Margarita Louis-Dreyfus

Russian businessperson
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroRussian businessperson
PlacesRussia
isBusinessperson
Work fieldBusiness
Gender
Female
Birth1 June 1962, Saint Petersburg
Age62 years
Family
Spouse:Robert Louis-Dreyfus Philipp Hildebrand
The details

Biography

Margarita Louis-Dreyfus (born 1 July 1962) is a Russian-born Swiss billionaire businesswoman, chairman of Louis Dreyfus.

Early life

Born Margarita Bogdanova in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), she grew up in an orphanage and studied in a trade school as a retail accountant.

Career

On 29 August 2016, Louis-Dreyfus and the Marseille mayor, Jean-Claude Gaudin, stated during a press conference with Frank McCourt that McCourt had agreed in principle to purchase the French Ligue 1 football team, Olympique de Marseille, owned by Louis-Dreyfus. The purchase deal was completed for a reported price tag of 45 million euros on 17 October 2016.

Personal life

In 1988, on a Zurich to London flight, she met Robert Louis-Dreyfus. They married in 1992. Margarita, who had been working for a circuit-board equipment seller, became a full-time wife and mother. She took over as chairman of the Louis Dreyfus Group in 2009, following her husband's death from leukemia.

In 2016, she had a net worth of $9.5 billion. She is a Swiss citizen living in Zurich with her three sons (Éric born in 1992, and twins, Maurice and Kyril, born in 1998), according to Forbes. Her partner is Philipp Hildebrand, the former head of the Swiss central bank. She gave birth to twin girls on March 21, 2016.

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