Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken
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Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken (born 1954 in the Netherlands) is the owner of a controlling interest in the world's third-largest brewer, Heineken International.
She is the daughter of Freddy Heineken, the Dutch industrialist, and Lucille Cummins, an American from a Kentucky family of bourbon whiskey distillers.
Charlene Heineken studied law at the University of Leiden. She married Michel de Carvalho, a stockbroker, graduate of Harvard University, former film actor, and former Olympic skier she met on a ski holiday in St. Moritz, Switzerland. They reside in London, England with their five children.
Upon the death of her father in 2002, she inherited a fortune estimated at three billion British pounds, making her the richest woman in the Netherlands. She sits on the board of management of Heineken, and her husband is a member of the supervisory board.
