Julio Mario Santo Domingo

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Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo (born October 16, 1923 in Panama City , Panamá , † October 7, 2011 in New York City ) was a Colombian businessman , diplomat and patriarch of the wealthy Santo Domingo family. He managed more than 100 companies in a diversified portfolio of the Grupo Santo Domingo . He founded a philanthropic foundation, named after his father, which promotes the social development of Colombia through charity.

Life

His father was a Colombian banker and his mother was Beatriz Pumarejo de Vengoechea, cousin of Colombian President Alfonso López Pumarejo . He spent his childhood in Barranquilla and he studied at the University of Virginia . Domingo followed his father in 1972 in the management of the Grupo Santo Domingo . The group is now controlled by the company Valorem (including Caracol TV , El Espectador , Bavaria) , which also handles most of the investments of the Santo Domino clans.

As the successor to Julio César Turbay Ayala, Domingo was Colombian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from February 27, 1981 to March 18, 1983. Julio Mario Santo Domingo was ranked one of the richest men in the world and the second richest in Colombia in 2011 by Forbes magazine , with a net worth of $ 8 billion. He was a close friend of the Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez .

Private

Domingo was married to the Brazilian model of society Edyala Braga Brandão do Monte and his second marriage to the Colombian Beatrice Dávila Rocha (1975-2011). The entrepreneur Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga (1958-2009) came from the first marriage and the sons Alejandro Santo Domingo Dávila (* 1977) and Andrés Santo Domingo Dávila (* 1978) emerged from the second marriage . A grandchild Tatiana Santo Domingo, the daughter of Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga, married Andrea Casiraghi in 2013 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julio Mario Santo Domingo (1923-2011) . cromos.elespectador.com of October 8, 2011 (es)
  2. ↑ Profile on forbes.com, accessed March 30, 2017 (en)
  3. ↑ Billion heiress, fashion fan and Monaco's new star . stern.de, August 30, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Santo Domingo, Julio Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Panama City , Panamá
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2011
Place of death New York City