The prince insisted he was worth closer to $30bn and accused the respected US magazine of being "demonstrably biased" against Saudi Arabian firms.
Now Alwaleed has taken his complaints about the magazine to the high court in London, filing a defamation claim against the Forbes publisher, its editor Randall Lane and two of its journalists, according to court documents seen by the Guardian.
Through his Saudi-based investment vehicle, Kingdom Holding, Alwaleed owns large stakes in Apple, Twitter and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and has built a formidable property portfolio, including the Savoy Hotel in London and the Plaza in New York.
Alwaleed is known for his opulent lifestyle – a gold throne sits in the centre of his private Boeing 747 jet, dubbed "the flying palace" – but his displays of grandeur rarely spill into public disputes with the media.
Forbes said it calculated his fortune based on the underlying value of Kingdom Holding's investments, rather than the price of its shares on the Saudi stock exchange, the Tadawul. The magazine said the company's share price inexplicably rose each year as it was compiling data for its Rich List and quoted a former Alwaleed executive who described the Tadawul as a gambling site.
Forbes also claimed it had been subject to "intermittent lobbying, cajoling and threatening" by Alwaleed's coterie of advisors in a bid to boost his ranking on the annual list.
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