Where are the Rothschild family now? From marrying Paris Hilton’s sister to environmental adventurer and heiress wife of a Tory MP – a look at the richest living members of banking dynasty
The Rothschild family is the most famous of all European banking dynasties, influencing the continent’s political and economic history for some 200 years.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his five sons rose to prominence in the 18th century, establishing bank branches in London, Paris, Naples and Vienna.
Following the announcement of the death of Lord Jacob Rothschild, aged 87, MailOnline looks back at what happened to the richest living members of the banking dynasty and where they are now.
Lord Rothschild – who had four children, including the financier Nat Rothschild – began his career at the family bank in 1963, setting up Windmill Hill Asset Management to manage the family’s philanthropic portfolio.
He then founded the then J Rothschild Assurance Group, now St James’s Place, with Sir Mark Weinberg in 1980.
During his career, Lord Rothschild held positions as deputy chairman at the then BSkyB Television and was also chairman of trustees at The National Gallery.
Lord Jacob Rothschild has died at the age of 87, it was announced today
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 at around £1.5 billion.
He was born and raised in London and worked at the family business Rothschild and Co before turning to property investing.
He is the 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, the sister of socialite Paris Hilton, and together they have three children, two daughters and a son.
The couple met at Petra Ecclestone and James Stunt’s Italian wedding in 2011 and became engaged in 2014, before tying the knot in 2015 at The Orangery, Kensington Palace Gardens in London.
Nicky Hilton Rothschild and James Rothschild, pictured here at the God’s Love We Deliver Golden Heart Awards in New York in October 2022, married in London in 2015
David Mayer de Rothschild
David Rothschild, 45, is the youngest of three children of Victoria Schott and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. It is estimated that he has a net worth of around £8 billion.
David is a British environmentalist, film producer and adventurer as well as heir to the Rothschild fortune.
In 2006, he crossed the North Pole from Russia to Canada over 100 days, becoming one of only 42 people to ever reach the two geographic points.
That same year he launched a website called Mission Control, aiming to inspire children and young people with his expeditions and adventures.
In the late 2000s, David launched a mission to raise awareness about the Pacific Garbage Patch.
He invented a new form of sustainable ship, the Plastiki, which was intended to reuse PET in a unique way.
The Plastiki set sail across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney, successfully completing its journey on July 26, 2010.
David Mayer de Rothschild, seen at United Nations headquarters in New York in June 2015, is estimated to have a net worth of around £8 billion
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 a daughter Edie.
Her relationship with Mr Goldsmith began 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.
Former Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith, now a member of the House of Lords, and Alice Rothschild married in 2013 – the couple are pictured at London’s V&A Museum in June 2022
Olivia de Rothschild
Student heiress Olivia de Rothschild has been tipped to play an important role in the family business.
She is the daughter of the late sensation-seeking banker Benjamin de Rothschild, who died in 2021 at the age of 57, and his wife Ariane.
Olivia, who studies at IE Business School in Madrid, was just 19 when she reportedly attended a series of meetings in 2022 at House of Caron, a luxury perfume brand her mother had bought four years earlier.
The aspiring businesswoman was there to ‘learn the trade’ before launching her own perfume, Musc Oli, inspired by her nickname.
She also designed a bottle for the company’s Aimez-Moi Comme Je Suis fragrance.
Family business: Olivia de Rothschild, 19, left, daughter of the late banker Benjamin de Rothschild and his wife Ariane, has shown great interest in one of the family businesses
Ariane de Rothschild
Olivia’s mother, Ariane, married into the Rothschild banking dynasty when she married Benjamin in January 1999 and is credited with fostering its success.
Benjamin – heir to a $2.5 billion fortune – died of a heart attack in January 2021 at the couple’s Château de Pregny home on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
Ariane had met him in Manhattan in the 1990s and was seduced with a dozen red roses sent to her trading desk.
The Baroness later became deeply involved in the bank which was left to her husband’s control when he was just 34.
Born Ariane Langner, Ariane 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 as a financial institution specializing in private banking and asset management before encompassing the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations and 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.
Ariane de Rothschild has embraced the high society shindigs that come with the family surname – pictured here at the Azzedine Alaia Perfum Launch Party in Paris in 2015