Felipa Jove, the Galician millionaire who rubs shoulders on the Forbes List with Sandra Ortega and Alicia Koplowitz

• Fortunes Manuel Jove, the discreet Galician who started in a workshop at age 11 and today leaves a billion-dollar fortune to his heirs

The pandemic crisis has also affected the pockets of the richest Spaniards: some, like Amancio Ortega, have lost several hundred million, but others, like Juan Roig, the owner of Mercadona, have lost more millionaire.

The two of them continue to appear at the top of the Forbes list of the 100 richest Spaniards, where this year 17 new names are included, including that of

(51).

The daughter of the late owner of the

holding

is ranked 42nd, as does her brother Manuel Ángel, each with a fortune of 500 million.

The death last May of their father, the businessman

, founder of the real estate

, has placed them on the coveted list published each year by the American magazine.

His father was Galician, like Amancio Ortega, and he shared another trait with him: he started from scratch, working from the age of 11 in his father's carpentry workshop, and managed to found a real estate emporium that went public in 2004 and

, months before the housing bubble burst.

Now it is his children, Felipa and Manuel, who pilot Inveravante, the

that Jove founded after the sale of the real estate, with investments in construction, the energy sector, housing development, hotels or wineries, among others.

The responsibility of preserving and expanding their father's legacy falls on both of them after María José, the father's elder sister and right hand man,

in 2002 from a

He was 37 years old and had two five-year-old twin daughters.

It was a tremendous blow that left the whole family marked.

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A year after her death, Jove set up a

dedicated to social and educational projects, and to which Felipa, as president, dedicates almost all her time.

A photo of his sister presides over the office he goes to every day.

and had a more leading attitude than mine. I understood it from a very young age: Maria was very charismatic and my role was to help her," she said in an interview published three years ago in Out of Series.

Felipa, who was named after her strong Castilian grandmother, combines the management of the foundation, which includes

her father's

-with 550 works by about 250 authors- with the

.

Currently accumulates 25 active positions in

companies

.

His brother Manuel Ángel is in charge of the heritage area of ​​Inveravante, which is present in Spain, Morocco, Mexico, Brazil, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Romania.

Extremely discreet

and shy, she leads a very normal life in La Coruña, where she lives with her husband, Javier, and her 21-year-old daughter.

Like his father, he does not like to appear in the media, although he usually uses social networks to make the María José Jove Foundation visible.

She is a great lover of family and animals, especially dogs.

As a child she dreamed of being a veterinarian, but ended up studying Business Management.

She loves sunbathing, healthy living and sports, especially

, the practice of which keeps her in shape.

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