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(KSL News) -- For the first time, Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans consists exclusively of people worth $1 billion or more.
As a group, the people who made the rankings are worth a record $1.25 trillion, compared to $1.13 trillion last year.
The richest man in American is still Microsoft founder Bill Gates, worth an estimated 53-billion-dollars.
Warren Buffet contines to be right behind him at 46 billion.
Casino Magnate Sheldon Adelson was 15 last year but number three this year with 20.5 billion.
The two Google founders are the youngest to make the list. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are only 33-years old. They're worth 11 billion dollars each.
Utahns on the list are James Sorenson, coming in at number 56, worth an estimated 3.9 billion and Jon Huntsman Senior, at 198 on the list, with 1.6 billion dollars.
