NET WORTH: $4.15 billion, up 13 percent

LAST YEAR: $3.67 billion

AGE: 53

RESIDENCE: Malibu

SOURCE OF WEALTH: Inheritance, real estate

THE MONEY: Largest shareholder of Glendale self-storage giant Public Storage Co., with 11 percent of shares; benefited as share price rose 13 percent. Value of retail real estate investment portfolio also increased.

BUZZ: Transfer of shares in Public Storage from father, 81-year-old company founder B. Wayne Hughes to Gustavson and brother B. Wayne Hughes Jr. complete. Continues to keep very low profile, rarely appearing in public. Spent most of adult life in various management positions at Public Storage, rising to senior vice president of administration before leaving to focus on other endeavors. In recent years, has focused on American Commercial Equities Management, private real estate investment firm started by brother. ACEM’s portfolio, estimated to be worth more than $700 million, includes more than 80 retail and mixed-use properties in Central and Southern California as well as Honolulu. Elected to USC board of trustees in 2010; earned bachelor of science in public affairs from school in 1983. Close friend of USC President Max Nikias. Husband, Eric, is actor and producer whose credits include “Baywatch,” and “Northern Exposure”; he spends much of time now as marketing director for father-in-law’s thoroughbred stud farm in Lexington, Ky. Couple has two children and live in Escondido Beach section of Malibu. Involved in HollyRod Foundation, which helps people with autism and Parkinson’s disease; she is on board of USC-Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles Institute for Pediatric Clinical Research.