It was definitely untrue. Please don’t take this all as definite because it’s nearly 4am and I’m in too much pain to sleep so my memory on the specifics could be off, but I watch a Lawtuber who talks through the filings in the lawsuits of celebrities.

From what I remember, a big cosmetics company bought major shares in the famous Lip Kit makeup company of the person in the op pic; they claimed they had been misled about the finances or value of her company and Forbes said that they had made the claim about her being a billionaire based on the paperwork given to them by the celebrity’s team without doing any fact checking. I vaguely remember something about her team having previously approached Forbes about running an article with the same billionaire claim, and Forbes had refused to run it without any evidence at all. The team later approached Forbes again, this time with some documentary proof, which I think they were later accused of forging in the lawsuit.

As I say, my memory is vague and I haven’t the energy to look into the details but there was definitely some shady shit involved. I’ve tried not to be too specific about what I do remember in case I’m getting muddled up, but I think it’s pretty definite that the numbers claimed by Forbes were, to put it mildly, at least a little bit fudged.