Sporty, arty and business savvy. A ranking of the world’s top 20 most intriguing billionaire heiresses by Web site Forbes.com shows daughters of the rich aren’t all just socialites and can be hard workers. While hotel heiress Paris Hilton hit the headlines for spending time in jail and making a sex video with a boyfriend, Forbes.com said the women on its list were “proving themselves every bit as tenacious and ambitious as their namesakes”.In top spot on the list is Vanisha Mittal Bhatia of India, who has a masters degree in South Asian studies and sits on the board of Mittal Steel, owned by her father Lakshmi Mittal, estimated by Forbes to be worth $51 billion. “She’s perhaps best known — dare we say infamous — for the $60 million wedding her father threw her and 1,000 of their closest friends in 2005.A performance by pop star Kylie Minogue capped the week-long Parisian affair,” said the Web site. The women on the list are all under 40.Coming in at No 2 is Delphine Arnault Gancia of France, daughter of Bernard Arnault who runs the Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) luxury goods empire. Gancia is a former McKinsey consultant and the first woman to be named a director on the LVMH board. Third is Marta Ortega Perez, youngest child of Spain’s richest resident Amancio Ortega, worth $24 billion and chairman of Inditex, owner of the Zara clothing chain.
