Background and Early Life
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Suzane is the daughter of the German engineer Manfred Albert Freiherr von Richthofen, and his wife, Marisia von Richthofen (née Marísia Magnani Abdalla), a Brazilian of Lebanese descent. Her father was working as a director of the State Company for Highway Development in São Paulo, her mother was a psychiatrist. Suzane has a younger brother, Andreas Albert von Richthofen, born in April 26, 1987. Her father claimed to be a grandnephew of Manfred von Richthofen, German war pilot of World War I, but this is still disputed; the German von Richthofen family denies any link to them. After graduating from a German High School, Suzane studied law at Pontifícia Universidade Católica. She was described as happy, but a little shy. Suzane was known to have a good relation with her parents and her brother. In the summer of 1999, she started practising Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and that's where she got to know Daniel Cravinhos de Paula e Silva, who became her boyfriend and accomplice of the murder.
The net worth of The Richthofen clan is over 5.5 million dollars. When Suzanne turned 18 in November 2001, her father opened an account with 30 million Euros in Switzerland in her name. The money was probably the result of corruption by DERSA, a company in which Manfred von Richthofen was the engineer responsible for the construction of the Mario Covas beltway, billionaire budget. As the account is in her name, nothing prevents Suzane have access to money after serving her sentence.
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