Alec Wildenstein

Business Executive

Birthday August 5, 1940

Birth Sign Leo

Birthplace France

DEATH DATE Feb 18, 2008 (67)

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About

Billionaire businessman best known for breeding and owning champion racehorses. He came from a line of wealthy art dealers.

Before Fame

He inherited $10 billion from his father, Daniel Wildenstein, art dealer and student of impressionism.

Trivia

He bred and owned a number of winning racehorses including Westerner which won the European Champion Stayer in 2004 and 2005.

Family Life

He and Jocelyne Périsset had two children, Diane and Alec Jr. Their divorce gained national coverage. He remarried to Liouba Stoupakova in 2000 before his death by prostate cancer in 2008.

Associated With

He was a businessman raised in New York like Donald Trump .