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Cause of death  prostate cancer
Parents  Daniel Wildenstein
Role  Art dealer

Name  Alec Wildenstein
Religion  Judaism
Siblings  Guy Wildenstein
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Full Name  Alec Nathan Wildenstein
Born  August 5, 1940 (age 67) Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, France
Occupation  Art dealer, racehorse owner and breeder
Children  Diane WildensteinAlec Wildenstein, Jr.
Relatives  Guy Wildenstein (brother)
Spouse  Jocelyn Wildenstein (m. 1978–1999)
Grandparents  Georges Wildenstein, Jane Wildenstein
Similar People  Jocelyn Wildenstein, Daniel Wildenstein, Guy Wildenstein, Amanda Lepore, Harold Hamm
Died  February 18, 2008 (aged 67) Paris, France

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Alec Nathan Wildenstein (August 5, 1940 – February 18, 2008) was a French-born American billionaire businessman, art dealer, racehorse owner, and breeder.

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Biography

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Born in Marseille, Wildenstein was raised in New York City where his family owned and operated an art gallery. In 1875, his great-grandfather founded a business dealing in art. His father, Daniel Wildenstein, was a distinguished scholar of impressionism whose career and dominant personality overshadowed his son's achievements. Daniel Wildenstein did not think a university education was necessary for his two sons to work in the family business. Daniel Wildenstein had a passion for racehorses, which his son shared.

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Upon his father's death in 2001, Alec Wildenstein inherited half of a business empire estimated at $10 billion USD and included what was believed to be the world's largest private collection of major works of art.

Horse racing

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Alec Wildenstein enjoyed thoroughbreds for flat and steeplechase and standardbreds for harness racing. His Ecurie Wildenstein racing stable hired Elie Lellouche and Dominique Sepulchre to train his flat horses, and Jean-Paul Gallorini and Marcel Rolland for his steeplechase runners. Wildenstein raced a number of successful horses including:

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  • Bright Sky – won the Prix de Diane, Prix de l'Opéra
  • Aquarelliste – won Prix Vermeille, Prix de Diane, Prix Ganay
  • Westerner – won Ascot Gold Cup, Prix du Cadran, Prix Royal-Oak, 2004 & 2005 European Champion Stayer
  • Vallée Enchantée – won the Hong Kong Vase
  • In 2004, Wildenstein's steeplechase runner, Kotkijet, owned in partnership with Jean-Pierre Dubois, won his second Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris.

    Personal life

    In 1977, his family purchased a 49% stake for Wildenstein in the first 66,000-acre (270 km2) Ol Jogi Ranch on the Laikipia District in Kenya. In 1985, the family acquired complete ownership. He met Jocelyne Périsset when she was a guest at Ol Jogi Ranch and they were married on April 30, 1978. They had a daughter, Diane, followed by a son, Alec. Jr. Their divorce proceedings between 1997 and 1999 gained wide media coverage for revelations about the couple's extravagant spending habits and Jocelyn Wildenstein's fondness for plastic surgery. Wildenstein died at age 67 in 2008 of prostate cancer. He is survived by his two children and his second wife, Liouba Stoupakova, a native of Russia whom he married in 2000.

    References

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