Louise Thérèse Viger Blouin (born 1958/59) is a Canadian magazine publisher. She is owner of Louise Blouin Media, which she founded.[2]
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| Born | Louise Thérèse Blouin 1958 or 1959 (age 65–66)[1] Dorval, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | Magazine publisher |
| Known for | Louise Blouin Media |
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Biography
editBlouin was born in Dorval, a suburb of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada, the youngest of six children of Edouard Blouin and Yolande Viger Blouin, who owned and operated a life insurance brokerage.[3][4][5] Her father died when she was fifteen. She appeared as the representative of Canada at the International Debutante Ball in January 1978.[4] She studied commerce at McGill University for a year, and later transferred to Concordia University. She did not graduate.[6] She worked as a stock analyst and as a stockbroker.[1]
In the early 1980s, Blouin married David MacDonald Stewart, a member of the Canadian MacDonald tobacco family. The marriage was annulled within a year.[1]
Blouin later married John MacBain and the couple acquired Auto Hebdo, a classified car trading magazine, in 1987. The business grew into Trader Classified Media. Although the couple separated in 2000, Blouin did not sell her remaining shareholding until 2004.[7] After the separation she became chief executive of the London auction house Phillips de Pury, owned by her new companion Simon de Pury; in December 2002, after a year, she resigned.[7] She started Louise Blouin Media in 2003, and moved into art publications, including Art+Auction, sold by the LVMH group.[3]
In 2005 Blouin started the Louise T. Blouin Foundation, an international organisation for creativity and the arts.[8] In October 2006 the foundation opened the Louise T. Blouin Institute in Shepherd's Bush in west London.[1]
Blouin married Mathew Kabatoff, who worked for the Louise Blouin Foundation, in France in June 2011.[2][9]
In 2016, her name appeared in the Panama Papers as registered owner of five companies in the British Virgin Islands.[10] She commented, "I didn't even know. . . It is not relevant. It is not because you are in the Panama list that you did something wrong. You are the one informing me about that. You can't assume everyone with a BVI [company] has done something wrong".[11][12]
In 2023, Blouin's La Dune home in the Hamptons sold for $89 million.[3] The property on Gin Lane in Southampton had been listed for as much as $150 million in 2022.[13][14]
Blouin lives in Switzerland.[11]
Recognition
editIn 1993 Blouin was one of approximately 200 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" listed by the World Economic Forum, a Swiss foundation.[15]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Sarah Hampson (8 October 2006). Sarah Hampson interviews Louise T Blouin MacBain. The Observer. Archived 5 July 2009.
- ^ a b Benjamin Genocchio (5 October 2011). New York Observer's Desperate LBM Smear Misfires — And Is Full of Errors. Artinfo. Archived 7 October 2011.
- ^ a b c Bernstein, Jacob (25 February 2024). "$89 Million Can't Fix Her Mistakes". The New York Times. Vol. 173, no. 60075. pp. ST1, ST4. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ a b Talaga, Tanya (9 April 2016). "Who uses offshore tax shelters? One of Canada's richest women". Toronto Star. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "M. Lucien-P. Beiair, C.A." Le Soleil (in French). Vol. 77, no. 249. Quebec. 30 October 1973. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ Hampson, Sarah (8 October 2005). "The Queen of the Rarefied". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ a b Andrew Porter (14 March 2004). Art Publisher's Ambition is a Study in Revenge. The Sunday Times. Archived 12 June 2011.
- ^ Felicia R. Lee (2 May 2005). A New Arts Foundation with a Focus on Creativity. New York Times.
- ^ Kat Stoeffel (10 May 2011). Will a Paywall Help Keep the Lights on at Louise Blouin Media?. The New York Observer. Archived 6 October 2011.
- ^ Ryan Steadman (11 April 2016). Blouin Hot Air? Panama Papers Expose Art Pub Mogul's Offshore Companies. London: The Observer.
- ^ a b "One of Canada's richest women, Louise Blouin in Panama Papers | Metro News". Metronews.ca. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- ^ Tanya Talaga (9 April 2016). Who uses offshore tax shelters? One of Canada's richest women. The Toronto Star. Archived 9 April 2016.
- ^ Solomont, E.B. "La Dune Compound, Once Priced at $150 Million, to Sell for $79 Million". WSJ. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ Kinsella, Eileen (26 January 2024). "The Southampton Mansion of Art's Disgraced 'Red Queen' Is Auctioned For $79 Million—a Discount". Artnet News. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
- ^ GLT Class 1993. Geneva: World Economic Forum. Accessed April 2015.