Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Billionaire Jeff Bezos will be blasted into space today, July 20, in the first flight of his rocket ship New Shephard.New Shephard is built by the Amazon founder's company Blue Origin, which was built with the vision of sending tourists to space.Bezos stepped down as Amazon's CEO earlier in the month, ending a 27-year run, which saw the company became one of the most valuable public companies in the world.Bezos first appeared in The Forbes 400 list list of richest Americans in 1998, with a net worth of $1.6 billion.Now he is the richest person on Earth.
Here we take a closer look at his current net worth.Jeff Bezos is worth an estimated $203billion (£176.2billion) as of July 20,.
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