Billionaire philanthropist Hans Rausing has been hit with a brand new tragedy after the dying of his second spouse to most cancers.
Julia Rausing handed away peacefully yesterday morning surrounded by her household, it was revealed final evening.
The 63-year-old had devoted herself to a lifetime of philanthropy alongside together with her husband.
The couple donated $642 million in additional than 1,000 grants, together with $97 million to UK charities yearly, via the Julia and Hans Rausing Belief.
The Tetra Pak inheritor’s first spouse, Eva, died of a drug overdose in 2012.
Mr Rausing obtained a suspended ten-month jail time period after he hid her physique in a bed room at their $136 million Belgravia mansion for 2 months, stopping her “respectable and lawful burial” as a result of he couldn’t “let her depart”.
He married Julia Delves Broughton two years later. A senior director of public sale home Christie’s, she was the sister of fashionista Isabella Blow.
Their grandfather, Sir Jock Delves Broughton, was sensationally acquitted of murdering the Earl of Erroll within the White Mischief case, which rocked Kenyan expat society within the Nineteen Forties.
Mr Rausing mentioned yesterday: “My beloved spouse, Julia, devoted her life to her household and charitable causes, and he or she can be missed by all who knew her. She leaves behind a unprecedented legacy throughout many charities, which we’ll proceed in her title.”
The Rausings had been main forces in fundraising through the pandemic. They supplied an $35 million “lifeline” for small and medium charities underneath the Charity Survival Fund in 2020, in addition to $32 million for different Covid causes, together with a $1.9 million donation to the Day by day Mail’s Mail Pressure marketing campaign.
