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Wales Online
16-05-2025
- Business
- Wales Online
The UK's top 100 richest people in 2025
The UK's top 100 richest people in 2025 The Sunday Times Rich List has been released today and for once, the rich are getting poorer Ed Sheeran is one of the richest young people aged under 40 in the UK (Image: PA ) The Sunday Times Rich List for 2025 has been unveiled today on May 16 unveiling the fortunes of the nation's wealthiest people. This year's list has seen the most significant drop in billionaire numbers in its 37-year history. The list comprises 350 individuals, with the entry threshold stagnating at £350m, indicating a decline in billionaires for the third consecutive year. The UK's 350 richest people, as per the list, have an astonishing combined wealth of £7772.8bn. Among the 350 are notable figures such as Sir Christopher Nolan, Sir Mick Jagger and Sir Elton John, to name but a few. Despite a dip in their wealth, the Hinduja family, behind the Indian conglomerate Hinduja Group, have topped the Sunday Times Rich List for the fourth year running. Gopi Hinduja and his family have amassed a fortune of £35.3bn. According to the latest Sunday Times rich list, in Wales, the richest person is a venture capitalist worth £4.4bn. To make the top five, you would need a fortune of more than £20bn. The wealthiest is Indian-British industrialist Gopi Hinduja, whose family empire grew from his father's textile and trading business and is now valued at £35.3bn. He's followed by the property, private equity and venture capital billionaires Simon and David Reuben, brothers valued at a combined £26.78bn. Also in the top five is Sir Leonard Blavatnik, a Ukraine-born oligarch who made his fortune in the privatisation of aluminium and oil assets after the collapse of the Soviet Union. His wealth is estimated at £25.73bn. Sir James Dyson, the inventor and designer whose bagless vacuum cleaner transformed the household cleaning industry, is in fourth with a £20.8bn fortune. And Israeli-born Idan Ofer rounds out the top five thanks to his investments in car manufacturing and energy giving him a fortune of £20.12bn. Gareth Bale has dropped out of the under 40 Rich List. Only one Welsh person made the youth list, the internet retail sports entrepreneur Alex Loven. Others who did make it include singer Dua Lipa with an estimated wealth of £115m, Harry Styles, worth £225m, and Ed Sheeran with £370m. Article continues below (Image: Variety via Getty Images ) Overall, the UK's billionaire population has decreased from 165 to 156 this year. Robert Watts, who orchestrates the Sunday Times Rich List, said: "The Sunday Times Rich List is changing. Our billionaire count is down and the combined wealth of those who feature in our research is falling. "We are also finding fewer of the world's super rich are coming to live in the UK." Watts also observed a significant backlash against Rachel Reeves' Treasury department. "This year we were also struck by the strength of criticism for Rachel Reeves's Treasury. We expected the abolition of non-dom status would anger affluent people from overseas. "But homegrown young tech entrepreneurs and those running centuries-old family firms are also warning of serious consequences to a range of tax changes unveiled in last October's budget. King Charles has seen a rise in his own wealth to make him wealthier than his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The late Queen was said to be worth £370m in 2022 compared to Charles' current fortune of £640m. King Charles III and Queen Camilla laugh during a reception to mark the launch of the Queen's reading room medal at Clarence House (Image: Getty Images ) Home Bargains billionaire Tom Morris remains the wealthiest Liverpudlian ever, according to the the Liverpool Echo, with a wealth of £6.99bn, placing him 26th in the UK. The discount chain Home Bargains, which has brought the Morris family their fortune, started with a single store - originally named Home and Bargain - which opened in Old Swan in 1976. It was founded by then-21 year old Tom, the son of a Scotland Road shopkeeper. Here's an excerpt from the illustrious top 100 wealthiest individuals in the UK:. The top 100 richest people in the UK and their net worth:. 