Giacometti Buyer Revealed: Maneater
Update: the buyer of the Giacometti sculpture, the "Walking Man I" was revealed! The buyer is Lily Safra, a Brazilian-born widow of the banker Edmond J. Safra based in London.
So who is this wealthy woman? Turns out, she's a bit of a tigress. Born in 1938, Lily has been married four times. Her last husband died in 1999 in an apartment fire in Monaco. From all her marriages, she has amassed over $1 billion in assets. She is currently listed on the Forbes list of wealthiest people, coming in at number 701.
Wikipedia tells us that Lily first married at the age of 17 to an Argentine hosiery magnate. She had three children with him and then divorced in the early 1960s. In 1965, she was bitten by Cupid again and married a leader in the Brazilian appliance distribution business. Together they had one child and then her husband committed suicide in 1969. In 1972 she set her sights on another businessman but they divorced after only a year of marriage.
In 1976 she married Edmond Safra, a prominent Brazilian-naturalized Jewish Lebanese banker and the founder of the Republic National Bank of New York. In a crime that attracted extensive media interest, Safra was killed in a fire that was determined to be arson. No children were born of their union.
Sounds like a real man-eater....
So who is this wealthy woman? Turns out, she's a bit of a tigress. Born in 1938, Lily has been married four times. Her last husband died in 1999 in an apartment fire in Monaco. From all her marriages, she has amassed over $1 billion in assets. She is currently listed on the Forbes list of wealthiest people, coming in at number 701.
Wikipedia tells us that Lily first married at the age of 17 to an Argentine hosiery magnate. She had three children with him and then divorced in the early 1960s. In 1965, she was bitten by Cupid again and married a leader in the Brazilian appliance distribution business. Together they had one child and then her husband committed suicide in 1969. In 1972 she set her sights on another businessman but they divorced after only a year of marriage.
In 1976 she married Edmond Safra, a prominent Brazilian-naturalized Jewish Lebanese banker and the founder of the Republic National Bank of New York. In a crime that attracted extensive media interest, Safra was killed in a fire that was determined to be arson. No children were born of their union.
Sounds like a real man-eater....
Posted by Socialista at 3/2/2010 2:50 PM 
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