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)
Robert Louis-Dreyfus
(m. 1992; died 2009)
Partner(s)Philipp Hildebrand
Children5

Early life

Born Margarita Olegovna Bogdanova (Russian: Маргарита Олеговна Богданова) in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), 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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