French billionaire Bernard Arnault has one daughter, Delphine, and four sons, Antoine, Alexandre, Frédéric and Jean Chesnot/Getty All five of ’s children have joined the family business. and head of luxury goods conglomerate LVMH is one of the richest people in the world with a net worth of around $200 billion, according to . His children, Delphine, Antoine, Alexandre, Frédéric and Jean, have become part of his massive business which he cofounded in the 1980s.
LVMH now claims dozens of luxury brands, including Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co., TAG Heuer and Givenchy. In 1973, Bernard married his first wife, Anne Dewavrin, and they share two children together, Delphine and Antoine.
A year after their divorce, the businessman married his second wife, concert pianist Hélène Mercier. They welcomed their first son together, Alexandre, in the early 1990s. The couple went on to have two more sons, Frédéric and Jean.
Related: During an interview with in September 2023, Bernard said that it’s “not an obligation, nor inevitable” that one of his children will take over as the head of LVMH. “The best person inside the family or outside the family should be one day my successor,” he added. “But it’s not something that I hope is a duel for the near future.
” Bernards youngest, Jean, has shared that while the siblings do discuss the future of LVMH, “at the end, it’s he [Bernard] who decides.” Though the family has been compared to the ficti.