Heidi Horten married Jean-Marc Charmat after her first husband, Helmut Horten, died in November 1987. They married in 1994 and divorced in 1998. It’s unclear whether Jean-Marc Charmat is still alive or not.
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Heidi Horten was a billionaire and art collector from Austria. Horten inherited her fortune after her husband, the founder of the German department store chain Horten AG, died.
Horten served on the board of the Helmut Horten Stiftung, a nonprofit foundation that supports various healthcare facilities, funds medical research and assists those in need.
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Horten loved hunting and art collecting and owned the 315-foot yacht Carinthia VII. In 2008, Horten sold the 35.56 carat Wittelsbach Diamond, which was previously part of the Crown Jewels of Bavaria, for $24 million.
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.
According to documents released in August 2019 Horten gave over a million Euros to the Austrian People’s Party between 2018 and 2019,
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