Édouard-Jean Empain

Male, Person

1937 –

90

Who is Édouard-Jean Empain?

Édouard-Jean, 3rd Baron Empain, is a French-Belgian industrialist, best known by the general public for his kidnapping in 1978.

Between 1969 and 1981, Baron Empain was CEO of the Schneider group. The Baron is the son of Jean, 2nd Baron Empain, and the grandson of Édouard Louis Joseph, 1st Baron Empain. He married the Italian Silvana Betuzzi in 1957 by whom he has two daughters and a son, they were divorced shortly after Empain's kidnapping and Empain subsequently remarried. He lives in the suburbs of Paris with his second wife Jacqueline, a former model, whom he married in 1990.

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Born
1937
France
Also known as
  • Edouard-Jean Empain
Nationality
  • France
  • Belgium

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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