Personal Life
Campeau resided in a lakeside castle in Austria and he became involved in some real estate projects, including developing a large subdivision in Teltow (former GDR) near Berlin, Germany. That project failed and Campeau's company went bankrupt 2001. The funds of the charitable foundation (Robert Campeau Family Foundation) used in his business were lost.
In 1996, Campeau and his wife Ilsa, mother of 3 of his children separated. While she stayed in Austria, he first lived in Berlin (presidential suite of Four Seasons Hotel) with Christel Dettmann, a former East German politician, and then he returned to live in Ottawa in 2001 together with Christel.
The divorce proceedings went on for many years, Ilsa's pleadings were struck and in the end, an Ontario judge, ruled in his favour.
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