1. Gopi Hinduja and family - £35.3 billion. 2. David and Simon Reuben and family - £26.87 billion. 3. Sir Leonard Blavatnik - £25.73 billion. 4. Sir James Dyson and family - £20.8 billion. 5. Idan Ofer - £20.12 billion. 6. Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston and family - £17.75 billion. 7. Sir Jim Ratcliffe - £17.05 billion. 8. Lakshmi Mittal and family - £15.44 billion. 9. John Fredriksen and family - £13.68 billion. 10. Igor and Dmitry Bukhman - £12.54 billion. 11. Kirsten and Jorn Rausing - £12.51 billion. 12. Michael Platt - £12.5 billion. 13. Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho - £10.09 billion. 14. Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family - £9.88 billion. 15. Lord Bamford and family - £9.45 billion. 16. Denise, John and Peter Coates - £9.44 billion. 17. Carrie and Francois Perrodo and family - £9.3 billion. 18. Barnaby and Merlin Swire and family - £9.25 billion. 19. Marit, Lisbet, Sigrid and Hans Rausing - £9.09 billion. 20. Alex Gerko - £8.75 billion. 21. Sir Chris Hohn - £8.145bn. 22. Daniel Kretinsky - £7.79bn. 23. Anders Holch Povlsen - £7.704bn. 24. Moshe Kantor - £7.661bn. 25. Anil Agarwal - £7.5bn. 26. Tom Morris and family - £6.989bn. 27. Nik Storonsky - £6.978bn. 28. Stephen Rubin and family - 6.661bn. 29. Glenn Gordon and family - £6.398bn. 30. Earl Cadogan and family - £6.139bn. 31. Sri Prakash Lohia - £6.028bn. 32. Zuber and Mohsin Issa - £6bn. 33. Joe Lewis - £5.774bn. 34. Ian and Richard Livingstone - £5.732bn. 35. Hilton Schlosberg - £5.457bn. 36. Andy Currie - £5.338bn. 37. John Reece - £5.316bn. 38. Mark Scheinberg - £5.081bn. 39. Teddy Sagi - £5bn. 40. Sir Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman - £4.435bn. 41. Guillaume Pousaz - £4.429bn. 42. Johan Eliasch - £4bn. 43. Leonie Schroder and family - £3.933bn. 44. Laurence and Francois Graff - £3.65bn. 45. Eddie and Sol Zakay - £3.6bn. 46. Ben and Adam Keswick and family - £3.466bn. 47. Mark Pears and family - £3.451bn. 48. Navin and Varsha Engineer - £3.45bn. 49. Baron Howard de Walden and family - £3.244bn. 50. Alan Parker and family - £3.24bn. 51. Yakir Gabay - £3.226bn. 52. Mike Ashley - £3.12bn. 53. John Bloor - £3.101bn. 54. Stephen Fitzpatrick - £3.073bn. 55. Sammy Tak Lee and family - £3.065bn. 56. Clive Calder - £3bn. 57. Fred and Peter Done - £2.915bn. 58. Alki David and the Leventis family - £2.898bn. 59. Bernard Lewis and family - £2.724bn. 60. Sir Anwar Pervez and family - £2.715bn. 61. Alejandro Santo Domingo and Lady Charlotte Wellesley - £2.661bn. 62. Inna Gudavadze - £2.65bn. 62. The Lazari family - £2.65bn. 64. John Christodoulou - £2.6bn. 64. Chris and Sarah Dawson - £2.6bn. 64. Benzion Freshwater and family - £2.6bn. 64. Sir Dennis and Lady Gillings - £2.6bn. 64. Chris Rokos - £2.6bn. 69. Simon, Bobby and Robin Arora - £2.578bn. 70. Geoffrey Warren - £2.552bn. 71. Alan Howard - £2.5bn. 72. Sir Richard Branson and family - £2.419bn. 73. Peter Hargreaves - £2.3bn. 74. Farhad Moshiri - £2.258bn. 75. Sunder Genomal and family - £2.25bn. 76. John Gore - £2.181bn. 77. Henry Moser - £2.155bn. 78. Georg and Emily von Opel - £2.083bn. 79. Jim and Sally Thompson - £2.016bn. 80. Lord Hintze - £2.002bn. 81. Bernie Ecclestone and family - £2bn. 81. Lord Paul and family - £2bn. 81. John Whittaker and family - £2bn. 84. Jasminder Singh and family - £1.981bn. 85. Wafic Said - £1.973bn. 86. Simon Nixon - £1.95bn. 87. Jean-François Decaux and family - £1.922bn. 88. Sir Ian Wood and family - £1.914bn. 89. Tony Langley - £1.9bn. 89. Viscount Portman and family - £1.9bn. 91. Henri Beaufour - £1.844bn. 92. Mark and Lindy O'Hare - £1.836bn. 93. Sir Will Adderley and family - £1.805bn. 94. Peter Harris and family - £1.791bn. 95. Jonas and Mathias Kamprad - £1.774bn. 96. Kristo Kaarmann - £1.741bn. 97. Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and family - £1.707bn. Article continues below 98. James and John Martin and family - £1.699bn. 99. Andrey Andreev - £1.694bn. 100. Michael Flacks - £1.681bn.
