Marie-Jeanne Meyer | |
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Born |
Marie-Jeanne Louis Dreyfus 1942 (age 74–75) |
Citizenship | French |
Known for | minority shareholder of Louis Dreyfus Group |
Net worth | US$ 1.7 billion (August 2014) |
Spouse(s) | Philippe Meyer |
Children | three |
Parent(s) | Jeanne Madeline Depierre Jean Louis-Dreyfus |
Relatives |
Robert Louis-Dreyfus (brother) Monique Roosmale Nepveu (sister) |
Marie-Jeanne Meyer (born 1942) is a French billionaire and member of the Louis Dreyfus family.
Born Marie-Jeanne Louis-Dreyfus, she was one of three children born to Jean and Jeanne Madeline (née Depierre) Louis-Dreyfus. Her brother is Robert Louis-Dreyfus and her sister is Monique Roosmale Nepveu. Her father was Jewish and her mother Roman Catholic. She is the great granddaughter of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of the Louis-Dreyfus Group, which had begun buying and selling wheat in the Alsace region a century earlier, and rapidly diversified into shipping, oil and other commodities. Her grandfather was Louis Louis-Dreyfus who served in the French Parliament during the French Third Republic. After the death of her brother Robert, his widow and second wife Margarita Louis-Dreyfus (b: Rita Bogdanova), inherited 60% of the Louis Dreyfus Group (later increased to 65% in 2012). As of 2013, Marie-Jeanne owned 12.5% of the Louis Dreyfus Group making her a billionaire. In 2009, she founded the venture capital company Florac SAS.
She is married to Philippe Meyer. They have three children.
Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus is her cousin.