Olivier Sarkozy was born on 26th May 26, 1969, in France. He is an investment banker who works in The Carlyle Group, an American global asset management firm, where, according to the company’s website, he is focused in investing in management buyouts, growth capital opportunities and strategic minority investments in financial services. Olivier’s half-brother is Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France. The banker attracted press attention when he started dating the famous actress Mary-Kate Olsen, who is 17 years younger than him.
So just how rich is Olivier Sarkozy? Olivier’s net worth is $60 million, his money having been made throughout his career in investment banks. He is known in the financial world for several important deals done over the years, including the acquisition of Southtrust by Wachovia for $14 billion, the $35 billion sale of MBNA to Bank of America, and the $7 billion National Commerce’s sale to Suntrust Banks. He is a member of the Board of Directors of BankUnited. Olivier Sarkozy owned a house in New York, a $6.4 million townhouse with a large Juliet balcony, 5 bedrooms, and 8 fireplaces, sold in 2014. Together with his wife, he bought a $13.5 million house in Turtle Bay, Manhattan. The 8,000-square-foot home has an elevator, 5 bedrooms, and a ballroom.
Olivier Sarkozy Net Worth $60 Million
Olivier spent his childhood in France and, after the age of 7, he moved first to Zambia and then to Egypt, because his mother married an American diplomat. He has a master’s in medieval history from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Olivier Sarkozy started his career in financial services in 1990, working for Dillon, Read & Co., an American investment bank. After three years, he joined Credit Suisse First Boston, where he has worked for about 11 years. From his position in CSFB, he interacted with big companies, such as Wachovia, back then one of the largest bank holding companies in the USA, Dime Savings Bank of New York, or CoreStates Financial, a bank holding company from Philadelphia.
In 2003, Olivier Sarkozy became Global Co-Head of the Financial Institutions Group of UBS Investment Bank. Here he worked on large transactions of over $100 billion and was lead advisor in several important movements in the American financial market. In 2008, he started working with the Carlyle Group’s Global Financial Services Group, as Co-head and Managing Director. The Carlyle Group manages over $150 billion in funds, with investments in media, real estate, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and many other fields. As he became more successful in his career, the press has estimated that Olivier Sarkozy’s net worth could be bigger than $60 million, of about $90 million.
Even if he is that wealthy, Olivier Sarkozy is still not as rich as his wife, Mary-Kate Olsen, who has an estimated net worth of $150 million. The banker started dating the actress in 2012 and the couple became quickly present in all media, especially because of the age difference between them. They secretly got married in 2014, in a quiet ceremony. Olivier Sarkozy has two children from a previous marriage with the writer Charlotte Bernard.
