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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina's net worth is $58 million
Hillary Clinton, the Democrats' scandal-plagued standard bearer, is worth $45 million
Lincoln Chafee sits at $32 million followed by Dr. Ben Carson at $26 million and Jeb Bush at $22 million
Bernie Sanders, Marco Rubio and Martin O'Malley are the only major-party candidates who aren't millionaires
Forbes magazine ranked the White House hopefuls' fortunes, but started a new feud with Donald Trump by claiming he's worth ONLY $4.5 billion

By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com

Published: 11:25 EST, 29 September 2015 | Updated: 15:54 EST, 29 September 2015

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Other than multi-billionaire Donald Trump, the wealthiest major party candidates in the 2016 presidential contest are the two women running to succeed Barack Obama.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is worth an astonishing $58 million, according to a new accounting from Forbes magazine. Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, has $45 million in assets.

Although Clinton rode into the financial stratosphere on the coattails of former President Bill Clinton, her husband, neither of the power-females inherited their wealth.

The same can't be said of fourth-place Lincoln Chafee, the Rhode Island political royalty who inherited his wealth – and his onetime U.S. Senate seat – from his dad.

GIRL POWER: Carly Fiorina (right) and Hillary Clinton (left, with husband Bill) are the two wealthiest presdiential candidates not named 'Trump'

THE DONALD'S DISCONTENT: Trump says he's worth $10 billion, but Forbes magazine pegged his net worth as less than half that amount

Trump's bottom-line balance sheet shows a staggering $4.5 billion, according to Forbes, but The Donald's own statements leave that figure in the dust.

'I'm worth MUCH more than $10 billion,' he told DailyMail.com in July during an interview in his New York City office. At the time, Bloomberg News had pegged his fortune at a relatively puny $2.9 billion.

Trump has filed a financial statement with the Federal Election Commission, but the broad asset categories – and their small size, relative to his fortune – made it impossible to determine his actual net worth by looking at them.

In a press release in mid-July, Trump's office stated: 'As of this date, Mr. Trump's net worth is in excess of TEN BILLION DOLLARS.'

Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks told DailyMail.com on Tuesday that the Republican front-runner knows the value of his own company and wasn't fazed by the magazine's low-ball estimate.

'That is their opinion,' Hicks said. 'Forbes did not include branding, branded product or brand value.'

'Additionally, they did not have access to all of Mr. Trump’s assets as the Trump Organization is a private company. Nevertheless, their story was a great compliment.'

Hicks' assessment marked a striking contrast from what Trump himself told the magazine.

'I'm worth much more than you have me down [for],' he told Forbes.

A different, 'respected magazine that's coming out' soon would value his fortune at $11.5 billion, he promised.

'You're gonna look bad. And look, all I can say is Forbes is a bankrupt magazine, doesn’t know what they're talking about.'

Forbes reports in its October 19 issue that Fiorina, one of Trump's closest polling rivals, has more than 1,000 investments.

But HIllary Clinton's top leveraged assets seem to be her famous name and the connections she made while first lady, a U.S. senator and secretary of state.

Hillary and Bill have earned a combined $230 million, largely in speaking fees and book royalties, since leaving the White House in 2001.

But the pair's own federal disclosure forms – like Trump's, they're signed under penalty of perjury – declare that they're worth somewhere between $11 million and $53 million together.

Forbes determined that the real number is around $45 million. That leaves a ton of money missing, even after a $95 million tax bill, $22 million in charitable contributions, $13 million spent on Hillary's failed 2008 presidential bid and $5 milllion spent on two homes.

