Even if there are a few twenty-something supermodels in the world, many of these ladies have been in long-term relationships with their millionaire spouses before they became wealthy. The list includes well-known public figures such as journalists and politicians and business leaders, and philanthropists who have made significant contributions to society and the world's history.
Consider these billion-dollar beauties and their million-dollar romances.
Miranda Kerr and Snapchat's Evan Spiegel
Founder of Kora Organics beauty care and the first Australian Victoria's Secret model tied the knot with Snapchat's co-founder in 2017.
One of the world's youngest billionaires, Evan Spiegel, was introduced to Kerr at a Louis Vuitton event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York when he was 25 years old. Her favorite tune was Arvo Pärt's "Spiegel am Spiegel," the Estonian composer's most famous work.
Kerr was previously married to Orlando Bloom, with whom she has a child. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel gave Miranda Kerr a gingerbread house with her, and her son's names were etched into the frosting on their first date.
According to Forbes, Spiegel is now worth $9.2 billion. Two children have been born to the couple.
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg
On the way to Mark Zuckerberg's farewell party in 2003, Priscilla Chan bumped into the dorky sophomore. To get kicked out of Harvard, the student had developed a fake website.
After a rocky start, the two eventually began dating. Zuckerberg was not expelled, but he did leave Harvard to work full-time for Facebook because he could not continue. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a net worth of $123.1 billion as of this writing.
After graduating from medical school, Chan married Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a secret wedding. Co-founding the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) in 2015, the pair pledged 99 percent of their Facebook stock wealth to a better future through education, justice, and health care. In 2016, Chan and her husband founded CZ Biohub, a non-profit disease research facility.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative finally led Chan to leave her position as a pediatrician. In addition, the couple has two children.
Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault
Compared to her husband, this Frida star and film producer is exceedingly well-off. According to Forbes, the Pinault family, which includes François-Henri Pinault, is worth an estimated $51.6 billion.
In 2006, Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault met during a banquet at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, where the actress was a guest. After tying the knot in a private Paris city hall ceremony on Valentine's Day in 2009, the couple wed again in Venice's opera theatre with a masked ball at Punta Della Dogana, a renowned art museum.
Kering was created in 1963 by his father, François-Henri, who serves as Pinault's mentor and chief executive officer. Gucci and Balenciaga are among the brands owned by the conglomerate. On the other hand, Hayek opted for a gorgeous ivory gown for her dream Venice nuptials.
Elon Musk and Grimes
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Canadian musician Claire Boucher met on Twitter, bonding over a joke about an AI-powered dystopia and French 18th-century art style. Musk is the world's richest man. Inevitably,
There are so many different genres represented in Grimes' sound that the Wall Street Journal once described it as "the kind of music that you'd imagine being played by the cheerleading squad of vampires."
A newborn boy named X A-12 was born in 2020 to the couple, who have been known to go back and forth on social media by unfollowing each other and then following each other again.
Kevin Systrom Nicole Systrom
Billionaire Kevin Systrom wed Sutro co-founder Nicole Schuetz at an Insta-worthy jazz-age Halloween masquerade in Napa, California.
Founder Kevin has a fortune of $2.3 billion. Both graduated from Stanford, where the couple met and fell in love. They were engaged in 2014, the same year Schuetz opened her firm.
Vogue claims that Dolly, the couple's Instagram-famous golden retriever, played a role in the proposal. Using a ruse to fool her into thinking that Dolly had fled, Kevin walked her to the perfect spot in front of the sunset.
An MBA/MS in Environmental Resources, Nicole founded her business to assist fund climate and clean energy initiatives.
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Nikita Kahn with Larry Ellison
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been dating this businesswoman and animal rights activist for over a decade.
Ellison, one of the richest men on the planet, with a net worth of $120.8 billion, owns almost all of the Hawaiian island Lanai and is on the board of Tesla.
To celebrate his girlfriend's birthday in 2013, he established the Mediterranean/Italian restaurant Nikita in Malibu, which serves dishes such as Kobe beef sliders and lobster salad. It's called "Gazillionaire Grub" by the Hollywood Reporter.
Kahn is the owner of a real estate firm and has previously worked for the California Wildlife Center in the state. As a result of a $1.16 million donation to the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Rhino Rescue Center and the rhino that bears her name, she and her boyfriend made news in 2016.
Larry Page and Lucinda Southworth
When Google co-founder Larry Page married Lucinda Southworth in 2007, he reserved an entire private island for the ceremony, which fellow billionaire Sir Richard Branson attended.
Research scientist and philanthropist Southworth possesses a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University and degrees from the Universities of Pennsylvania and Oxford. The couple established Carl Victor Page Memorial Foundation in 2004 by the couple, which gave $15 million to the fight against Ebola in West Africa in 2018.
In 2019, Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, although he remains a board member and controlling shareholder, and he has a net worth of $124.5 billion.
