At least 67 billionaires have strong residential ties to Palm Beach, according to a Palm Beach Daily News analysis of the 2025 Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people.
- Examining the latest Forbes data, the Palm Beach Daily News has identified at least 67 billionaires with residential ties to the town of Palm Beach.
- The majority of Palm Beach’s billionaires saw their fortunes soar over the last year, including President Donald Trump.
- Billionaires are on the Palm Beach Daily News list if they own real estate in town, whether it’s a primary home, a vacation house, land or an investment property.
At least 67 billionaires now have strong residential ties to Palm Beach — and their combined wealth tops $615 billion, according to an exclusive Palm Beach Daily News analysis of the latest list of the world’s richest people from Forbes.com.
The majority of the town’s billionaires — 37 — saw their fortunes soar over the last year, including Palm Beach’s most famous resident. President Donald Trump’s estimated net worth climbed from $2.3 billion on March 8, 2024, to $5.1 billion on March 7 of this year, the annual Forbes list showed.
A dozen of the Palm Beach billionaires watched their wealth drop, while 17 saw their fortunes unchanged from last year’s single-day snapshot. Financial data from 2024 was not available for the lone Palm Beach billionaire who made his debut on the global Forbes list — Australia-born financier Michael Dorrell, whose estimated net worth clocked in at $8.5 billion. (See the complete list of Palm Beach billionaires below.)…