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.