MONEY TRAIL: Net worths of the presidential candidates according to 'Forbes'

Donald Trump (R) – $4.5 billion

Carly Fiorina (R) – $58 million

Hillary Clinton (D) – $45 million

Lincoln Chafee (D) – $32 million

Ben Carson (R) – $26 million

Jeb Bush (R) – $22 million

George Pataki (R) – $13 million

John Kasich (R) – $10 million+

Mike Huckabee (R) – $9 million

Jim Gilmore (R) – $7 million

Jim Webb (D) – $6 million

Bobby Jindal (R) – $5 million

Ted Cruz (R) – $3.5 million

Chris Christie (R) – $3 million

Rand Paul (R) – $2 million

Rick Santorum (R) – $2 million

Lindsey Graham (R) – $1 million

Bernie Sanders (D) – $700,000

Marco Rubio (R) – $100,000

Martin O’Malley (D) – $0

THE MISSING MONEY: 'If the Clintons made $230 million, spent $135 million and have just $45 million left over, what happened to the other $50 million?' Forbes asks

'If the Clintons made $230 million, spent $135 million and have just $45 million left over, what happened to the other $50 million?' Forbes asks.

'We simply could not make the numbers add up,' the magazine reported.

'That's kind of strange,' Joe Biden's accountant Walter Deyhle told Forbes. 'You have to report all of your assets. You have to report assets that are owned by your spouse.'

On the poorhouse-end of the presidential spectrum, former Maryland Democratic governor Gov. Martin O'Malley is worth a giant goose egg.

He went deep into debt putting his kids through college, and the governor's salary is $150,000. His job before that, mayor of Baltimore, paid just a hair over $85,000.

The next poorest is Marco Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida. He owns a house and a speedboat and invests in college savings plans, but is also saddled with 'lots of debt,' according to Forbes.

Vermont Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders rounds out the presidential contest's only three non-millionaires. He's worth $700,000 on paper, although Forbes doesn't say where the money came from – only that he has worked as both a carpenter and a filmmaker.

The salary for a sitting senator is $174,000 and hasn't changed since 2009.

QUIETLY RICH: Dr. Ben Carson has amassed a $26 million fortune while also creeping up behind the Republican front-runner

A STUDY IN BANK BALANCES: Former Arkansas governor and Fox News host Mike Huckabee (left) is worth an estimated $9 million while FLorida Sen. Marco Rubio is one of the poorest in the field with $100,000

Aside from the financial extremes in the race, the biggest surprise in Forbes' tally might be the $26 million amassed by the mild-mannered Dr. Ben Carson, whose soft-spoken style and thoughtful debate performances have brought him within a single percentage point of the pack-leading Trump.

Carson, a retired pediatric neurosurgeon, earned a healthy salary at Johns Hopkins Hospital as the youngest physician ever to head a department there.

LOCK, STOCK and BARREL: Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, an eye doctor, sold his ophthalmology practice for $220,000

But his life's second act – politics could be his third – saw him sitting on the boards of directors of Costco and Kellogg's, pulling in fees while he wrote books and consulted on a TV movie about his life.

Carson's wealth puts him ahead of the famously named former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is worth $22 million.

Other notable routes to seven-figure political wealth include Ohio Gov. John Kasich ($10+ million) and his stint at Lehman Brothers; Mike Huckabee ($9 million) and his long-running Fox News Channel weekend show, plus his 2015 infomercials for an herbal diabetes 'cure'; and Virginia's former Democratic senator Jim Webb ($6 million), a serial author who wrote the script for the war film 'Rules of Engagement.'

Bobby Jindal ($5 million) earns just $130,000 per year as Louisiana's governor. Ted Cruz ($3.5 million) is an attorney but his wife Heidi has worked at Goldman Sachs for more than a decade.

Similarly, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's spouse Mary Pat has earned most of their $3 million fortune on Wall Street.

Closer to earth, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul ($2 million) has written three books and raked in $220,000 when he sold his ophthalmology practice.

Rick Santorum ($2 million), a former Pennsylvania U.S. senator, is a small-time Trump, collecting rents on a half-dozen six properties near Penn State University.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is worth a more modest $1 million, mostly due to his Senate salary and the value of his homes.