Who was Carl Icahn’s first wife?

Liba Trejbal is the fist wife of Carl Celian Icahn, an American financier, founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a public company and diversified conglomerate holding company based in Sunny Isles Beach.

Icahn takes large stakes in companies that he believes will appreciate via changes to corporate policy. He then pressures management to make changes that he believes will benefit shareholders.

He was one of the first activist shareholders and is credited with making that investment strategy mainstream for hedge funds.

For his personal life, Icahn has been married twice and currently resides with his second wife Gail Icahn (born Gail Golden) whom he married in 1999 following his divorce from his first wife, Liba Trejbal.

Who was Carl Icahn’s first wife?

Liba Trejbal was Carl Icahn’s first wife.

Icahn met her in the summer of 1978 and at the time, Icahn was 41-years old, while she was 28-years old.

At the time, Liba was a ballerina and she hails from the former Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia).

Liba became pregnant 8 months after they met and Icahn offered to marry her on one condition; that she signs a prenuptial agreement.

She signed the agreement and they got married in March 1979.

However, some 14 years later, thus in October 1993, Liba filed for divorce and sued to invalidate the prenuptial agreement, claiming she signed it under duress due to the pregnancy.

The divorce was settled in July 1999.

Liba and Icahn share two children, Brett Icahn and Michelle Celia Icahn Nevin.