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The World's Richest People
The Hottest Billionaire Heiresses
Luisa Kroll and Chaniga Vorasarun 07.27.06, 6:00 PM ET

Ivanka Trump

Age 24

The Donald's little girl graduated summa cum laude in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. A one-time model, Ivanka has appeared on Trump's reality show, The Apprentice, and is currently vice president of real estate development at the Trump Organization.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Age 45

The eldest of our favorite heiresses, this daughter of French billionaire Gerard Louis-Dreyfus is best known as the Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning Seinfeld actress who played Elaine. The comedienne is a Saturday Night Live alum and also appeared on the cult TV hit Arrested Development. This summer, she received an Emmy nomination for her latest sitcom, The New Adventures of Old Christine, prompting folks to claim she has finally broken the Seinfeld curse and is on her way to another

Amanda Hearst

Age 22

Great-granddaughter of publishing legend William Randolph Hearst, Amanda is taking over for Paris Hilton as blue-blood society's new "It" girl. The student and model, who is the new face of preppy designer Lilly Pulitzer and a recent Town & Country cover girl, has such a high profile that Hearst Corp.'s own Harper's Bazaar ran a story detailing the socialite's annual maintenance cost: a whopping $136,360. Good thing she's got rich relatives: four uncles made Forbes' annual listing of the 400 richest Americans.

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Dylan Lauren

The daughter of fashion designer Ralph Lauren, this candy girl has created her own buzz by catering to folks' sweet tooth. The confessed candy lover now owns four Dylan's Candy Bar stores in three states, including a 10,000-square-foot New York City location where she not only sells oodles of gummies and lollipops but also throws parties and peddles apparel, plush products and even candy scented perfume. Dylan has been featured on the covers of Town & Country and Hamptons magazine in addition to being profiled in People and The New York Times' Sunday Styles section.

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Age 45

Amanda Hearst

Age 22

Lydia Hearst-Shaw

Age 21

Daughter of famously brainwashed kidnapee Patty Hearst and great-granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst. Like her first cousin, Amanda (their moms are sisters), Lydia keeps the family name alive on the runway--she is a favorite of edgy fashion-design duo Heatherette and has appeared in ads for luxe brands like Louis Vuitton.

Nicky Hilton

Age 22

Paris' younger sister is generating her own buzz. Nicky began designing handbags as a teenager and has her own clothing line, Chick by Nicky Hilton. Earlier this summer, she announced plans to open two Nicky O hotels, one on Ocean Drive in Miami and one in Chicago. But it was her shotgun Las Vegas wedding to Manhattan money manager Todd Meister, and the subsequent annulment, that really got Nicky noticed. Now she's reportedly dating Kevin Connolly, co-star of HBO's buzzy Hollywood parody Entourage.

Dylan Lauren

Fortune has long conferred fame. But recently, our obsession with the fabulously wealthy has spawned a new breed of celebrity: the beautiful and stylish billionaire heiresses. Sometimes called "celebutantes," these much-photographed trendsetters sit front row at fashion shows, take the most spectacular vacations, frequent the hippest nightclubs like Bungalow 8 (where a few rowdy ones have been known to get into cat fights) and regularly land in the tabloids.

The best-known celebutante is Paris Hilton, who ranked number 56 on our annual ranking of the world's 100 most powerful celebrities. Paris is the gold standard, flaunting her Hilton (nyse: HLT - news - people ) dollars with aplomb on her Simple Life reality show. Great-granddaughter of the hotel chain's founder, Conrad Hilton, she has managed to upstage the family's hotels with her regular appearances in the celebrity gossip rags and occasional stints as an actress and singer.

Other heiresses are creating their own stirs, including Paris' younger sister Nicky, who recently announced plans to open up her own Nicky O hotels and is, with a whiff of life-imitates-art irony, reportedly dating Kevin Connolly of Entourage fame.

See our list of the ten hottest heiresses.

Paris' old pal Casey Johnson, daughter of Jets owner Woody Johnson and a Johnson & Johnson (nyse: JNJ - news - people ) heiress, made news when she was named as a defendant in a $1 million defamation suit filed by former Playboy bunny Nicole Lenz in 2004. The lawsuit was filed not long after Johnson kicked out her one-time houseguest, supposedly accusing Lenz of borrowing and misusing her clothes, among other misdeeds. Johnson hired OJ Simpson's former lawyer Robert Shapiro; the case was knocked down to limited jurisdiction, meaning that the maximum amount Lenz could seek was $25,000, and eventually settled.

So who are the hottest heiresses these days? We picked a relatively diverse group of ten of our favorites rich girls including several models and business executives, a TV star and an award-winning equestrian.

All of them have ties to New York City. Many of the young women grew up in the Big Apple, several attended one of New York's private all-girls schools like Spence or Chapin. Paris and Nicole Hilton once lived in the Waldorf-Astoria. Others have moved to Manhattan more recently. All hail from billionaire families, which have a combined net worth of $31 billion.

Some may eventually inherit much bigger fortunes than others, but none seems to be hurting financially. Twenty-two year-old Amanda Hearst's reported yearly maintenance cost, which includes spending on clothes, makeup and vacations, is $136,360, matching the annual salaries of many top executives.

In 2004, Anna Anisimova, the 21-year-old daughter of a Russian metals billionaire, paid a then-record $550,000 to rent the Hampton's home of singer/songwriter Denise Rich, whose ex-husband is billionaire financier Marc Rich. She spent about $400,000 to rent a Hampton's house last summer and another $600,000 this summer, though she is reportedly spending some of the summer in St. Tropez. When she returns to Manhattan this fall to resume classes at New York University, she'll move into a new $15 million pad at the Time Warner Center.

This is not to say that some of these heiresses don't earn their keep. If the Russian heiress represents one end of the spectrum, Aerin Lauder, the granddaughter of Est??e Lauder, exemplifies the other. The stylish young mother of two has worked for Est??e Lauder (nyse: EL - news - people ) for 14 years. Now senior vice president, global creative directions for Est??e Lauder, she sits on the board of the $6.3 billion (2005 sales) cosmetic company. More recently, she helped orchestrate a big partnership with former Gucci designer Tom Ford and helped snag fellow Manhattanite Gwyneth Paltrow for an ad campaign.

Also in the working-heiresses camp are Ralph Lauren's daughter Dylan, who co-founded and runs a chain of four high-end candy stores, and Ivanka Trump, Donald's daughter, who is vice president of real estate development at the Trump Organization.

Venturing outside the family fold can also be extremely lucrative. The fact that Julia Louis-Dreyfus' father is a billionaire is more of a marginal curio to the fame and fortune she herself garnered during her stint starring as Elaine Benes on Seinfeld. Paris earned $7 million last year, mostly through licensing deals attaching her famous name to a perfume, watches, nightclubs and a videogame. The Hearst cousins, whose four uncles are all billionaires, make some pocket change modeling. And Mayor Michael Bloomberg's younger daughter Georgina, a 2008 Olympic hopeful, has earned close to $300,000 as a top-ranked equestrian.

Still, while some rich women are intent on pulling themselves up by their own Manolo Blahnik shoe straps, society pages will always be rife with those heiresses more content to let daddy, or maybe a butler, slip the shoe on for them.

See our list of the ten hottest heiresses.

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