Name
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
Davos, Switzerland
Switzerland
Louis Dreyfus SAS
Commodities
$5,700,000,000
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#303 Billionaires 2019
#99 Power Women 2018
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 recently secured financing to buy out the remaining family stakes in the company, spending at least $800 million. 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.
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