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Carmen Thyssen
Spain 83 years old
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Investments, art
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Residence
- Les Escaldes
- Marital Status
- Widowed
- Children
- 3
Biography
Carmen Thyssen inherited her fortune from her husband, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, when he died in 2002.
She owns an art collection being exhibited at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid that is valued by the Spanish government at more than $1.4 billion.
Carmen Thyssen, a former Miss Spain, married Hans Thyssen-Bornemisza, heir to a German industrial fortune, in 1985; she was his fifth wife.
Hans and his son Georg, now both deceased, settled a 3-year court battle over control of the family's Monaco-based TBG Group months before the elder Thyssen died in 2002.
The Thyssen Museum exhibits the government-owned Thyssen Bornemisza collection as well as the private collection of Carmen Thyssen.