Marriages and Child
In 1985, she married her first husband, economist and shipping heir Basil Embiricos,, the younger son of Nicholas Embiricos from Lausanne, Switzerland, from a wealthy and important shipowners greek family. Basil Embiricos was an economist active in the family companies. He was educated at Eton and received a degree in economics from Magdalene College of Cambridge University. The couple had only one son, Andrew Ali Aga Khan Embiricos. They were divorced in 1987. Andrew, their only child, died at 25 in an apparent suicide, on December 4, 2011.
In 1989, she married her second husband, lawyer and real-estate developer Christopher Michael Jeffries. He divorced her in 1993, charging abandonment.
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