Where are the Rothschild family now? From marrying Paris Hilton's sister to environmental adventurer and heiress wife of a Tory MP - a look at the richest living members of banking dynasty

New Discovery After Jacob Rothschild's Death Changes Everything

By MEGAN HOWE

December 1, 2024

The Rothschild family are the most famous of all European banking dynasties, having influenced the political and economic history of the continent for some 200 years.

Rising to prominence in the 1700s, Mayer Amschel Rothschild and his five sons established banking branches in London, Paris, Naples and Vienna.

Following the announcement of the death of Lord Jacob Rothschild, aged 87, MailOnline takes a look back at what happened to the richest living members of the banking dynasty and where are they now.

Lord Rothschild - who had four children including the financier Nat Rothschild - started his career in the family bank in 1963 and founded Windmill Hill Asset Management to manage the family's philanthropic portfolio.

He then went on to co-found the then J Rothschild Assurance Group, now St James's Place, with Sir Mark Weinberg in 1980.

During his career, Lord Rothschild held roles such as deputy chairman at the then BSkyB Television and was also chairman of trustees at The National Gallery.

Lord Jacob Rothschild has died at the age of 87

James Amschel Victor Rothschild - £1.5 billion

James Rothschild, 38, is the son of the late Amschel Rothschild and Anita Patience Guinness, of the Guinness family. His net worth is estimated to be around £1.5 billion.

He was born and raised in London and worked at the family company, Rothschild and Co, before branching out into real estate investment.

He is a founder and partner of Tru Arrow Partners, an investment firm for a global collective of business owners and entrepreneurs.

James is married to Nicky Hilton, sister of socialite Paris Hilton, and together they have three children, two daughters and one son.

The couple met at Petra Ecclestone and James Stunt's Italy wedding in 2011 and got engaged in 2014, before tying the knot in 2015 at The Orangery, Kensington Palace Gardens in London.

Nicky Hilton Rothschild and James Rothschild, pictured here at the God's Love We Deliver Golden Heart Awards in New York in October 2022, married in London in 2015

David Mayer de Rothschild

David Rothschild, 45, is the youngest of three children of Victoria Schott and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. He is estimated to have a net worth of around £8billion.

David is a British environmentalist, film producer and adventurer and is also an heir to the Rothschild fortune.

In 2006, he spent over 100 days crossing the Arctic from Russia to Canada and became one of only 42 people to ever reach the two geographical points.

He launched a website called Mission Control the same year, with the aim of inspiring children and young people with his expeditions and adventures.

In the late 2000s, David launched a mission to raise awareness of the Pacific Garbage Patch.

He invented a new form of sustainable ship called the Plastiki which was meant to reuse PET in a unique way.

The Plastiki set sail across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney and successfully completed its journey on 26 July 2010.

David Mayer de Rothschild, seen at the United Nations HQ in New York in June 2015, is estimated to have a net worth of about £8billion

Alice Miranda Rothschild

Alice Rothschild is the second child of the late Amschel Mayor James de Rothschild and Anita Patience Guinness, of the Guinness family.

Alice married Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith in 2013 and together they have a nine-year-old daughter Dolly, a son Max and daughter Edie.

Her relationship with Mr Goldsmith started in 2006. At the time she was Lord Goldsmith's sister-in-law, while his brother Ben was married to Alice's sister Kate.

Kate and Ben split in 2012 after Kate allegedly had an affair with American rapper Jay Electronica.

Former Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith, now a member of the House of Lords, and Alice Rothschild wed in 2013 - the couple are pictured at London's V&A Museum in June 2022

Olivia de Rothschild

Student heiress Olivia de Rothschild has been tipped to play a major part in the family business.

She is the daughter of the late thrill-seeking banker Benjamin de Rothschild, who died in 2021 aged 57, and his wife Ariane.

Olivia, studying at Madrid's IE Business School, was just 19 when said to be attending a number of meetings in 2022 at House of Caron, a luxury perfume brand bought by her mother four years earlier.

The budding businesswoman was there to 'learn the trade' ahead of launching her own perfume, Musc Oli, inspired by her nickname.

She has also designed a bottle for the company's Aimez-Moi Comme Je Suis fragrance.

Ariane de Rothschild

Olivia's mother Ariane married into the Rothschild banking dynasty when she wed Benjamin in January 1999 and has been credited with furthering its success.

Benjamin - heir to a $2.5billion fortune - died of a heart attack at the couple's Château de Pregny home on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in January 2021.

Ariane had met him in Manhattan in the 1990s and was wooed with a dozen red roses sent to her trader desk.

The baroness later became heavily involved in the bank left to her husband's control when he was just 34.

Ariane, who was born Ariane Langner, previously enjoyed a global childhood in El Salvador, Bangladesh and Colombia thanks to her father's job as a senior executive at an international pharmaceutical company.

Meanwhile, the Edmond de Rothschild Group was founded in 1953 by Edmond de Rothschild, Benjamin's influential father.

Based in Geneva, the group started out as a financial institution specialising in private banking and asset management before encompassing the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, the lifestyle brand Edmond de Rothschild Heritage - including fine wine and cheese, luxury hotels and restaurants.

It has also sponsored the Gitana Team, a professional sailing team.

