Not much of a surprise here...but the diamond industry has its fair share of representatives on Forbes recently published list of world's richest people.
Meet 3 diamond billionaires.
Ranked at 158 on the list is Nicky Oppenheimer and family of South Africa. Nicky, who is 61 years old, is the CEO of De Beers and has a net worth estimated at $5 billion.
Nicky Oppenheimer
Lev Leviev is ranked at 210 on the Forbes list. He is the Russian born, 51 year old self made billionaire who lives in Israel and owns a few diamond mines and some crazy real estate. He is also the world's largest cutter and polisher of diamonds. His estimated net worth is $4.1 billion.
Lev Leviev
Chairman of the Steinmetz Group, 50 year old Israeli, Benny Steinmetz, ranks 583 on the list with an estimated worth of 1.7 billion. He is reportedly De Beers largest customer.
Sorry, I couldn't find a picture...;-)
