Jemima Goldsmith

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Jemima Goldsmith (2018)

Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith (born January 30, 1974 in London ), from 1995 to 2014 Jemima Khan , is a British journalist and film and television producer.

Life

Jemima Goldsmith comes from the old German-Jewish banking family Goldschmidt from Frankfurt am Main , her grandfather Frank Goldsmith emigrated to London at the end of the 19th century. She is the daughter of billionaire Sir James Goldsmith (1933–1997) and Lady Annabel Goldsmith (* 1934; née Vane-Tempest-Stewart, daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry and namesake of the exclusive London nightclub Annabel’s ). She has two younger brothers: Benjamin Goldsmith and Zac Goldsmith , a Conservative Party politician . She also has eight half-siblings from other marriages of her parents, including designer India Jane Birley .

She grew up in London. After graduating from high school, she studied English at the University of Bristol when she met the famous Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan in 1993 and married in Paris in 1995. She converted to the Islamic faith (previously she was “technically” Anglican , but grew up with Jewish traditions), went to Pakistan with her husband and took Pakistani citizenship alongside her British citizenship. The two have two sons. She founded a tomato ketchup brand under her own name in Pakistan and a fashion label that no longer existed in 2001. Her guest commentary in the Guardian in 2000 , in which she wrote about "the rule of the rich American Jews", sparked controversy . These would control the local media and Hollywood and occupy more than half of the most important functions in the Clinton administration. With reference to her many Jewish friends as well as her Jewish paternal grandparents, she rejected allegations of anti-Semitism .

She has been a UNICEF ambassador since 2001 . She also supports several charities, mainly in Pakistan , including the Soil Association , the Quilliam Foundation and the Jemima Khan Afghan Refugee Appeal . In 2002 she finished her English studies, which she had broken off after marriage in 1995, with a bachelor's degree. In 2003, she took up a master's degree in the Faculty of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, which she completed with a thesis on Islam. In June 2004, Jemima and Imran Khan divorced.

Jemima Khan, along with John Pilger and Ken Loach, was one of the six bail men for Julian Assange , who was arrested on December 7, 2010 in London and who was granted relief on December 14, 2010 on the basis of this bail. In June 2011 she was appointed associate editor of the daily newspaper The Independent ; a few months later she moved to the left-wing liberal weekly New Statesman , where she took on the same position. She was also editor-at-large for Vanity Fair magazine . Khan acted as (co-) producer of the documentaries We Steal Secrets: The WikiLeaks Story by Alex Gibney as well as Unmanned: America's Drone Wars (2013) and Making A Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA (2016) by Robert Greenwald . In 2015 she founded the television production company Instinct Productions together with Henrietta Conrad .

From 2004 to 2007, Jemima Khan was in a relationship with British actor Hugh Grant . From September 2013 to September 2014, she was in a relationship with comedian Russell Brand . At the end of 2014 she again took her maiden name Goldsmith.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ben Summerskill: Daddy's girl. In: The Observer , August 12, 2001.
  2. ↑ Charlotte Edwardes: Jemima Khan: I am not an anti-Semite. In: The Telegraph , November 12, 2000.
  3. ^ "I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy." Interview with Sairah Irshad Khan. In: Newsline , November 2002.
  4. ↑ Helga Embacher, Bernadette Edtmaier, Alexandra Preitschopf: Anti-Semitism in Europe. Case studies of a global phenomenon in the 21st century. Böhlau, Vienna 2019, p. 141
  5. ↑ Jemima and Imran Khan finalize divorce. In: The Telegraph , June 22, 2004.
  6. ↑ Julian Assange refused bail over rape allegations . In: The Guardian , December 7, 2010. 
  7. ^ Mark Sweney: Jemima Khan made associate editor of Independent and i. In: The Guardian , June 8, 2011.
  8. ^ Roy Greenslade: Jemima Khan quits Independent for New Statesman. In: The Guardian , October 17, 2011.
  9. ↑ Bunte.de : Russell Brand & Jemima Khan - Yes, it's love! September 25, 2014.
  10. ↑ Usman Khan: Jemima Goldsmith officially changes surname 'Khan' on Twitter. In: The News Tribe , January 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Goldsmith, Jemima
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goldsmith, Jemima Marcelle (maiden name); Khan, Jemima
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and film and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK