Hedge fund billionaire Paulson. (Photo / Retrieved from John Alfred Paulson Facebook)
Hedge fund billionaire John Alfred Paulson (John Alfred Paulson), who has “Wall Street Air God” and “Hedge Fund No. 1”, not only has a set of investments, but also seems to know “risk aversion” in marriage; recently Wife Jenica Paulson has accused her of secretly setting up multiple trust funds within her marriage in order to hide billions of dollars in assets from him when she filed for divorce.
according to“Bloomberg”Jenica, 50, sued her husband in Manhattan state court on Thursday, arguing that Paulson had secretly established three irrevocable trust funds with a group of agents and advisers that led her to Unable to get a “fair and equitable share” following the divorce; Jenica demanded that Paulson must compensate her at least $1 billion (regarding NT$29.79 billion) to cover her losses.
Paulson, 66, is the head of the American investment management company “Paulson & Co. INC.” and has a net worth of US$4.6 billion (regarding NT$137.034 billion). “Bloomberg” pointed out that Paulson mainly made his investment in the U.S. real estate market before the 2008 financial crisis, and then when the market crashed, he made regarding 15 billion US dollars for himself and investors; in 2011 his Assets peaked at regarding $38 billion, and in 2022, the hedge fund company will be converted into a family office (Family Office), providing services including investment, financial management, accounting and legal aspects.
Jenica claimed that she was a conscientious and faithful wife, dedicated to helping her husband’s business develop business and social relationships, while relying on him to handle the family’s finances, but Paulson kept secrets in 2001, 2006 and 2009. Establishing a trust fund specifically to exclude her from the divorce case, and that the funds were not distributed to their children; she alleges that “while Mr. Paulson created the trust fund ostensibly for the financial benefit of the family, it actually They were set up in secret to avoid Mr. Paulson’s losses in the divorce.”
It is reported that Paulson filed for divorce in a Long Island state court in September last year. He and his wife Jenica have been married for more than 20 years and have two daughters in their 10s. But Jenica said she only learned that her husband had filed for divorce following reading the New York Times report.