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The villa is situated in 7.3 hectares (18 acres) of grounds. The villa has had several notable owners including Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Izaak and Dorothy J. Killam, and, since 1987, by Edmond (1932–1999) and Lily Safra (1934–2022), who inherited the villa after her husband's death.
The Villa Leopolda at Villefranche-sur-Mer from the road to La Condamine. Edmond J. Safra (Arabic: ادموند يعقوب صفرا; 6 August 1932 – 3 December 1999) was a Lebanese-Brazilian billionaire banker and philanthropist of Syrian descent.
Lily Safra was born Lily Watkins [3] on 30 December 1934 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.She was the daughter of Wolf White Watkins, a railway engineer of Anglo-Jewish origin who was born in Czechoslovakia and moved to South America during the electrification of Brazilian railroads, and Annita Noudelman de Castro, a Uruguayan of Russian Jewish ancestry.
Excerpt from Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows by Isabel Vincent ©HarperCollins Publishers, 2010 ($25.99) In Vincent's book (read DailyFinance's review ...
By Carrie Hojnicki. Joseph Safra is the richest banker in the world, according to Forbes. And, incidentally, the name Safra means yellow, or gold, in Arabic.
In fact, it is so irresistible that I found it next to impossible to put down an advance copy I received of Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making Book Review: The Making of One of the World's ...
The Safra family is a prominent Brazilian family of Syrian Jewish descent. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Safras were bankers and gold traders originally from Aleppo. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] They were engaged in the financing of trade between Beirut , Aleppo , Istanbul and Alexandria .
Lebanese-Brazilian financier Joseph Safra, who built a banking empire spanning from Brazil to Switzerland and a fortune that made him the world's wealthiest banker, has died at the age of 82 ...