Margarita Louis-Dreyfus

Margarita Louis-Dreyfus (née Bogdanova; born 1 July 1962) is a Russian-born Swiss billionaire businesswoman, chairperson of Louis Dreyfus.

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Olegovna and the family name is Bogdanova.
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus in 2011.
Born
Margarita Olegovna Bogdanova

(1962-07-01) 1 July 1962
Leningrad, USSR (now St Petersburg, Russia)
NationalitySwiss
OccupationBusinesswoman
Known forChairman of Louis Dreyfus Group
Net worthUS$9.5 billion (October 2016)[1]
Spouse(s)
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(
m. 1992; died 2009)
Partner(s)Philipp Hildebrand
Children5

Early life

Born Margarita Olegovna Bogdanova (Russian: Маргарита Олеговна Богданова) in Leningrad, she was raised by her grandfather, an electrical engineer, and studied law in Moscow and economics in Leningrad.

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.[2][3][4]

Personal life

In 1988, on a Zurich to London flight, she met Robert Louis-Dreyfus. They married in 1992 and had three sons.[5] Margarita, who had been working for a circuit-board equipment seller, became a full-time wife and mother.[6] She took over as chairman of the Louis Dreyfus Group in 2009, following her husband's death from leukemia.[7]

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 1997), according to Forbes.[7] Her partner is Philipp Hildebrand, the former head of the Swiss central bank.[8] She gave birth to twin girls on 21 March 2016.[9]

Margarita is the second cousin once removed (by marriage) of American actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

References
  1. "Margarita Louis-Dreyfus & family".
  2. "Former LA Dodgers owner McCourt to buy Marseille". 29 August 2016 – via Reuters.
  3. Times, Los Angeles. "French soccer club thinks Frank McCourt led Dodgers to 'tremendous economic success'".
  4. "Marseille: Frank McCourt promises £180m investment after buying Ligue 1 club". BBC. 17 October 2016.
  5. "Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, la tsarine des affaires - Madame Figaro". Madame.lefigaro.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-02-23.
  6. Katz, Alan (31 January 2012). "Louis-Dreyfus Widow Chairman Ousts Men Running Commodities Giant". Bloomberg. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  7. "Margarita Louis-Dreyfus". Forbes. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  8. "Louis Dreyfus Chairwoman, Pregnant With Twins, Plans Leave". Bloomberg Business. Bloomberg. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  9. "Margarita Louis-Dreyfus gives birth to twins". Retrieved 21 March 2016.


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