Name Andronico Abaroa | ||
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Died August 18, 2005 (2005-08-19) (aged 78) Children Andronico Luksic CraigGuillermo Luksic CraigPaola Luksic FontbonaGabriela Luksic FontbonaJean-Paul Luksic Fontbona | ||
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Antonio Andrónico Luksic Abaroa (Croatian: Androniko Lukšić) (November 5, 1926 – August 18, 2005) was a Chilean businessman of Croatian origin. Through his lifetime, he found the Luksic Group, becoming the richest person in Chile, the fourth in Latin America, and the 132nd in the world, with a net worth in 2005 of US$4.2 billion according to Forbes magazine.
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The Luksic Group has interests in the mining, financial, industrial, and beverages sectors. Major holdings include, or have included, Banco de Chile, Compañia de Cervecerias Unidas (CCU), and Antofagasta Plc, a UK-listed copper mining company. In Croatia, he was involved in the tourist industry.
On September 2002, the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio published an interview with Andrónico Luksic titled "Don Andrónico cuenta su historia" (Don Andrónico shares his story), in which he explains how, after a life of hard work, he had decided to retire and "dedicate himself to what he liked the most: his family, his beloved Croatia and social assistance".
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Family
Luksic was born in Antofagasta, to a Bolivian mother, Elena Abaroa (great-grandchild of Bolivian War of the Pacific hero Eduardo Abaroa), and a Croatian immigrant father, Policarpo, who had arrived in Chile from the Adriatic island of Brač in 1910 and had made a living in the nitrate industry.
Luksic married Ena Craig and they had two sons: Andrónico (born April 16, 1954) and Guillermo (born January 14, 1956). Luksic was widowed when Ena died in 1959. He married Iris Fontbona in 1961, when she was 18 years old. They had two daughters: Paola (born 1961/1962) and Gabriela (born 1962/1963), and one son: Jean-Paul (born May 31, 1964.)
Luksic died of cancer on August 18, 2005. As of 2011, Iris Fontbona and her family had a net worth of US$19.2 billion.
As of October 2012 the Bloomberg Billionaires Index lists Iris Fontbona as the 33rd richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of 19.7 billion.