Arpad Busson
| Arpad Busson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
27 January 1963 Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Occupation | Financier, Philanthropist |
| Partner(s) |
Elle Mcpherson (1996–2005) Uma Thurman (2007–2009; 2011–2014) |
| Children | 3 Arpad Flynn, Aurelius Cy, Rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence (Luna). |
Arpad Busson (born 27 January 1963) is a London-based French financier. Busson entered the world of hedge funds in 1986 working in New York. He is the founder and Chairman of the EIM Group, a fund of funds company. Busson is also active in a number of philanthropic causes around the globe. According to the French business magazine Challenges, financier Arpad Busson is a multi-millionaire with a net worth of €150 million at 2013.
Arpad Busson's father, Pascal Busson, was a former French army officer and Algerian War veteran, who later turned financier. His mother, Florence "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith, was an English former debutante. His aunt, Joanna Harcourt-Smith, was a companion of Timothy Leary, who coincidentally was married in the early 1960s to the mother of Arpad's partner, Uma Thurman. His parents met in Paris and named their son after the Hungarian-born banker Árpád Plesch (1889–1974), who was not only Florence Busson's stepfather (he was the second husband of her mother, Marysia Ulam-Krauss Harcourt-Smith), but also her stepgrandfather (Plesch's first wife was his second wife's mother, Leonie Caro Ulam). Plesch was a mentor to Italy's richest man, Gianni Agnelli, the late head of Fiat.
Growing up in France, some sources have suggested that Busson made early profits selling toothpicks door-to-door (which he denies), but he was educated in France and at the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. He then served national service as a medic in the French army, where a friend said: "He loved the discipline of the army - it was the making of him.".
On being demobilised, Busson had a well-publicised relationship with the actress Farrah Fawcett and appeared in tabloid gossip columns. As he often refuses to give interviews, stories surround Busson - the story about Fawcett is that they met on the French Riviera. The story is only partly true, in that it was perpetuated by the gossip columnist "Taki" as a sort of in-joke: Taki knew Busson's mother, who was friends with Fawcett.
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