Walid Juffali

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Walid Ahmed Juffali ( Arabic وليد أحمد الجفالي, DMG Walīd Aḥmad al-Ǧuffālī ; * April 30, 1955 in Saudi Arabia ; † July 20, 2016 in Zurich , Switzerland ) was a Saudi Arabian entrepreneur .

Life

Walid Juffali was the son of the Saudi Arabian entrepreneur Ahmed Juffali . His siblings are the entrepreneur Khaled Juffali and his sister Maha Juffali. His brother Tarek Juffali died in London in 2008. Juffai attended the Swiss boarding school Le Rosey . Juffali studied at the University of San Diego and Imperial College London . He ran EA Juffali and Brothers , which his father took over and which grew into one of the largest private corporations in Saudi Arabia. He was also chairman of the Saudi Arabian bank Samba Financial Group , vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce of Jeddah and honorary consul general of Denmark. As a diplomat from the island state of Saint Lucia , he enjoyed diplomatic immunity in England.

From 1980 to 2000 he was married to Basma Al-Sulaiman, with whom he has three children. From 2001 to 2012 he was married to the British model Christina Estrada , with whom he has one child, and since 2012 he was married to the Lebanese model Loujain Adada, with whom he has two children. Basma Al-Sulaiman's divorce attracted attention in the UK media in 2004 due to the high cost of the divorce. His international guests in Jeddah included Margaret Thatcher , John Major and US President George Bush, Senior . On July 20, 2016, he died in Zurich of complications from cancer.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saudi billionaire's son living in Britain died from drug overdose weeks before his wife had twins. In: Daily Mail . July 16, 2008.
  2. ↑ Eajb.com
  3. ↑ MBC Signs Walid Juffali to Front - New Entrepreneurial Reality Show, "The Investor" on albawaba.com, December 11, 2005
  4. ↑ a b c David Blair: Saudi billionaire gains legal immunity in Britain with career as Caribbean diplomat. In: The Telegraph . November 9, 2015
  5. ↑ a b Richard Kay: The beauty who cost lover pounds 40m. In: Daily Mail . January 23, 2004.
  6. ^ Walid Juffali, Saudi businessman - obituary. In: The Telegraph . 15th November 2015
personal data
SURNAME Juffali, Walid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juffali, Walid Ahmed (full name); وليد أحمد الجفالي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saudi Arabian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Saudi Arabia
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 2016
Place of death Zurich , Switzerland