Rosalia Mera
Age: 68
Country: Spain
Worth: $4.5
Background: At the age of 11, Mera quit school to work as a seamstress. This move led her to start her own fashion company, Inditex, with her husband. Though now divorced, Mera still holds a 7% stake in the company, which includes the Zara clothing stores.
Mera devotes much of her fortune to charity, and is the President of the Paideia Foundation, which provides services for the physically and mentally disabled. The cause hits particularly close to home for Mera, whose son, Marco, is disabled.
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