Amazon founder Bezos slips to No 3 as Ortego is now world's 2nd richest person

After a brief stint as the richest person in the world last week, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has now dropped two spots on Forbes' real-time billionaire rankings to third place behind Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and Spanish retail tycoon Amancio Ortega.

Bezos started this week as the world's second richest person behind Gates, but dropped behind Ortega by the end of the day on Monday, Forbes reports.