Lily Safra, the Brazilian-Monegasque millionaire, died on July 9 at the age of 87. Lily Safra, wife of financier Edmond Safra, died in Geneva and will be buried on July 11. She died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, according to Foundation representative Edmond J. Safra. Lily Watkins was born on December 30, 1934 in Porto Alegre, Brazil to Wolf White Watkins, a Czechoslovakian railroad engineer, and Anita Noudelman de Castro. She grew up in Rio de Janeiro.
Lily Safra married Argentine sock magnate Mario Cohen when she was 17 years old. Claudio, Eduardo and Adriana were the couple’s three children. They divorced in the early 1960s. Alfredo “Freddy” Monteverde, owner of the Ponto Frio chain of Brazilian appliance stores, remarried her in 1965. Carlos, their only child, was adopted. Monteverde committed suicide four years after their wedding in 1969. Lily’s late husband gave her all his possessions, according to historian Isabel Vincent.
🏴 | Brasil Murió |Lily Safra| fue una multimillionaria y miembro de la alta sociedad brasileña que logró una riqueza considerable a través de sus cuatro matrimonios, en 2018, ocupó el puesto n.º 1756 en la lista de multimillionarios del mundo de Forbes, murió a los 87 años. pic.twitter.com/yIJw27FH3B
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In 1976, Lily Safra married her fourth husband, Edmond Safra
In 1976, Lily Watkins married for the fourth time, this time to Edmond Safra. He was a famous Brazilian banker who founded the National Bank of the Republic in New York. After World War II, the late banker’s family moved to Brazil. Edmond Safra owned banks in New York and Europe, as did his brothers Moise and Joseph, who also controlled banks. The couple spends their time between New York, Geneva, Monaco and France. Both were art collectors, writes the New York Post. According to reports, Lily Safra reportedly paid $103.4 million for an Alberto Giacometti artwork.
Edmond died in a suspicious fire in Monaco in 1999, which was eventually ruled arson. According to reports, the late banker felt so protected at home that he “didn’t have his insurance at night when he slept in Monaco.” It was later proven that Ted Maher, his nurse, started the fire.
Michael Griffith, the convict’s lawyer, revealed that his client started the fire, but only to seek Edmond’s approval.
“It was the most idiotic, craziest thing a human being could do. He had no intention of killing Mr. Safra. He just wanted Mr. Safra to appreciate him more. Mr. Safra was his favorite. This was the best job he ever had.”
According to Jewage, Edmond Safra left half of his assets to various organizations and the other half to his family and wife, who received $800 million. After Edmond’s death, Lily Safra did not marry.
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