A symbol of good manners, she who has published multiple works on how to entertain well, the arts of the table or education, Nadine de Rothschild is a woman who saw her life turned upside down when she met the very wealthy Edmond de Rothschild who was at the head of an empire.
With him, she led a happy and fulfilled life. They have one child, Benjamin, born 1963 (died 2021) shortly after their marriage. The former muse of the painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue, long courted by Georges Brassens, spent 34 beautiful years with her husband before he died. We are in 1997, she is a little over 50 years old and is not open to starting a new life. And a man, far from being just anyone, suggested that she remarry. His name is internationally known: Rockefeller. It was then David Rockefeller, last grandson of John Rockefeller, businessman at the origin of this family’s fortune.
Nadine de Rothschild courted by a billionaire and a great artist
David was among the 100 richest people on the planet, in the list established by the magazine TheRichest, with a fortune of 3.3 billion dollars – around 3 billion euros. “Since he was a family friend, he thought that we knew the same people, had the same friends and that it could very well make a very good marriage. He was charming, very well mannered, courteous. We had the same habits; we frequented the same circles. But that didn’t happen“, the Baroness told the Figaro A few years ago. And to add with humor that by marrying him she would not have needed to change the initials of her luggage,” Rockefeller, Rothschild, it was the same thing“. The marriage ultimately did not take place and perhaps that is a good thing because David Rockefeller died in 2017. Nadine de Rothschild would have been widowed a second time.
Nadine Lhopitalier, her maiden name, has always been courted. As said above, Georges Brassens had fallen for her. “Georges always said to me: ‘do you want to have dinner with me? And I always told him: ‘Yes, Georges, but tomorrow.’ But it was never tomorrow. He was very naive and at one point he must have realized that I was leading him on.“, she told Figaro. Holy Nadine…
