DENISE YORK & FAMILY
$3.2
BILLION SELF-MADE SCORE: # SOURCE: SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS AGE: 69 RESIDENCE: YOUNGSTOWN, OH PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
The San Francisco 49ers owner previously served as president of her family’s Pittsburgh Penguins and in 1991 became the third woman to have her name engraved on the Stanley Cup. (Above, she poses next to the trophy with father Edward John DeBartolo Sr. and husband John York.) York worked for years in her family’s real estate and sports enterprises and became the controlling owner of the 49ers in 2001. In high school, she worked at the customer information desk at a Ohio mall.