In the announcement Guinness it is stated that “the exact amount of the loss Ilona Maska almost impossible to determine" because some media estimate that in 2022 he lost more than 200 billion dollars, but it is undeniable that he broke the previous record held by the Japanese investor Masayoshi Son with a loss of 58,6 billion dollars in 2000.
Musk's decline in wealth is largely the result of a steep decline in the value of Tesla shares, which have lost about 65 percent of their value during the worst year in the company's history.
Musk isn't the only billionaire whose fortunes have declined in 2022 – American billionaires have lost $660 billion in total. In second place on the list of last year's losers is the owner Amazona Jeff Bezos, who was left without 80 billion dollars, and the previous record was broken by the owner of the company Meta Mark Zuckenberg which lost 78 billion dollars last year.
Despite the record loss, Musk is still the second richest man in the world. Forbes estimated his wealth at 2021 billion dollars in 320, so now he has "only" 138 billion left.
According to the data Forbes, the richest man in the world is currently the Frenchman Bernard Arnault with assets worth 190 billion dollars.
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