US tops list for wealthiest couples

bill and melinda gates

Talk about power couples. Bill and Hillary may be hitting the headlines lately, but the political duo has nowhere near the net worth of these couples. Another Bill, along with his wife Melinda, tops the list as the world’s wealthiest couple, according to Wealth-X. They’re followed at a not-so-close second by Spanish retail couple Amancio Ortega Gaona and Flora Perez. The youngest couple, ranked at number nine, is Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. The Harvard educated couple, ages 31 and 30 respectively, were married in 2012.

Here are the 10 wealthiest couples:

  1. Bill and Melinda Gates- $85.7 billion
  2. Amancio Ortega Gaona and Flora Perez- $70.7 billion
  3. Warren Buffet and Astrid Menks- $65 billion
  4. David and Julia Koch- $47.5 billion
  5. Charles and Elizabeth Koch- $47.4 billion
  6. Wang Jianlin and Lin Ning- $40.7 billion
  7. Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos- $39.8 billion
  8. Bernard Arnault and Helene Mercier- $38.7 billion
  9. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan- $38.5 billion
  10. James and Lynne Walton- $36.2 billion
Photo: Steve Jurvetson