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Lily Safra
Lily Safra (née Watkins) is a Brazilian philanthropist and socialite who attained considerable wealth through her four marriages. By March 2013, her net worth was estimated at $1.2 billion,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.forbes.com/profile/lily-safra/ )〕 ranking her as one of the richest people in the world according to ''Forbes''. Safra has a significant art collection and is the owner of the historic Villa Leopolda on the French Riviera.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mhj45edfjh/villa-leopolda-villefranche-sur-mer-france/ )〕
==Biography==
Safra was born Lily Watkins on December 30, 1934, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, daughter of Wolf White Watkins, a Czechoslovakian railway engineer who moved to South America and Annita Noudelman de Castro, a Uruguayan of Russian-Jewish ancestry. She grew up in Rio de Janeiro but moved to Uruguay where, at the age of 17, she met and married, Mario Cohen, an Argentine hosiery magnate of Italian-Jewish descent. They had three children: Claudio (who died in a car crash together with his three-year-old son in Brazil ca. 1989),〔''The Mail on Sunday'', 21 September 2008〕 Eduardo, and Adriana.
Lily and Cohen divorced in the early 1960s. In 1965, she married Alfredo "Freddy" Monteverde, (formerly Greenberg)〔()〕), a Romanian Jewish immigrant who fled Europe in 1939,〔 and a leader in the Brazilian household appliance distribution business where he established the ''Ponto Frio'' brand. He and Lily adopted a child, named Carlos. In 1969, Monteverde died by suicide.〔''The Mail on Sunday'', "Reissued in America: the murder plot novel that was pulped over feud with Gilded Lily", 21 September 2008〕 According to biographer Isabel Vincent, Monteverde's will left all his assets to her and one month after her husband's death, she moved to London, where Monteverde’s banker, Edmond Safra, helped her secure control over her late husband’s entire fortune.〔 She dated Safra for some time but the romance ended after her family, of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, did not approve of her relationship with Safra, who was of Sephardic Jewish descent.〔 In 1972, she married businessman Samuel Bendahan, a Sephardic Jew.〔 They separated after two weeks and she divorced him after one year of marriage.〔〔
In 1976, she married Edmond Safra, a prominent Brazilian-naturalized Jewish Lebanese banker, and the founder, among other achievements, of Republic National Bank of New York. The couple divided their time between homes in Monaco, Geneva, New York and the Villa Leopolda on the French Riviera. In a crime that attracted extensive media interest, Safra was killed in a fire that was determined to be arson. Edmond Safra "apparently felt so safe here that he did not have his bodyguards stay the night when he slept in Monaco". Ted Maher, a former Green Beret, who was Safra's bodyguard and nurse, was accused of starting the fire. His lawyer, Michael Griffith, has said that Maher did indeed start the fire in order to gain acceptance from Mr. Safra and that "It was a stupid, most insane thing a human being could do,” says Griffith. “He did not intend to kill Mr. Safra. He just wanted Mr. Safra to appreciate him more. He loved Mr. Safra. This was the best job of his life.” However, controversy still surrounds the case, as after his 8-year imprisonment, Maher has maintained his innocence. Safra left 50% of his assets to several charities, with the remainder divided up between his family members and wife who received $800 million.〔() 〕〔() 〕
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