BRITAIN’S richest gypsy Alfie Best has suffered a brutal £3million blow as his net worth plummets on the Rich List.
The caravan park titan was worth an estimated £947 million but he has dropped down to £944, according to
The 54-year-old, who founded mobile home company , is currently number 169 on the Rich List.
Last year he and his family were number 174 on the high-profile register, dropping down five places.
His whopping wealth climbed by £202 million the year before last – meaning he is well on track to becoming Britain’s first Romany Gypsy billionaire.
On top of his holiday, Alfie is also the owner of non-league East Thurrock United, which he bought when the semi-proclub ran into financial trouble during.
However, Alfie made theand live as ataxexile inin April 2024.
Before moving, he went on a selling spree, selling off eightand his £4.5million seven-seaterACH130 helicopter, styled by Aston Martin, which boasts the production number 007 and registration G-YPSE on the fuselage.
now is renting a two-bedroom apartment in Monaco overlooking the famouscourse until he gets residency in the millionaires’ playground, where residents don’t pay tax.
The property tycoon describes himself as an “old-school, blood and blisters businessman”;;.
He did not start his life in immense wealth and was born into a Romani gypsy family.
beside a road nearon April 12, 1970.
By the age of 10 he had started work — selling Tarmac door-to-door with his dad.
He was a car dealer when he was 17, moving on to selling vans before and mobile phones.
is now the chairman of Wyldecrest Parks — the.
His company has around 16,000 residents on over 100 sites in the UK, Europe and the US and employs 380 people.
His mother Jane Best always believed her son would do well in the future.
: “Whenwas a little boy, he come to me and said ‘that man got a cracking car over there. It’s a big. I said ‘You know what, you save your money and you’ll have a Rolls-Royce one day’.”;;
Alfie definitely heeded his mum’s advice, he grew up to be a business tycoon with an empire worth around £1.2 billion.
He made on the Rich List last year, earning a spot with 350 other millionaires and billionaires.
This year’s list marks the largest drop in billionaires in the guide’s 37-year history, with just 156 makingcompared to its peak of 177 in 2022.
The listreveals the country’s 350who share a net worth of £772.8 billion, a three per cent decrease from last year.
It evaluates factors including identifiable wealth like land and property, assets like art and racehorses, as well as shares in publicly quoted companies – it doesn’t include bank account figures.
Reality TV star Georgia Toffolo sits at 12th place in the under-40 list with a shared fortune of £425 million, according to The Sunday Times.
The figure combines the estimated wealth of the former Made In Chelsea star, 30, and her husband, BrewDog co-founder James Watt.
And pop icon Dua Lipa has become the youngest person on The Sunday Times Rich List 2025.
The 29-year-old, who has won several Brit Awards and three Grammys, is 34th on the list, with an estimated wealth of £115 million.
Other celebrities who made the list include Harry Kane, Daniel Radcliffe, Ellen Degeneres and Ed Sheeran.
andmade the list after amassing a net worth of £500 million.
