Helmut Horten Cause Of Death: What Happened To Heidi Horten’s First Husband?

Helmut Horten was Heidi Horten’s husband. Helmut Horten was born on January 8, 1909, in Bonn, Kingdom of Prussia. His father was a judge.

Horten met Heidi Jelinek, a 19-year-old Austrian 32 years his younger, in a hotel bar in Velden am Wörthersee in 1960. The pair married in Düsseldorf-Lohausen on July 23, 1966, and moved to Croglio in the Swiss canton of Ticino at the end of 1968.

Helmet passed away in November 1987. There is no information available concerning his demise.

Heidi inherited his $1 billion wealth and divided her time between Croglio, Lyford Cay, Austria’s Wörthersee, and a condominium in Vienna.

Forbes listed her as one of the world’s 500 wealthiest people, and she also commissioned and owned one of the world’s largest yachts, the Carinthia VII.

Horten amassed a 500-piece art collection that included works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz, and Yves Klein. In 2018, 170 paintings from the Heidi Horten Collection were on display at Vienna’s Leopold Museum