NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes' net worth is "close to US$400 million," according to sources close to him who contacted Wealth-X on Wednesday.

Wealth-X had earlier estimated his personal fortune to be worth US$1.6 billion.

The sources say that Hughes has exercised nearly all of his Facebook stock options and his "current after-tax net worth is approximately US$400 million."

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