Meet The World's 10 Most Powerful Female Entrepreneurs of 2014
#6.Sofia Vergara
Net Worth: $37 Million
Sofia Vergara is a Colombian actress, comedian, television hostess, and model. Vergara was widely known for co-hosting two television shows for Spanish-language television network, Univision, in the late 1990s. In 2013, she signed endorsement contracts with Diet Pepsi, Rooms To Go, and medicine Synthroid. She also launched a social networking site, NuevoWorld, to help Latino celebrities better connect with their fans.
#7.Arianna Huffington
Net Worth: $50 Million
Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. She is best-known for her news website, The Huffington Post. Earlier, a liberal Democrat, she later became a popular conservative commentator, in the mid-1990s, after which she re-adopted liberal political beliefs, in the late 1990s. She is the former spouse of the former Republican congressman, Michael Huffington. She sold Huffington Post to AOL three years ago for more than $315million, after originally launching in 2005.
#8.Shakira Mebarak
Net Worth: $220 Million
Shakira is a singer, songwriter, producer, belly dancer, and philanthropist who sold more than 125 million albums, worldwide to date. Shakira has won dozens of international awards for her work including two mainstream Grammys, eight Latin Grammys, four American Music Awards, six mainstream Billboard Awards, and 23 Billboard Latin awards.
In 2011, she was appointed by President Obama to the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Shakira is also the founder of the Pies Descalzos Foundation, which raises money for poor children in Colombia, and also a UNICEF ambassador and founder of the Barefoot Foundation which she established when she was 18 to provide early education systems around the world. The nonprofit opened its eighth school this year.
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