Heidi Horten
Heidi Horten is an Austrian billionaire, and the widow of businessman Helmut Horten. In November 2015 Forbes estimated her net worth at US $2.6 billion. Horten inherited her wealth upon the death of her husband, the founder of the German department store business Horten AG.
- Heidi Horten inherited a fortune from her husband, Helmut Horten, who founded the German department store Horten AG in 1936.
- She met the much older Horten in a bar in Austria in 1959, when she was 19.
- When he died in 1987, he left Horten a $1 billion fortune that has since grown.
- She sits on the board of Helmut Horten Stiftung, a charitable foundation supporting medical research and health care institutions.
- She also owns the 320-foot superyacht Carinthia VII.
