July 11, 1996
Amschel Rothschild, the man many believed would be the prestigious Rothschild Bank's next leader, hanged himself in a Paris luxury hotel, a newspaper reported Thursday.
Rothschild's body was found by a cleaning lady Monday in his room at the Hotel Bristol, not far from the presidential Elysee Palace, the Paris daily Le Parisien said. Rothschild, 41, was widely expected to take over the British merchant bank N.M. Rothschild and Sons.
Police officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the paper the banker hanged himself. Both the bank and the Rothschild family refused to comment on the death.
Rothschild was appointed chief executive of Rothschild Asset Management in 1990, later becoming its chairman. The moves led to speculation that he was being prepared to succeed his cousin Sir Evelyn Rothschild as chairman of the family bank.
The Rothschild family gained prominence by financing such projects as the construction of European railroads and the British military campaign that led to the final defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.
Rothschild is survived by his wife, Anita Guinness, a son, and two daughters.
Funeral arrangements were not announced but were expected to be private.
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The Associated Press N E W Y O R K, April 29 —A scion of the internationally known Rothschild family collapsed on a Manhattan sidewalk and died of an apparent drug overdose following a downtown party, officials said.
Authorities said Raphael de Rothschild, 23, died on the afternoon of April 22 outside a Chelsea loft. William Corbin, a friend of Rothschild, was later arrested and charged with heroin possession, according to police. Corbin has denied any involvement in the death. Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner, said toxicology results were pending. But a police source told the New York Daily News, “We have little doubt he died of a drug overdose.”
Family’s Fame Spans Centuries
Like the Rockefellers in the United States, the Rothschilds played a major role in French business and culture. They helped make Paris one of the most significant financial capitals in Europe, and are famed for their wineries in the Bordeaux region, including the baron’s Chateau Clark.
The family gained prominence by financing such massive projects as European railroads and the British military campaign that led to the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in June 1815.
With their vast wealth, they acquired first-rate art and period furnishings, much of which has been donated to French museums like the Louvre. The current generation of the family expanded to both London and New York.
Raphael’s father, Nathaniel de Rothschild, heads an $8 billion financial services company.
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HEROIN BINGE KILLS ROTHSCHILD HEIR
Pubdate: Mon, 01 May 2000 Source: Irish Independent (Ireland) Website: http://www.independent.ie/
Author: Ben Fenton Raphael de Rothschild, scion of one of the world's richest families, has been found dead of a suspected heroin overdose on a pavement in a rundown area of New York. Mr de Rothschild (23) is believed to have taken a large dose of the drug at a party with friends on 10th Avenue in the city's Chelsea section. Living in the same building on Fifth Avenue where Jackie Onassis had her home, Mr de Rothschild was the grandson of Elie de Rothschild, one of the stalwarts of the French side of a financial dynasty that once held the purse strings of Europe. Elie had a tempestuous relationship with the late Pamela Harriman, ex-wife of Sir Winston Churchill's son Randolph, in the post-war years but rebuffed her entreaties to divorce his wife and marry her. Mr de Rothschild's father, Nathaniel, is chairman of a European banking business worth 5bn pounds Sterling. Friends said Raphael was bursting with vitality and was a fixture on New York's fashionable social circuit. In a life of glamorous parties and beautiful girlfriends, he frequented nightspots like Moomba and Harry Cipriani. New York papers yesterday quoted friends who described him as "out of control and in the city's fast lane". He had been a student at America's best known private schools and then went to the Ivy League Brown University in Rhode Island. The death is the latest in a series of tragedies to afflict the world's greatest banking dynasty. In 1923, Charles Rothschild, a scion of the British branch of the family, cut his throat while in the grip of depression. Charles's grandson Amschel hanged himself in a Paris hotel in 1996. Raphael de Rothschild is not the first member of his family to have flirted with heroin. Four years ago, his cousin Benjamin was fined pounds 400 for carrying the drug in Southampton airport, England. The Geneva-based Benjamin was revealed to be a registered addict who had been enrolled in rehabilitation programmes in Paris.
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