Rank #757
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus & family
Net worth $5.5B
Commodities · Switzerland
- Born
- Jun 01, 1962
- Age
- 63
- Source
- Commodities
- Residence
- Davos
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Marital status
- Widowed
- Children
- 3
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Margarita Louis-Dreyfus is the majority owner and chairwoman of agricultural commodities giant Louis-Dreyfus.
- Her husband Robert Louis-Dreyfus died of leukemia in 2009, leaving her a 69.6% stake in the now 167-year-old business.
- She reportedly pledged her shares to take out a $1 billion loan in 2019 to buy out minority stakes owned by family members.
- In 2016, she sold French soccer team Olympique Marseille to former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, but held onto a 5% stake.
- That same year, she gave birth to twins at age 53. Her reported partner is Philipp Hildebrand, vice chairman of BlackRock.
- Born and raised in Russia, Louis-Dreyfus was reportedly orphaned at age 11 when her parents died in a train crash.
- Before meeting Robert on a flight in 1988, she sold computer parts.