Yahoo
22-02-2025
- Yahoo
Salman Rushdie Attacker Found Guilty for Brutal 2022 Assault That Left Novelist Blinded
Hadi Matar, the New Jersey man who attacked Salman Rushdie in 2022, seriously wounding him and leaving him blind in one eye, was found guilty on Friday of attempted murder and assault. The eight-day trial was held in Chautauqua County Court, where the jury deliberated for two hours before rendering their verdict. Matar is facing up to 30 years in prison, according to NBC News. The attack occurred on Aug. 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in the western New York town of Chautauqua, where Rushdie was slated to speak at a literary festival. Rushdie testified on Feb. 11 that he noticed Matar before he rushed onstage with a knife. 'I was aware of this person rushing at me from my right hand side,' he said. 'I was struck by his eyes which seemed dark and ferocious to me.' The novelist recalled lying in 'a lake of blood' and holding up his hand in self-defense, which was also stabbed. 'It occurred to me that I was dying,' Rushdie said, according to the Associated Press. 'That was my predominant thought.' Rushdie was hospitalized for 17 days after the attack and still does not have the use of his right hand. The author had been receiving death threats since the 1989 publication of his novel 'The Satanic Verses,' which led Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a call for Muslims around the world to kill him. The Booker Prize winner went into hiding until 1998, when the Iranian government called off the fatwa. He has lived in New York City since 2000. The Indian-British writer was knighted in 2007 by Queen Elizabeth II. Last year, Rushdie published a memoir of the near-fatal assault in a book titled 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.' The post Salman Rushdie Attacker Found Guilty for Brutal 2022 Assault That Left Novelist Blinded appeared first on TheWrap.
Yahoo
04-02-2025
- Yahoo
Jury selection begins in trial for Bergen County man accused of attacking Salman Rushdie
The trial of a Bergen County man accused of attacking author Salman Rushdie during a lecture in Chautauqua, New York in 2022 began Tuesday with jury selection. Jury selection started in the trial of Hadi Matar, 26, of Fairview, according to Madeline Contiguglia, the executive assistant to District Attorney Jason Schmidt. Chautauqua County Judge David W. Foley is presiding over the case. Contiguglia said she expects jury selection to last between a week to two weeks and the trial will start the next business day barring an unforeseen delay. Authorities said Matar rushed on stage on Aug. 12, 2022, where he stabbed Rushdie repeatedly in the neck, stomach and right eye. Henry Reese, the moderator for the lecture, was also injured. Matar rejected a plea deal in July that covered his federal and state charges and would have included pleading guilty to charges of attempted murder. He would have received 20 years in the New York case and another 10-20 years in the federal case. Prosecutors believe the attack on Rushdie was because of the fatwa or death threat issued by Iran's leadership after Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses," published in 1988. Rushdie is an Indian-British author who has published a variety of award-winning novels during his career. At the time of his arrest, Matar was living on Morningside Street in Fairview with his mother, Silvana Fardos. He grew up in California and his parents divorced in 2004, his father moving back to Lebanon. This article originally appeared on Salman Rushdie stabbing trial begins with jury selection
Shafaq News
04-02-2025
- Shafaq News
Rushdie stabbing trial opens in New York
Shafaq News/ Two years after attempting to murder author Salman Rushdie, the trial of defendant Hadi Matar will begin on Tuesday in New York. Jury selection will take place at Chautauqua County Court, where Matar, who has been in custody for nearly two years, faces three charges, including "foreign support," referring to the Lebanese group Hezbollah. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of "attempted murder" and "assault." If convicted, Matar could face up to 25 years in prison. Chautauqua County District Attorney Jason Schmidt said after a pre-trial hearing, "What happened was recorded and witnessed by thousands of people live." About 15 witnesses, including Rushdie himself, are expected to testify during the trial, which could last several weeks. The Rushdie Attack On August 12, 2022, Matar, 27, a New Jersey resident of Lebanese descent, stormed the stage during a literary event in Chautauqua, upstate New York, where Rushdie was speaking. He lunged at Rushdie and stabbed him approximately 10 times in the neck, face, and abdomen before being subdued. The attack left the Indian-British novelist blind in one eye and unable to use one of his hands. Since 1989, Rushdie has lived under the threat of a fatwa calling for his death, issued by Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, which is considered deeply offensive by many Muslims. The book presents a fictionalized version of the life of the Prophet Muhammad. One section of the novel refers to "The Satanic Verses," offering an alternative narrative about how certain verses in the Quran were revealed, suggesting they may have been influenced by Satan.