Ariane de Rothschild has embraced the high society shindigs that come with the family's surname - pictured here at the Azzedine Alaia Perfum Launch Party in Paris in 2015

The Richest Living Members of The Rothschild Family, Ranked by Net Worth

By Madeleine Horton

Their name is synonymous with extraordinary wealth, power and privilege. Indeed, the Rothschilds are a family like no other, and have amassed seismic wealth over the past three centuries. The international dynasty gained their billions through banking, starting from humble beginnings in Frankfurt, Germany during the 1700s with founder Mayer Amschel Rothschild, and steadily rising to become one of the richest families in the world.

Through their impressive connections, members have married into royalty and made unions with similarly wealthy families such as the Rockefellers and the Hiltons, when James Rothschild married Nicky Hilton.

Today, the family's total net worth is estimated at an eye-watering $400 billion, with some estimates ranging to an astonishing $1 trillion.

Although the family's bank balance and influence has waned slightly since its peak during the 19th century, they still hold one of the largest private fortunes in the world, and remain active in the fields of finance, mining, and real estate, in addition to their philanthropic work. Through diversifying and continually adapting to new trends, the family has managed to keep hold of their fortune across the centuries.

While there is no doubt that the family is certainly extremely wealthy, it is hard to make concrete estimates on the net worths of individuals, and the family's extreme secrecy (which has led to certain conspiracy theories about them) only makes ranking the members more difficult.

But despite these limitations, let's run down a list of the richest living members of the family, ranked by their individual net worth, based on what we know.

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Updated February 2024: On February 26, it was announced that the most senior member of the Rothschild family had passed away. Lord Jacob Rothschild passed away at the age of 87. A cause of death has not been revealed, although there were no reports of ill health before Rothschild's passing. His daughter, Hannah, will be succeeding him as the chair of the Rothschild Foundation.

Given he is no longer living, Rothschild has been removed from this list. At his time of death, Rothschild was worth an estimated $5 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

Nathaniel Rothschild - Net Worth: $1 Billion

• Career: Hedge fund investor

Nathaniel has been dubbed by The New York Times as the man who 'may become the richest Rothschild'. Aged just 52, Nathaniel 'Nat' Rothschild is heir apparent to the title Baron Rothschild, which was held by his father, Jacob.

An alumnus of Eton College and Oxford University, Nathaniel has built upon his family's experience and amassed a wide range of business interests, having worked for hedge funds and invested heavily in coal mining across the world.

His net worth is estimated in the region of $1 billion, though he is rumored to be in line for a $40 billion inheritance set up in Swiss trusts - and this figure may be a very conservative estimate.

James Rothschild - Net Worth: $1.3 Billion

• Career: Financing and banking

Financier and banking heir James Rothschild, 36, is another extremely wealthy member of the Rothschild family. The British businessman is one of the founders of Tru Arrow. He's also worked for Rothschild & Co in the past, and serves on the next gen advisory council at Rockefeller Capital Management.

He is the son of the late Amschel Rothschild, one of the richest members of the British branch of the family, and is also famous for his glamorous union with the similarly wealthy heiress and socialite Nicky Hilton, marrying in 2015 in a star-studded ceremony at Kensington Palace, London, with Nicky's sister Paris as maid of honor.

The couple share two daughters together, Lily and Theodora. They also welcomed a son in July 2022. However, the couple has opted to keep his name under wraps.

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Ariane de Rothschild - Net Worth: $1.4 Billion

• Career: Banker and winery owner

The wife of the late Benjamin de Rothschild, a French banker and owner of several vineyards, Ariane de Rothschild likely inherited her husband's enormous fortune, which was estimated by Forbes to be around $1.4 billion when he died.

The son of Edmond Adolphe, a financier and lead member of the French branch of the family, Benjamin inherited and built upon an enormous family fortune and was one of the richest members of the Rothschild family at the time of his death. He and Ariane married in 1999, and shared four daughters together.

Inheritance aside, Ariane is also a banker, herself, and made history as the first woman to ever run a Rothschild banking institution. That's still not all, though. Ariane is also the first woman in Geneva to be at the helm of a private bank.

Ariane has continued adding to the family's wealth by way of the wine business. In July 2023, she purchased a New Zealand wine farm that specializes in pinot noir.

David Mayer de Rothschild - Net Worth: $10 Billion

• Career: Ecoexplorer

Perhaps the most intrepid of all the Rothschilds, David Mayer, 45, is a well-known adventurer and environmentalist, who has made several polar and tropical expeditions and has sailed on the ship Plastiki to raise awareness of ocean plastic pollution.

For his work, the enthusiastic environmentalist has received significant recognition among his peers, and has published a series of books on his experiences traveling in remote regions.

Various sources estimate his wealth to be around $10 billion, the vast majority of which comes from his sizable inheritances. There's also a chance he earned some cash from work as an ambassador for Hyundai's IONIQ electric cars.

As a wealthy adventurer, environmentalist and philanthropist unafraid to speak for himself, David Mayer De Rothschild is a force to be reckoned with.

Will Rothschild, a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family, was found dead in his Hollywood Hills home after a fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon.

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the scene and extinguished the flames, but unfortunately, Rothschild's body was discovered inside the home.

The cause of the fire and Rothschild's death are still under investigation by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. Neighbors reported that Rothschild was a reclusive and eccentric millionaire who lived in the home with his Afghan hound dog.

Just months prior, Lord Jacob Rothschild, the 4th Baron Rothschild, passed away at 87.

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