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Another discount retailer riding out the storm was Japan's Tadashi Yanai. His firm Fast Retailing <9983.T>, known for its Uniqlo stores, helped push him from 296th last year to 76th and raised his net wealth to $6 billion from $3.6 billion.

Others who managed to get richer were investors George Soros and Ronald Perelman, as well as short-seller John Paulson, who has profited from the fall in financial stocks, and entertainer Oprah Winfrey who jumped to 234 from 462.

Among those conspicuous by their absence from the list was Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, one of last year's stars when he became the youngest self-made billionaire to make the list.

Also dropping out were big name casualties of the financial crisis on Wall Street -- former American International Group Inc chief executive Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and former Citigroup Inc chief executive Sanford Weill.

Allen Stanford, the Texan accused of an $8 billion fraud by U.S. regulators, was also booted off the list.

Crime, however, did not disqualify one notable new entry to the list -- Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, who is among the world's most wanted men and now worth $1 billion.

"He is not available for interviews," Kroll said. "But his financial situation is doing quite well." (For more Reuters coverage of the Forbes billionaires list please see : MEXICO-DRUGS/FORBES [id:N11254679]. Please see also FORBES-BILLIONAIRES/LOSERS by Jon Stempel [id:N11312038] ) (For further details on the Forbes billionaires list see www.forbes.com/billionaires)

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