Gina Rinehart Bio | Wiki
Gina Rinehart is an Australian mining magnate and heiress. She is the Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately-owned mineral exploration and extraction company founded by her father, Lang Hancock.
Gina was Lang Hancock’s only child, and when he died in 1992, leaving a bankrupt estate, she succeeded him as executive chairman. Gina turned a company with severe financial difficulties into the largest private company in Australia and one of the largest mining houses in the world.
She is Australia’s richest person. Her wealth reached around A$29 billion in 2012, at which point she overtook Christy Walton as the world’s richest woman and was included on the Forbes list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
Gina Rinehart Age
Gina was born on February 9, 1954, in Perth, Australia. She is 68 years old.
Gina Rinehart Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx. 1.65 m).
Gina Rinehart Family
She was born at St John of God Subiaco Hospital in Perth, Western Australia to her parents Hope Margaret Nicholas and Lang Hancock. Gina grew up in Mulga Downs station in the Pilbara as an only child. She dropped out of the University to work for her father, gaining extensive knowledge of the Pilbara iron-ore industry.
Gina Rinehart Husband
Gina married Englishman Greg Milton in 1973 who she met while both were working in Wittenoom. Their children John Langley and Bianca Hope were born in 1976 and 1977 respectively. The couple separated in 1979 and divorced in 1981.
Later, in 1983, Gina married corporate lawyer and Arco executive, Frank Rinehart, in Las Vegas. They had two children, Hope and Ginia, born in 1986 and 1987 respectively. Frank received a scholarship to Harvard for his services in the then US Army Air Corp. He was top of Harvard College, and then the top of Harvard Law School, while also studying engineering, and holding full-time and two part-time jobs. Sadly, he died in 1990.
Gina Rinehart Children
In 2003, at age 27, Gina’s son John changed his surname by deed poll from his birth name Hayward to Hancock, his maternal grandfather’s name. Since 2014, Gina has had a difficult relationship with her son, John; and was not present at his wedding to Gemma Ludgate.
John’s sister, Bianca Hope, who was once positioned to take over the family business, served as a director of Hancock Prospecting and HMHT Investments until 31 October 2011, when she was replaced by her half-sister, Ginia.
In 2013, Bianca married her partner Sasha Serebryakov, she married in Hawaii and Gina did not attend the wedding. Gina’s other daughter, Hope, married Ryan Welker, and they divorced while living in New York. Gina attended both her younger daughters’ weddings.
Gina Rinehart Education
She boarded at St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls in Perth. Gina briefly studied economics at the University of Sydney. She then dropped out and worked for her father, gaining extensive knowledge of the Pilbara iron-ore industry.
Gina Rinehart Company
Gina serves as the Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately-owned mineral exploration and extraction company founded by her father, Lang Hancock. When she took over Hancock Prospecting, its total wealth was estimated at A$75 million, which did not account for group liabilities and contingent liabilities.
Gina oversaw an expansion of the company over the following decade, and due to the iron ore boom of the early 2000s became a nominal billionaire in 2006. In the 2010s, Gina began to expand her holdings into areas outside the mining industry.
She made sizeable investments in Ten Network Holdings and Fairfax Media (although she sold her interest in the latter in 2015), and also expanded into agriculture, buying several cattle stations, and divesting them within a decade.
Gina Rinehart Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Gina’s estimated net worth is $28.4 billion.
Who Is Gina Rinehart
Gina is an Australian mining magnate and heiress. She is the Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, a privately-owned mineral exploration and extraction company founded by her father, Lang Hancock.