is now the 15th richest person in America, according to the list.

Falling between the Bezos barons is former New York City mayor and media magnate Michael Bloomberg, who's at No. 8 with a net worth of $53.4 billion.

He's among 72 people in New York who are among the 400 richest in America in 2019. Other notable New Yorkers making the cut include News Corp. maven Rupert Murdoch, Hudson Yards developer Stephen Ross and the financier George Soros.

According to Forbes, the minimum net worth to qualify for the list is $2.1 billion. The average wealth of those on the list increased by $200 million to $7.4 billion, Forbes writes.

With the vast amounts of wealth in the pockets of those on the exclusive list, Forbes notes that a number of high-profile billionaires such as Kylie Jenner and Michael Jordan, didn’t even make the list.

Here are the New York billionaires on the list:

• No. 8: Michael Bloomberg, $53.4 B
• No. 13: Julia Koch & family, $41 B
• No. 21: Jim Simons, $21.6 B
• No. 24: Rupert Murdoch & family, $19.1 B
• No. 25: Leonard Lauder, $18.8 B
• No. 29: Stephen Schwarzman, $17.7 B
• No. 30: Carl Icahn, $17.6 B
• No. 37: Donald Newhouse, $12.8 B
• No. 56: George Soros, $8.6 B
• No. 63: Leon Black, $7.7 B
• No. 63: Ronald Perelman,$7.7 B
• No. 66: Stephen Ross, $7.6 B
• No. 70: Valerie Mars, $7.4 B
• No. 75: David Shaw, $7.3 B
• No. 91: Israel Englander, $6.6 B
• No. 95: James Chambers, $6.4 B
• No. 95: Katharine Rayner, $6.4 B
• No. 95: Margaretta Taylor, $6.4 B
• No. 100: Ralph Lauren, $6.3 B
• No. 108: David Siegel, $6.1 B
• No. 112: Henry Kravis, $6 B
• No. 125: Charles Dolan & family, $5.3 B
• No. 125: Bruce Kovner, $5.3 B
• No. 131: Daniel Ziff, $5 B
• No. 131: Robert Ziff, $5 B
• No. 144: Leonard Stern, $4.8 B
• No. 145: Stanley Druckenmiller, $4.7 B
• No. 148: Sheldon Solow, $4.6 B
• No. 150: Chase Coleman, III, $4.5 B
• No. 154: Joshua Harris, $4.4 B
• No. 154: Julian Robertson, Jr., $4.4 B
• No. 159: Jeremy Jacobs, Sr. & family, $4.3 B
• No. 159: Jane Lauder, $4.3 B
• No. 159: Ronald Lauder, $4.3 B
• No. 159: Alejandro Santo Domingo, $4.3 B
• No. 159: Andres Santo Domingo, $4.3 B
• No. 168: Barry Diller, $4.2 B
• No. 168: John Paulson, $4.2 B
• No. 179: Richard LeFrak & family, $4.1 B
• No. 179: Jeff Sutton, $4.1 B
• No. 187: Ken Langone, $4 B
• No. 187: Jerry Speyer, $4 B
• No. 187: Jon Stryker, $4 B
• No. 207: Ben Ashkenazy, $3.8 B
• No. 225: Jonathan Gray, $3.6 B
• No. 225: Marc Rowan, $3.6 B
• No. 239: Charles Cohen, $3.5 B
• No. 239: Paul Singer, $3.5 B
• No. 250: Allan Goldman, $3.4 B
• No. 250: Jane Goldman, $3.4 B
• No. 250: Amy Goldman Fowler, $3.4 B
• No. 250: Diane Kemper, $3.4 B
• No. 268: Daniel Och, $3.2 B
• No. 268: Don Vultaggio & family, $3.2 B
• No. 275: Noam Gottesman, $3.1 B
• No. 275: Richard Sands, $3.1 B
• No. 287: Ira Rennert, $3 B
• No. 296: Robert Sands, $2.9 B
• No. 296: Mortimer Zuckerman, $2.9 B
• No. 306: William Lauder, $2.8 B
• No. 306: Daniel Loeb, $2.8 B
• No. 319: John Catsimatidis, $2.7 B
• No. 319: Aerin Lauder, $2.7 B
• No. 319: Thomas Secunda, $2.7 B
• No. 342: David Walentas, $2.5 B
• No. 355: Ron Baron, $2.4 B
• No. 363: David Gottesman, $2.3 B
• No. 363: Stewart Rahr, $2.3 B
• No. 370: James Dinan, $2.2 B
• No. 370: Howard Marks, $2.2 B
• No. 370: Vincent Viola, $2.2 B
• No. 388: Julio Mario Santo Domingo, III, $2.1 B

See the full list and read more via Forbes.

Patch editor Feroze Dhanoa contributed to this report.