Where are the Rothschild family now? From marrying Paris Hilton’s sister to environmental adventurer and heiress wife of a Tory MP
The Rothschild family are the most famous of all European banking dynasties, having influenced the political and economic history of the continent for some 200 years.
Rising to prominence in the 1700s, Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his five sons established banking branches in London, Paris, Naples and Vienna.
Following the announcement of the death of Lord Jacob Rothschild, aged 87, MailOnline takes a look back at what happened to the richest living members of the banking dynasty and where are they now.
Lord Rothschild – who had four children including the financier Nat Rothschild – started his career in the family bank in 1963 and founded Windmill Hill Asset Management to manage the family’s philanthropic portfolio.
He then went on to co-found the then J Rothschild Assurance Group, now St James’s Place, with Sir Mark Weinberg in 1980.
During his career, Lord Rothschild held roles such as deputy chairman at the then BSkyB Television and was also chairman of trustees at The National Gallery.
James Amschel Victor Rothschild
James Rothschild, 38, is the son of the late Amschel Rothschild and Anita Patience Guinness, of the Guinness family. His net worth is estimated to be around £1.5 billion.
He was born and raised in London and worked at the family company, Rothschild and Co, before branching out into real estate investment.
He is a founder and partner of Tru Arrow Partners, an investment firm for a global collective of business-owners and entrepreneurs.
James is married to Nicky Hilton, sister of socialite Paris Hilton, and together they have three children, two daughters and one son.
The couple met at Petra Ecclestone and James Stunt’s Italy wedding in 2011 and got engaged in 2014, before tying the knot in 2015 at The Orangery, Kensington Palace Gardens in London.
David Mayer de Rothschild
David Rothschild, 45, is the youngest of three children of Victoria Schott and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. He is estimated to have a net worth of around £8billion.
David is a British environmentalist, film producer and adventurer and is also an heir to the Rothschild fortune.
In 2006, he spent over 100 days crossing the Arctic from Russia to Canada and became one of only 42 people to ever reach the two geographical points.
He launched a website called Mission Control the same year, with the aim of inspiring children and young people with his expeditions and adventures.
In the late 2000s, David launched a mission to raise awareness of the Pacific Garbage Patch.
He invented a new form of sustainable ship called the Plastiki which was meant to reuse PET in a unique way.
The Plastiki set sail across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney and successfully completed its journey on 26 July 2010.
Alice Miranda Rothschild
Alice Rothschild is the second child of the late Amschel Mayor James de Rothschild and Anita Patience Guinness, of the Guinness family.
Alice married Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith in 2013 and together they have a nine-year-old daughter Dolly, a son Max and daughter Edie.
Her relationship with Mr Goldsmith started in 2006. At the time she was Lord Goldsmith’s sister-in-law, while his brother Ben was married to Alice’s sister Kate.
Kate and Ben split in 2012 after Kate allegedly had an affair with American rapper Jay Electronica.
Olivia de Rothschild
Student heiress Olivia de Rothschild has been tipped to play a major part in the family business.
She is the daughter of the late thrill-seeking banker Benjamin de Rothschild, who died in 2021 aged 57, and his wife Ariane.
Olivia, studying at Madrid’s IE Business School, was just 19 when said to be attending a number of meetings in 2022 at House of Caron, a luxury perfume brand bought by her mother four years earlier.
The budding businesswoman was there to ‘learn the trade’ ahead of launching her own perfume, Musc Oli, inspired by her nickname.
She has also designed a bottle for the company’s Aimez-Moi Comme Je Suis fragrance.
Ariane de Rothschild
Olivia’s mother Ariane married into the Rothschild banking dynasty when she wed Benjamin in January 1999 and has been credited with furthering its success.
Benjamin – heir to a $2.5billion fortune – died of a heart attack at the couple’s Château de Pregny home on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in January 2021.
Ariane had met him in Manhattan in the 1990s and was wooed with a dozen red roses sent to her trader desk.
The baroness later became heavily involved in the bank left to her husband’s control when he was just 34.
Ariane, who was born Ariane Langner, previously enjoyed a global childhood in El Salvador, Bangladesh and Colombia thanks to her father’s job as a senior executive at an international pharmaceutical company.
Meanwhile, the Edmond de Rothschild Group was founded in 1953 by Edmond de Rothschild, Benjamin’s influential father.
Based in Geneva, the group started out as a financial institution specialising in private banking and asset management before encompassing the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, the lifestyle brand Edmond de Rothschild Heritage – including fine wine and cheese, luxury hotels and restaurants.
It has also sponsored the Gitana Team, a professional sailing team.
