Carmen Thyssen

$1.5B

as of 01/18/26

About Carmen Thyssen

Carmen Thyssen inherited her fortune from her husband, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, when he died in 2002.

She owns an art collection being exhibited at the Thyssen Museum in Madrid that is valued by the Spanish government at more than $1.4 billion.

Carmen Thyssen, a former Miss Spain, married Hans Thyssen-Bornemisza, heir to a German industrial fortune, in 1985; she was his fifth wife.

Hans and his son Georg, now both deceased, settled a 3-year court battle over control of the family's Monaco-based TBG Group months before the elder Thyssen died in 2002.

The Thyssen Museum exhibits the government-owned Thyssen Bornemisza collection as well as the private collection of Carmen Thyssen.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Spain

Source of wealth

Investments, art

Residence

Les Escaldes, Andorra

Marital status

Widowed

Birth date

04/23/43 (age 82)

Number of children

Self-made

inherited

Carmen Thyssen’s fortune is worth

25K

troy ounces of gold

23K

median U.S. household

15K

median U.S. income

0.03%

U.S. credit card volume

0.006%