Gustavo Alfredo Jiménez de Cisneros y Rendiles, a Venezuelan businessman and Chairman of Grupo Cisneros, passed away on December 29, 2023, at the age of 78 123.
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Cisneros was one of the wealthiest men in the world, with a net worth of $1.1 billion according to Forbes magazine in 2019. Gustavo Alfredo Jiménez de Cisneros y Rendiles was a Venezuelan billionaire businessman and Chairman of Grupo Cisneros.
Gustavo Cisneros was born on November 20, 1945, in Caracas, Venezuela. Gustavo Cisneros graduated from Suffield Academy in Connecticut in 1963 and Babson College in Massachusetts in 1968.
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Gustavo Cisneros supported two philanthropic entities: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Fundación Cisneros. Aside from his Venezuelan citizenship, Cisneros also held United States, Spanish, and Dominican citizenship.
Gustavo Cisneros lived in the Dominican Republic beginning in the 1990s. Gustavo Cisneros became President of Grupo Cisneros, one of the world’s largest privately held media entertainment organizations when he was 25.
Gustavo Cisneros owned Venevision International, which produces and distributes media and entertainment products worldwide, and Venevisión, a Venezuelan television network.
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