Julio Mario Santo Domingo - Family and Personal Life

Family and Personal Life

Born on 16 October 1923 in Panama City, Panama, to Julio Mario Santo Domingo Santo Domingo and Beatriz Pumarejo de Vengoechea, the youngest of their four children; his older siblings were Beatríz Alicia, Cecilia, and Luis Felipe. His father was a banker, described as austere and disciplined, who made a fortune buying companies weakened during the Great Depression; his mother, from a rich and influential family, was first cousin of Alfonso López Pumarejo who was twice President of Colombia. He grew up in Barranquilla and later attended the exclusive Gimnasio Moderno in Bogotá, D.C., ultimately culminating his secondary studies at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts; he later attended University of Virginia before transferring to Georgetown University, but did not finish his degree.

He first married to Edyala Braga, a Brazilian socialite, and former wife of the whom he met in Paris; together they had one son, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga (1958–2009), but the marriage did not last long and they divorced shortly after. He remarried on 15 February 1975 to Colombian socialite Beatrice Dávila Rocha, and together they had two sons, Alejandro Santo Domingo Dávila (b. 1977) who has continued on in the family business and Andrés Santo Domingo Dávila (b. 1978) the co-founder and president of Kemado Records.

Santo Domingo owns homes in New York City, in Paris, Barú, a private island he owns off Cartagena, Colombia,

His first marriage was to Edyala Braga, an aristocratic Brazilian, with whom he had a son:

• Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Jr. (1958–2009) m. Vera Rechulski, a Brazilian socialite
  • Tatiana Santo Domingo (born November 24, 1983), the fianceé of Andrea Casiraghi the son of princess Caroline of Monaco
  • Julio Mario Santo Domingo ,III (born May 2, 1985)