Rank #2724
Lee Jay-hyun
Net worth $1.4B
food products, entertainment · South Korea
- Born
- Mar 19, 1960
- Age
- 66
- Source
- food products, entertainment
- Residence
- Seoul
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Korea University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Lee Jay-hyun is chairman of the CJ Group, a conglomerate that operates the country's largest food and beverage company, CJ Cheiljedang.
- He is the eldest grandson of the late Samsung founder Lee Byung-chull; CJ officially separated from Samsung in 1997.
- In 2015, Lee Jay-hyun was convicted and sentenced to two and a half years in jail on embezzlement and tax evasion charges.
- In 2016, he was pardoned by then president Park Geun-hye and returned to his post in 2017. He is facing a new tax evasion probe in 2025.
- His CJ Group began as a sugar mill and boosted domestic sugar production just after the end of the Korean War.
- In 1995, CJ paid $300 million for an 11% stake in Steven Spielberg's production vehicle Dreamworks SKG.
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