| Margarita Louis-Dreyfus | |
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Margarita Louis-Dreyfus in 2011.
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| Born | Margarita Bogdanova 1 July 1962 Leningrad, USSR (now St Petersburg, Russia) |
| Residence | Zurich (Zollikon), Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation | Businesswoman |
| Known for | Chairman of Louis Dreyfus Group |
| Net worth | US$9.5 billion (October 2016)[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Louis-Dreyfus (m. 1992; d. 2009) |
| Partner(s) | Philipp Hildebrand |
| Children | 5 |
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 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.
Margarita Louis-Dreyfus net worth: Margarita Louis-Dreyfus is a Russian-born businesswoman who has a net worth of $8.8 billion. Margarita Louis-Dreyfus took over her husband Robert’s commodities giant, the Louis Dreyfus Group, after he died of leukemia in 2009. Being a leader and chairman of the group, she decided to sell the company’s energy trading business in October 2012. Furthermore, Margarita raised capital on the public markets for the first time in the history of the 160-year-old firm, thus issuing $350 million in bonds on the Singapore market. Reportedly, she plans to spend around $7 billion on acquisitions over the next five years. Furthermore, she seems to be preparing her three children to join the multinational trading group, which is present in 53 countries. According to recent reports, she has put her twins, Kyril and Mauric, in boarding school in Singapore. While her eldest son, Eric, he had an internship at a competing firm called Glencore. Margarita married Robert in 1992, after they met on a plane in 1988. Both of them entered marriage for the second time. Margarita’s cousin by marriage is Seinfeld actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Margarita’s late husband Robert’s first cousins was Julia’s billionaire father Gerard Louis-Dreyfus.
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