Tamiko Bolton gained popularity as the wife of George Soros, a billionaire investor, philanthropist and author. But that’s not all there is to know about this Japanese woman, who is an Education consultant, a pharmacist as well as an entrepreneur. She remains steady in her career despite being married to a billionaire and living the life of luxury.
Moreover, she does not have any social media account as she likes to keep her personal life private, but she does attend social functions in the company of her husband.
Bolton’s husband, George Soros is widely regarded as ‘the man who broke the bank of England’ after famously betting against the British pound during 1992, Black Wednesday UK currency crises, and gaining $1 billion dollars in the process. Born on August 12, 1930, Soros is a Hungarian immigrant who started his career by working for various merchant banks in the UK and the United States. He attended London School of Economics where he bagged a bachelors and masters degree in philosophy. He established one of the first hedge funds in 1969 from where he got the seed capital to start his second hedge fund in 1970, known as Soros fund management. Soros is a well-known philanthropist, he has donated several billions of dollars to philanthropic gestures through his foundation, the Open society foundation.
Tamiko Bolton Biography
Meanwhile, his wife Tamiko Bolton is an American citizen of Japanese descent. She was born in 1971 in California USA where she was raised as is the daughter of a naval commander and a nurse. It is not clear whether she has any siblings thus, it is assumed there are none.
Bolton is an alumnus of the University of Utah where she obtained a degree in pharmacy. After obtaining an MBA from the University of Miami she began her career as a consultant and entrepreneur in the areas of health and education. She has an online company that sells vitamins and dietary supplements and also developed an internet-based yoga education class.
Marriage to George Soros
Tamiko Bolton met her husband George Soros at a dinner party in 1998. Thereafter they established a long-lasting relationship away from the public eye and eventually, the engagement of then 42-year-old Tamiko Bolton and 83-year-old Soros was announced in August 2012. Soros made the proposal while they were at a weekend getaway in his Southampton residence.
The couple tied the knot in a grand ceremony attended by prominent personalities and world leaders in September 2013 at Soros estate in Bedford New York which he purchased in 2003 from the Jurassic park author, Michael Crichton.
Furthermore, US federal Judge Kimba Woods officiated the non-denominational ceremony. It was reported that over 500 guests attended the wedding reception held at the Caramoor centre for music and the Arts while provisions were made for an additional 300 guests at the museum of modern Arts in Manhattan.
The couple’s family and the groom’s children were also part of the occasion as well as notable guests such as the former president of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former and 12th President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim, former president of Estonia, Hendrik Toomas Ilves, and several other distinguished personalities.
Moreover, Tamiko Bolton’s wedding dress was designed by a US-based designer Reem Acra, who is said to have designed clothes for celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie. The guests were asked not to come bearing gifts for the newlyweds, but rather donate generously to various charities organizations.
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As elegant as the marriage ceremony was, it would be Bolton’s second marriage and Soros’s third. Details into their previous marital status reveal that Soros contracted his first marriage with Annaliese Witschak in 1960 which lasted for over two decades before it crashed in 1983. They had three children: Robert Daniel Soros, Andrea Soros Colombel and Jonathan Tivadar Soros.
Afterwards, the billionaire married his second wife, a historian, named Susan Weber Soros in 1983 and they had two sons: Alexander Soros and Gregory Soros before ending the marriage in 2005.
After his second divorce, Soros dated Brazilian actress, Adriana Ferreyr for five years, before their relationship went sour and they broke up in 2010. However, it didn’t end without some squabble, as a legal battle ensued between Tamiko Bolton and Adriana Ferreyr over a Manhattan condo that Soros promised to give Ferreyr but was given to Bolton. It was quite a controversial situation at the time which lead to Ferreyl physically assaulting Soros and his lawyers during the hearing of the case.
Tamiko Bolton Net Worth
Being the wife of a billionaire can only mean one thing – Tamiko Bolton is living a luxurious lifestyle irrespective of her net worth. She is assured of the good things of life even if she does not work another day in her life.
While her net worth unknown, that of her husband’s stands at $8.3 billion as of 2020. While it is expected that George Soros would leave most of his wealth to charity, his legal advisers disclosed that the investor intends to leave a substantial amount for the well being of his wife after his death.
