Denise Coates & Ruth Parasol In Rich List Top 10
Denise Coates richest gambling focused women in UK
The Sunday Times released their latest Rich List that shows two women from the gambling industry within the top ten, founder of Bet365 Denise Coates wealth is estimated to be £8.4 billion and sits in second place on the wealthiest women in the UK.
At number nine is Ruth Parasol who has been out of the gambling industry since selling her shares in PartyGaming in which she founded with her partner at the time Russ Deleon.
Although Parasol sold the remaining shares in the once the biggest online gambling company in the World back in 2013, the amazing success of PartyGaming in the outset of online gambling still keeps her in the top ten of wealthiest women in the UK.
However the woman with ever growing success is certainly Denise Coates, along with her family the total wealth of the family and their Bet365 has jumped up by £1.3 billion in the last year to sit now seventeenth overall of richest families in the UK.
In the gambling world overall however coming in 27th in the rich list are Ian & Richard Livingstone and gambling firm Evolution Gaming with £6.1 billion, up an amazing £2.2 billion from last year.
Then comes Mark Scheinberg, co-founder of PokerStars with £3.52 billion in 49th place and in 208th Ruth Parasol and family with £780 million.
Below is the 10 richest women in the UK.
1 Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken £12.013bn
2 Denise Coates £8.448bn
3 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw £2.942bn
4 Varsha Engineer £1.7bn
5= Elisabeth Murdoch £1.2bn
5= Dame Mary Perkins £1.2bn
7 Christina Ong £1bn
8 Joanne Rowling £820m
9 Ruth Parasol £780m
10 Dame Ann Gloag £650m
Courtesy and information from the Times Rich List
