Portrait of Hope Welker

Rank #2160

Hope Welker

Net worth $1.9B

Mining · Australia

Born
Aug 13, 1985
Age
40
Source
Mining
Residence
New York, New York
Citizenship
Australia
Marital status
Divorced
Children
2
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Hope Welker is the third child of Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart.
  • Together with her three siblings, she is the beneficiary of a trust that owns a large stake in mining giant Hancock Prospecting.
  • She joined, then withdrew, from a court battle waged by her siblings to remove their mother as trustee.
  • Hancock disclosed that as of September 2023 it had provided A$5.44 billion for dividends that will be paid after the dispute between Bianca and her brother John against their mother is resolved.
  • In 2011, she told her mother she was down to her last $60,000.
  • She went to boarding school at Switzerland's famous Insitut Le Rosey.