Billionaire John Paulson, 68, is engaged to 35-year-old Alina de Almeida… while still embroiled in bitter divorce battle
Billionaire John Paulson is officially off the market and gets engaged to his girlfriend Alina de Almeida.
The 68-year-old – who made headlines in late March for hosting a Trump fundraiser – got engaged to his 35-year-old girlfriend.
The engagement comes as Paulson remains embroiled in a divorce battle with his ex Jenny Zaharia, whom he was married to between 2001 and 2021.
Paulson left Zaharia for the much younger dietitian in 2021, a source said Page six they are very happy together.
‘John and Alina have been together for two and a half years. They are very happy together and are engaged,” the source said.
Billionaire John Paulson is officially off the market and gets engaged to his girlfriend Alina de Almeida
The 68-year-old – who made headlines in late March for hosting a Trump fundraiser – got engaged to his 35-year-old girlfriend
Although she was mentioned in a recent Bloomberg interview as the financier’s fiancée, it is unclear whether there is a ring yet.
“The word ‘fiance’ has been said,” a source added, referring to their conversations with friends, “but I don’t think anyone saw a ring.”
“He’s trying to be discreet so as not to send Jenny into a full-blown rage,” the source added, though it’s unclear when a ring will appear.
Paulson – who is worth a whopping $4.7 billion – is still embroiled in a bitter battle with his ex Zaharia.
Lawyers for the scorned wife of hedge fund magnate John Paulson have hit back at his claims that she is “greedy” – saying his alleged siphoning of money into secret trusts is the “ultimate example of spousal abuse”.
Billionaire Paulson filed for divorce from his soon-to-be ex-wife Jenny, 52, in 2021, leading to her claiming he had stashed at least $1 billion in secret trusts, according to legal documents seen by DailyMail.com.
The 67-year-old’s legal team say in documents she is acting out of ‘greed’, and if the trusts are split as she demands, the assets would attract ‘huge’ sums in taxes – resulting in their two daughters Giselle, 18 , and Danielle, 20, who receives a “diluted” inheritance.
But Jenny’s lawyers have hit back, telling DailyMail.com that he “knows he’s being greedy” after filing a new claim accusing her husband of making a “sham purchase” of a luxury penthouse in Puerto Rico to “improperly protect himself” enrich’ with $10 million. at the expense of the trusts.
Although she was mentioned as the financier’s fiancée in a recent Bloomberg interview, it’s unclear if there’s a ring yet
“The word ‘fiance’ has been said,” a source added, referring to their conversations with friends, “but I don’t think anyone saw a ring.”
“Imagine the audacity of a man who we allege secretly steals marital assets from his wife for years before initiating divorce proceedings,” said Robert Cohen, attorney for Jenny, of Cohen Clair Lans Greifer & Simpson LLP.
He then secretly withdraws money from the Trust he secretly created for his personal purposes to purchase a $20 million apartment. But he bought it for just $5 million and apparently hasn’t completed the sale yet.
“And then he publicly accuses her of being ‘greedy.’ It’s fair to say, that’s what’s called ‘chutzpah.’
Legal documents filed on September 21 state that Paulson purchased the St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort condo in 2020 for an artificially low price of $5.6 million from a 2009 family trust that owned the property.