Iris Balbina Fontbona González (born 1942/1943) is a Chilean billionaire businesswoman, the widow of Andrónico Luksic Abaroa, from inheriting Antofagasta PLC. She is the wealthiest person in Chile, one of the fifth wealthiest in Latin America, and the 101st wealthiest person in the world.
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Fontbona is one of the richest people in the world, missing the list of top 100 on the Forbes list by one spot in 2016. She was the fifth wealthiest person in Latin America in 2016. She is the richest person in Chile, with a net worth as of March 2017 of $12.9 billion.
In 2016, her wealth was estimated at US$9.9 billion, a decrease from the previous year. She consistently ranks as one of the top ten richest women in the world on a list that generally includes only heiress.
In 2014, Forbes considered Iris Fontbona & family to be the 4th richest family in Latin America. She is the only woman to appear on Forbes list from Latin America. For several years, she was one of only two billionares in Chile on the list, before being joined by nine others in 2016. In 2015, she was ranked 82nd on the Forbes list. In 2013, Fontbona was ranked the 35th richest person on Bloomberg’s Billionare List. This position fell to 83rd in 2016. Fontbana lost a quarter of her wealth in 2012.
Fontbona acquired her wealth following the death of her husband, Andrónico Luksic Abaroa, in 2005 from cancer.
The bulk of her husband’s business went to their three sons, Guillermo, Jean Paul and Andronico. Jean Paul manages Antofagasta, Luksic Group’s copper mining group and one of the largest mining companies in the world.
Iris Fontbona net worth: Iris Fontbona is a Chilean businesswoman who has a net worth of $14 billion. Iris Fontbona acquired that wealth by marrying Andronico Luksic, who built one of the biggest copper mining companies in the world, Antofagasta. Fontbona had three children with Luksic, some of whom are involved in the company. She first came into the public light when marrying her late husband, prominent businessman, Antionio Andrónico Luksic Abaroa. The duo received a large amount of public spotlight when they wed, as Fontbona was only 18 years old. She then became the majority stock holder and a multi billionaire when her husband passed away in 2005 and left his ventures, the company Quinenco, to her and their children. Luksic is said to have started once of the world’s most prominent copper mining company, but also invested in mining, financial efforts, industrial and beverage industries. At the time of his death, Luksic was the richest man in Chile and the fourth-richest person in Latin America, as well as the 132nd richest person in the world. For the past nine years, Fontbona has helped run the company, along with her children. She remains in Chile to run her business ventures. Together Fontbona and her late husband had three sons, Jean-Paul, Andronico, and Guillermo. However, Guillermo passed away from lung cancer in 2013, leaving his son Nicolas to take over as CEO of the Quinenco company. A title he has held for the past two years.
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