![]() His second wife was Ginette Lery, who worked for him as a secretary, but it was not an exclusive relationship.īy the time Ginette gave birth to a son, Manes, in 1959, Goldsmith was having an affair with Sally Crichton-Stuart, later to marry the Aga Khan. The couple’s child – also named Isabel – survived. Struck down by a cerebral haemorrhage in her seventh month of pregnancy, she died that May. Aged 20, James 'Jimmy' Goldsmith eloped with 18-year-old Maria Isabel Patino, heiress to a Bolivian tin mining fortune, in January 1954.īut the marriage was cruelly brief. His father’s love life was similarly unconstrained by convention. He regained the constituency as a Conservative candidate at the 2017 general election with majority of just 45 votes and was appointed as a minister by his friend Boris Johnson.Īlthough he lost Richmond Park at the 2019 general election, it was announced shortly after that he would continue to serve as a minister by being awarded a life peerage and sitting as a member of the House of Lords. He stood as an independent, but lost to the Lib Dems, who overturned his majority of 23,000. The same year, he lost a by-election in Richmond Park that he had initiated by resigning his seat. In 2016, Lord Goldsmith was selected as the Tory candidate in the London mayoral election, but lost to Sadiq Khan after a highly acrimonious contest. Friends insisted he 'agonised' over leaving Ms Ventura-Bentley.īut his admission helped smooth the divorce, which took place at the High Court in only 30 seconds. He lost an estimated £20million in the settlement. ![]() Initially the meetings were explained away as her helping him organise a poker tournament.Įventually, four days after becoming a Tory MP for Richmond Park in 2010, he publicly confessed to adultery. Gossip soon emerged about Lord Goldsmith visiting Ms Rothschild in the afternoons. Kate and Ben split in 2012 after Kate allegedly had an affair with American rapper Jay Electronica. At the time she was Lord Goldsmith's sister-in-law his brother Ben, 42, was married to Alice’s sister Kate, 40. His relationship with Ms Rothschild, however, started in 2006. The announcement came four months after Lord Goldsmith, an aspiring MP at the time, was reportedly told by senior Tories to 'resolve any conflict in his love life'. The couple had three children daughters Uma Romaine and Thyra, and a son James.īut, ten years later in 2009, they separated and divorced. ![]() Their lavish ceremony for 350 people took place at the Ritz Hotel in London. The simple event was a far cry from Mr Goldsmith’s first wedding to Sheherazade Ventura-Bentley, daughter of actress Viviane Ventura and financier John Bentley, in 1999. The couple married in a tiny thatched cottage within the London Wetland Centre, a nature reserve in south-west London, which cost just £500 to hire for the evening.Īfter fitting 42 guests in at their 30-minute ceremony, Mr and Mrs Goldsmith were driven from the bird sanctuary to a grander reception for 170 at Petersham Nurseries in nearby Richmond. They have a nine-year-old daughter Dolly, born in the year they wed, a son Max, seven, and youngest daughter Edie, five. ![]() Lord Goldsmith, 48, who has an estimated fortune of £300million, married Ms Rothschild, 39, in 2013. Friends of the couple insist no one else is involved in the split.
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