Portrait of Carmen Thyssen

Rank #2649

Carmen Thyssen

Net worth $1.5B

Investments, art · Spain

Born
Apr 23, 1943
Age
83
Source
Investments, art
Residence
Citizenship
Spain
Marital status
Widowed
Children
3
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Carmen Thyssen inherited her fortune from her husband, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, when he died in 2002.
  • She owns an art collection being exhibited at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid that is valued by the Spanish government at more than $1.4 billion.
  • Carmen Thyssen, a former Miss Spain, married Hans Thyssen-Bornemisza, heir to a German industrial fortune, in 1985; she was his fifth wife.
  • Hans and his son Georg, now both deceased, settled a 3-year court battle over control of the family's Monaco-based TBG Group months before the elder Thyssen died in 2002.
  • The Thyssen Museum exhibits the government-owned Thyssen Bornemisza collection as well as the private collection of Carmen Thyssen.