Nationality Turkish Name Matild Manukyan Children Kerope Cilingir | Role Businesswoman | |
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Resting place Armenian Cemetery of Sisli Died February 17, 2001, Istanbul, Turkey | ||
Ayşe Arman, Genelev Patroniçesi Matild Manukyan’ın Öyküsünü Anlatıyor | 32.Gün Arşiv
Genelevlerin Patroniçesi Matild Manukyan Aslında Kimdi?
Matild Manukyan (1914 - February 17, 2001) was a wealthy Turkish businesswoman of Armenian descent. She was a real property investor that later made a fortune in brothel business.
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- Aye Arman Genelev Patroniesi Matild Manukyann yksn Anlatyor 32Gn Ariv
- Genelevlerin Patroniesi Matild Manukyan Aslnda Kimdi
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Biography
She was born in 1914 to an aristocratic Armenian family in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. After finishing the French language-high school Lycee Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul, she opened an haute couture atelier for Istanbul's socialites. Soon, she lost her husband and had to live alone with her son.
Manukyan leased the buildings she inherited from her father in the red-light district of Karakoy neighbourhood in Istanbul to brothel owners. In the following years, she became the owner of 14 licensed brothels. She was once accused of employing underage prostitutes.
She invested her opulent earnings from the sex business into real property. Manukyan was the top taxpayer in Istanbul for five consecutive years during the 1990s and received an award for that by the revenue authority. She displayed her collection of certificates and recognition items she received from the authorities in her home in Sisli that she called the "M&M Museum".
In an interview, she revealed that she owns around 70 business centers and 500 apartments in Istanbul, 200 in Yalova, three five-star hotels in Antalya and Alanya, 10 villas in Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus and a factory in Istanbul in the export business. She also noted that she was building a hotel in Germany with 100 beds. She also ran a fleet of around 220 taxis. Luxury items owned by Manukyan included a Rolls-Royce car, four top model Mercedes and BMW cars, and an 18 m yacht in the Kalamis Marina in Istanbul.
Manukyan died on February 17, 2001 in Istanbul, and was buried in the Armenian Cemetery of Sisli following the funeral at the Uc Horon Armenian Church in Beyoglu. Her only heir is her son Kerope Cilingir, who grew up in the United States.