9. Sonia Gandhi – $19.2 Billion
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Sonia Gandhi is the widow of the former Prime Minster of India, Rajiv Gandhi, and after her husband’s assassination in 1991, Congress leaders invited her to take over the government but she refused. Finally, in 1997 she decided to cave and was elected President of the Congress Party. With an estimated net worth over $19 billion, she was listed as the third most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes.