7. GAIL MILLER

$4 billion

SOURCE: Car dealerships

AGE: 78 • RESIDENCE: Salt Lake City

SELF-MADE SCORE: 7

Starting with one Toyota dealership in 1979, Miller and her husband, Larry

(d. 2009), built the Larry H. Miller Group into five dozen car dealerships in the western U.S. In late 2021 she sold the dealerships to Georgia-based Asbury Automotive Group for nearly $3.5 billion. This followed the group’s almost $1.7 bil

lion sale of the NBA’s Utah Jazz to Utah billionaire Ryan Smith in 2020.