Bernard Arnault's net worth was estimated at $211 billion
Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova has become the richest on the planet… daughter-in-law! All thanks to his father-in-law Bernard Arnault, whose fortune of $211 billion was recognized by the annual Forbes rating as the largest in the world — more than Elon Musk with his «pathetic» $219 billion and Bezos with his $170 billion with a penny. And although the fresh “Forbes” is all 74, I still immediately wanted to know, but how is his personal life? And not “from the facade”, from which big money loves big silence, but from the rear, where sometimes you can’t hide sewing in a bag.
Bernard Arnault with his daughter and his son Antoine with Natalia Vodianova
In the top of the famous hit parade of the wealthiest on the planet, Monsieur Arno at 74 was for the first time, although from his youth he owned the most elite trading houses that supply the most prestigious handbags and alcohol. And tirelessly merged and absorbed all new companies, thereby constantly increasing the family fortune. Today, the Arno group of companies (about 80 of the most famous fashion brands) is officially recognized as the world's largest supplier of luxury goods, it owns about 5 thousand boutiques in most countries of the world. For fun, market analysts have calculated that every minute on Earth, some lady in some part of the world carries her money into Arno's money box. Domestic model Natalia Vodianova entered this fashionable clan, taking in the midst of a pandemic (September 19, 2020) Antoine, the son of Monsieur Bernard from his first marriage, as her second husband. Before that, however, I had to endure 12 years of “cohabitation without a stamp” and give birth to two heirs, but now our Natasha is the legal wife of the eldest of the five children of Monsieur Arno, that is, the main heir to the empire of luxury.
The father of the family himself, and now the richest man in the world, has never experienced weakness for top models: the first wife is a housewife, the second is a pianist. Unless he is married for the second time, but otherwise secular reporters cause melancholy — no adultery, no dubious adventures. The children were brought up in strictness, working incognito as sellers in their father's boutiques during their school years. The first wife and mother of older children, Arno Ann Devaren, is not offended by the former, her son Antoine and daughter Delphine are not only not excommunicated from their father and his wealth, but also occupy key positions in their father's empire of luxury. The second wife and mother of three youngest sons Arno (the “smallest” is already 25, everyone is working for the benefit of the family clan), Canadian pianist Helen Mercier shares in an interview that she and Bernard love at first sight — that is, from the first sound of the Revolutionary Etude » Chopin, which Monsieur Arnaud personally performed at the dinner where Helene first saw him. As soon as Bernard divorced Anne and married Helen, the pianist gave birth to her beloved three heirs with short intermissions — and all without interruption from concerts, tours and work in the studio. Now Madame Bernard Arnault, who has remained Mercier in the world of music, continues to give concerts (an average of 20 concerts a year around the world). And when she is at home, she practices the piano for 4 hours a day, which extremely touches her husband. All three of her sons have also been playing music since the age of 5: two older ones play the phono, and the younger one plays the guitar. The family eats in the most ordinary restaurants: all Arno are not great lovers of table joys, and the head of the family, even in his best years, did not even get drunk on his own elite sparkling and cognacs. Best Family Leisure is an American TV series. Bernard is an attentive and caring father (since the early childhood of his sons, he has been allocated 2 hours a day to communicate with children, and during their school years he even personally studied mathematics with them on vacation). Therefore, Alexander, Frederic and Jean grew up as loving and respectful sons. The only one who breaks out of the «pastoral idyll» is her older sister Helen, a violinist diagnosed with bipolar disorder, who committed suicide under the influence of certain substances. The depression that covered the younger sister after that was helped to overcome, again, by the impeccable Bernard.
All family members play tennis and ride horses to keep fit and spirit. Even Arnaud's eldest daughter Delphine, who is now called nothing more than a «she-wolf in a cashmere coat» (after her father Arno put her in the chair of the president of the most fashionable of his most fashionable houses in January of this year), almost did not throw fuel on the fire of such sought-after gossip about a wealthy family. The capitalization of the fashion house after her appointment only jumped. Even the paparazzi despaired of finding Arno’s “strawberry”, only the regular Russian-speaking clients of the fashionable “bag” house do not give up: they have their own facts and arguments, intrigues and investigations, and they call Arno nothing more than “Natashka’s daddy husband”. They also have a short word about Arno on the other side of the moral barricades:
— Of course, everything is covered — this is the most expensive item of expenditure so that nothing comes up and gets out anywhere, — a long-term consumer of glamorous handbags broadcasts from Arno. — For this, Arno himself sponsors all the most yellow and most tabloid press. And it does work! Not a word about the fact that Natashkin's husband Antoine is a gambler, sits on poker worse than on a glass. And about his stormy romance with the director of the fashion department Vanity Fair Virginie Muzat, not a word. Delphine was married off nationwide in 2005, and the fact that she divorced her wine magnate just a few years later was only revealed to the nation when she was walking down the aisle with a new moneybag. No one discusses that her current (since 2011, Delfina has been living with the «technomillionaire» Xavier Niel, and in 2012 she gave birth to a daughter from him) has a history of conviction — 2 years probation for erotic cyber chats, from which his millions began.