‘Highest paid girl in Britain’ has greater than £2 billion in lower than a decade

The kilos are rolling in for ‘Britain’s highest paid girl’ after her pay package deal reportedly rose to an astonishing £280 million in 2025.

In accordance to the BBC, there’s a litany of billionaires utilizing Britain as their playground – 156 to be actual.

As per The Sunday Instances Wealthy Record 2025, these well-known faces embody the likes of Sir James Dyson, inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner (£20.8 billion), and Manchester United’s part-owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe (£17 billion).

Nonetheless, there’s one other rich one who you will not be aware of, and she or he’s thought of Britain’s ‘highest paid girl’.

Her identify is Denise Coates.

The 58-year-old, who resides in Cheshire together with her household, is the founder, majority shareholder, and joint chief govt of on-line wager firm Bet365.

Her brother, John Coates, is the opposite joint govt of the corporate.

Launched in 2001, Bet365 is without doubt one of the world’s largest on-line playing corporations, with EKG beforehand valuing its value at round £9 billion, as per The Guardian.

In accordance with newly printed accounts, the Etruria-based firm paid Coates a whopping wage of £104 million for the yr to March 2025.

This jaw-dropping determine is up from the £94.7 million she cashed in 2024.

It’s instructed that with the brand new figures, the playing empress has acquired payouts over the past eight years that equate to greater than £2 billion.

The BBC reported that Coates can be entitled to a minimum of half of Bet365’s £354 million in dividends paid out to shareholders in the course of the working yr.

This might take her whole haul for the interval to a minimum of £280 million, the outlet reported.

General, this can be a stellar enchancment on the £150 million windfall that almost all shareholder (58 p.c) in Bet365 acquired the earlier monetary yr.

It’s not her greatest payday although, when you can imagine it. Again in 2021, the billionaire businesswoman introduced in a document £469 million.

Details about Coates’ take-home pay comes after The Instances reported that Bet365’s pre-tax figures fell 43 p.c to £339 million from £3.7 billion over the 52 weeks to March 2025.

Income, nonetheless, rose 9 p.c to £4 billion, from £3.7 billion a yr earlier, the outlet reported.

Coates, a skilled accountant, based her household enterprise in a conveyable constructing in a Stoke-on-Trent automotive park in 2001.

She bought the net tackle off eBay a yr earlier, in accordance to Stoke-on-TrentLive.

“I used to be satisfied early on that playing would work properly on the web. It’s personal, accessible and lets you current an enormous vary of betting alternatives to clients,” Coates mentioned of her motivations.

She added that the web ‘gave [her] the chance to enter a brand new and worldwide market the place we had the potential of being one of the best’.

In addition to Bet365, the College of Sheffield graduate runs a basis in her identify, which her firm donated to in 2025.

In accordance with the Denise Coates Basis web site, it gives ‘grants to registered charities in England to assist their work regionally, nationally or internationally’.