Austrian businessman Wolfgang Heinz Porsche, executive of the famous automobile house, has initiated divorce proceedings with his wife, Claudia. The 79-year-old billionaire has decided to initiate legal proceedings to end his marriage after the illness of his 73-year-old wife has made coexistence impossible, in his opinion.
Together since 2007, the couple married in 2019. According to the billionaire, Claudia’s state of health would have worsened over the years, who suffers, according to her words in the documents presented, “a disease similar to dementia”, which According to him, his personality would have completely changed.
Some procedures that the executive -shareholder and currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Familie Porsche AG, managing partner of Porsche Holding GmbH, in addition to being part of the board of directors of 11 other companies- begins after a year hardly living with his wife , who has lived near her daughter all this time, with four people hired to be in her care.
Claudia Porsche suffers from a disease that does not allow her to move independently, something that has been getting worse over the months; Not to mention that her cognitive abilities would be declining at a faster rate than expected, according to family sources reveal to the Mirror newspaper.
According to sources close to the couple consulted by the aforementioned newspaper, a fight is coming over the matrimonial assets, since the fortune of the Porsches is estimated at around 20 billion euros.
A divorce that the executive would have justified by his wife’s illness, but that German newspapers like Bunte are already beginning to speculate that there could be another reason. Specifically, a woman, Princess Gabriele zu Leiningen, 59 years old and a great friend of the businessman for more than two decades.
Gabriela, also known as Princess Inaara Aga Khan, following her 1998 marriage to Prince Karim al-Husayni, also known as the Aga Khan IV; one of the richest members of royalty and one of the most influential and well-connected leaders in the world. The princess, mother of Aly Muhammad Aga Khan (23), filed for divorce from the Aga Khan after six years of marriage and, after a lengthy legal battle, the couple divorced in 2014 with Princess Gabriele signing a settlement worth more than 50 million euros.
