Personal Life
In 1960 Horten met Austrian Heidi Jelinek, a woman 32 years his junior, in a hotel bar in Velden am Wörthersee - the couple married on July 23, 1966 in Düsseldorf-Lohausen and moved to Croglio in the Swiss canton of Ticino at the end of 1968. Horten enjoyed living the life of a wealthy man – he owned a BAC 1-11 as a private jet, a series of private yachts named after Carinthia, and a villa in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In Duisburg, the centre of his business activities, he made donations to the tennis club, the carnival and the zoo. The Helmut Horten Stiftung promotes medical research.
His widow inherited his $1 billion fortune, and lives today between homes in Croglio, Lyford Cay, by the Wörthersee in Austria and a penthouse in Vienna. Rated as the world's 224th-richest person by Forbes magazine, she also commissioned and owns one of the world's largest yachts, in the Carinthia VII.
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