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Benjamin James "Ben" Goldsmith (born 28 October 1980) is an English financier and environmentalist. The son of financier James Goldsmith and Lady Annabel Goldsmith he is one of the managers of the sustainability-focused investment firm WHEB Group. He has used his personal wealth to support both philanthropic and political projects in the area of the environment and sustainability. He had a high profile marriage to Rothschild heiress Kate Emma Rothschild which ended in 2012. The split gained tabloid headlines in the UK after being dubbed the first "Twitter Divorce" for playing out on social media via posts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram." == Personal life == Goldsmith was born in London and is the youngest child of the late billionaire James Goldsmith, a member of the prominent Goldsmith family and his third wife Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart.〔Billionaire: The Life and Times of Sir James Goldsmith by Ivan Fallon〕 He has an older sister, Jemima Khan, and an older brother, Zac Goldsmith, and several half-siblings,〔(thePeerage.com – Person Page 5917 )〕 His brother Zac has had a strong influence on him,〔 and his brother has a passion for the environment inherited from their father, who secretly gave money to green causes, including to campaigns against genetically modified food. His uncle Teddy Goldsmith was a co-founder of the Green Party UK and also of ''The Ecologist''.〔Nilima Choudhury for Responding to Climate Change. 19 August 2013 ( Ben Goldsmith: it’s possible to be green and conservative )〕〔Meredith Veldman. Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain. Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0521440608〕 On 20 September 2003, at St Mary's Church in Bury St Edmunds, he married heiress Kate Emma Rothschild (b. 1982), the daughter of the late Amschel Rothschild and his wife, Anita Patience Guinness, of the Guinness Brewery family. Their wedding was attended by 600 guests, with many blue-blooded and Old Etonian friends, among them Lord Frederick Windsor and Alexander Spencer Churchill. The couple have three children: Iris Annabel (b. 2004), Frank James Amschel (b. 2005) and Isaac Benjamin Victor (b. 2008). On 2 June 2012 it was revealed that Kate, a music producer, had been having an extramarital affair with rapper Jay Electronica for a year. Goldsmith, who was arrested for slapping his wife over the matter, said that he would be filing for divorce. The Goldsmiths' 2012 divorce proceedings made headlines in tabloid media as the first "Twitter Divorce" for playing out on social media via posts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Experts reported that under the terms of the divorce settlement Rothschild would not be entitled to any of her ex-husband's £300m fortune.〔(Rothschild heiress finally realises playing out her marriage split on Twitter is a bad idea and calls a truce with Goldsmith husband ), UK Daily Mail, 7 June 2012.〕 On 19 December 2014, he married Jemima Jones (b. 1987) in London, his girlfriend of two years. Jemima runs a catering company.〔(EXCLUSIVE: Goldsmith heir weds former model just two years after his Rothschild heiress wife dumped him for rapper ), UK Daily Mail, 20 December 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Goldsmith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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