Benjamin de Rothschild | |
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Born |
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
30 July 1963
Nationality | French |
Education | Institut Florimont Pepperdine University |
Occupation | Banker |
Spouse(s) | Ariane Langner (m. 1999) |
Children | 4 |
Parent(s) |
Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild Nadine Lhopitalier |
Benjamin de Rothschild (born 30 July 1963) is a french banker and businessman, the chairman of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, a private swiss bank established by his father and owned by the family. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France, the only child of the Baron Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, a banker, and Nadine Lhopitalier (1932–), an actress. He married Ariane de Rothschild (née Langner) on 23 January 1999 and they have four children. He is a descendant of the French branch of the Rothschild family.
Benjamin is a scion of the secondary, Parisian Rothschild dynasty. He is the son of Nadine Lhopitalier, a French actress and author who converted to Judaism, and Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, a Swiss banker of Jewish descent. His paternal grandparents were the French banker Maurice de Rothschild (1881–1957) and his first wife, the Swiss Baroness, Noémie Halphen (1888–1968). Noémie Halphen was the granddaughter of financier Eugène Péreire of the Sephardic-Jewish Péreire family of Portugal who were banking rivals of the Rothschilds.
He is second and third-cousins of the main French family, who manage the primary Parisian finance houses. These include Baron David Rene de Rothschild, Baron Eric de Rothschild, Baron Robert de Rothschild, and Count Philippe de Nicolay.