Penny Knight and Phil Knight
While teaching accounting 101 at Portland State University in 1968, Phil Knight ran a small side business. Penelope Parks, a standout student at Blue Ribbon Sports, was introduced to him there, and he urged her to join the company.
Parks, a bookkeeper and typist started dating Knight, and the two married the following year.
Blue Ribbon Sports was renamed Nike three years later, and the company has since become a household name. According to Forbes, the Knights are worth about $61 billion as a family.
Phil and Penny's donations to the Knight Foundation ($900 million) and the University of Oregon ($300 million) were the second and third highest in the United States in 2020, respectively. The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact is expected to receive a portion of the money.
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez
Once the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos has been spotted with TV anchor and host Lauren Sanchez since his $38 billion divorces from longtime wife Mackenzie Scott in 2019.
It's been alleged that Sanchez and the $194 billion-plus Amazon CEO, who retired in 2018, began dating while they were split from their prior spouses.
Aerial video and production firm Black Ops Aviation was founded by a licensed helicopter pilot and Black Ops Aviation founder Sanchez.
Ralph Lauren and Ricky Lauren
Ricky Lauren, author and artist has been married to Ralph Lauren for more than 50 years.
According to Port magazine, when Ralph showed up for an appointment in 1946, Ricky was working as the front desk receptionist at a doctor's office, which also claims that Ralph proposed to Ricky on their very first date.
Even though they wed in 1964, it would still be a while before he began his clothing line.
Richard and his wife Ricky own a gorgeous stone manor in Bedford, New York, and three beachfront residences in the Hamptons. They are the authors and illustrators of five books that feature their photographs and watercolor illustrations.
Despite stepping down as CEO of Ralph Lauren in 2015, he is still the company's executive chairman and chief creative officer.
Richard Branson and Joan Templeman
There has been little written about "Lady Branson," Sir Richard Branson's longtime wife. Although Templeman was reared in Glasgow by a wealthy ship carpenter, Market Realist reports she had to work many jobs to make ends meet before meeting Branson.
Branson wasn't discouraged, even though she was still married to Ronnie Leahy, a Scottish keyboard player.
It is said that he wooed Templeman with a romantic flight over Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, according to the Founder of the Virgin Group. His interest in purchasing the property was made clear so that she could join him on a helicopter ride. He paid $180,000 for the island, and he and his wife still reside there today. In 1989, they tied the knot and welcomed their first kid into the world.
Sergey Brin and Nicole Shanahan
Although she is a well-known attorney and entrepreneur, she prefers to keep her identity a secret. According to media sources, she married Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, in 2018 and kept the news quiet until the following year.
Stanford Center for Legal Informatics researcher and founder of patent startup ClearAccessIP Shanahan is also a fellow at CodeX, where he works on legal technology. Additionally, she formed the Bia-Echo Foundation to promote social transformation, including criminal justice reform and the extension of female fertility.
Alphabet's former president, Sergey Brin, has a net worth of $120 billion, despite his resignation from his position as a controlling shareholder and board member in 2019. One child was born to the couple as a result of their union.
Susan Dell and Michael Dell
Before Michael being a household celebrity in 1988, the Dells were introduced to one other through mutual friends. Dell Computer Corporation went public the following year, and he married his longtime partner, Patricia, in 1989.
Susan Dell comes from a long line of hard-working, athletic women, and she is no different. Three fashion companies have been launched by her — including luxury brand Phi, which went out of business during the recession of 2009 — and she competed in triathlons ,marathons, , and cycling competitions around the world.
Susan Dell and her husband Michael have four children together as co-founders of the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation. She is also a board member of the scientific research Cooper Institute in Dallas and a lifetime trustee of Dell Children's Medical Center.
Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt
Since her marriage to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in 1980, this former interior designer has become an investor and philanthropist.
The couple has been hard at work establishing non-profits to further their humanitarian objectives. That includes the Schmidt Family Foundation, the Schmidt Ocean Institute, and the Schmidt Futures Initiative, focusing on environmental sustainability (which funds efforts to advance society through tech).
The Schmidt Family Foundation's president, Wendy, is also an accomplished sailor. Her organization, 11th Hour Racing, was created in 2010.
In 2019, Eric resigned from Alphabet's board of directors and stepped down as a technical advisor 2020. A $24.1 billion fortune is still in his hands.
Hélène Mercier and Bernard Arnault
During a dinner party in 1989 that Hélène Mercier first met the French clothing mogul and insisted that she have him play the piano for her on New Year's Eve.
According to Mercier, "his hands were trembling and he was dying with terror, but he was determined to get to the conclusion."
Mercier wore a white Lacroix suit, and her husband wore white jeans and a blue blazer when they wed in a private ceremony in France in 1990. Despite her hectic schedule, which includes 20 concerts a year and two to six hours of rehearsal each day, she frequently joins Arnault at fashion shows.
He is the CEO and chairman of LVMH, a conglomerate including Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs. Arnault, who had overtaken Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world in May 2021, is the chairman and CEO of LVMH. This man and his family are today worth 199.9 billion dollars.
