Rinehart, 57, head of Perth-based Hancock Prospecting is on course to overtake Carlos Slim, the Mexican magnate worth 46 billion pounds ($73.44 billion), and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who is worth 35 billion pounds ($55.80 billion), Citigroup has estimated.She is currently the richest person in Australia and predicted to become the wealthiest in the world.
Georgina "Gina" Hope Rinehart
(born 9 February 1954 at St John's, Perth, Western Australia) is the Heiress of Hancock Prospecting, and the daughter of mining magnate Lang Hancock.
Born-9 February 1954 (age 57)
Nationality-Australian
Occupation-Mining inheritant
Known for-Richest person in Australia (2011)
Children-4
Parents-Lang Hancock
Rinehart lived with her parents at Nunyerry, 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Wittenoom until she was four. She later boarded at St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls in Perth and afterwards studied economics for one year at Sydney University.As a teenager Gina met Greg Milton, an Englishman, while both were working in Wittenoom. At age 19 she and Greg married, after he had changed his surname to Hayward. The Haywards had two children, John Langley (born 2 January 1976)[4] and Bianca Hope .They divorced in 1981.
When she was 29 she married Frank Rinehart, a 57 year old American corporate lawyer. He died in about 1990. Rinehart has four children: John and Bianca; and twins Hope and Gina from her marriage to Frank Rinehart.