On December 29, 2013, the former Formula 1 driver was the victim of a serious skiing accident in Meribel. Ten years later, his wife, who took over the reins of the family empire, would become a “tough businesswoman.”
“He was underestimated by a lot of people and he still is,” Corinna Schumacher’s friend slips in the columns. Bild: , this Friday, December 29. Ten years after her husband Michael’s serious skiing accident, the fifty-year-old girl is now at the heart of the Schumacher empire, which she manages masterfully, writes the German daily. With a £500m (€575m) fortune, the mother of Mick, 24, and Gina Maria, 26, has even become a ‘tough businesswoman’.
Reins of Empire
Agreed Bild:Corinna Schumacher is still the preferred contact for the group of financial and tax advisors, lawyers and asset managers who surround Michael Schumacher. “Corinna sits down with this small circle of four or five people, three or four times a year, and makes decisions about the future sale of the family empire and new investments,” writes the German daily.
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He oversees, in short, the management of the family business’s shares, real estate, leases, and other investments. In 2015, she notably decided to sell the ex-Ferrari driver’s plane for £25m (€29m) and their holiday home in Norway, where her husband loved to recharge his batteries and party.
Owner of ranches in Switzerland and Texas, he has also won more than $2 million (€1.8 million) in dressage competitions. This year he also became the second richest horse owner in Europe within the National Reining Association (NRHA). But the 54-year-old businessman isn’t just after Schumacher’s empire. She also ensures that her husband’s private life is thoroughly respected. And allows only rare people to visit the latter, treated at their property on Lake Geneva.
“Dozens” of rejections
Many of Michael Schumacher’s former teammates and friends would refuse to visit with the former athlete. All this with the aim of protecting the ex-pilot from possible leaks to the media, which would likely reveal confidential details about his health. “Only a few people are allowed to visit him,” said the champion’s former teammate Luca Badoer. Sun , Thursday, December 28. Corinna decides who she allows to see him.’
Luca Badoer would indeed be one of the few close to Michael Schumacher, along with Jean Todt, still authorized to visit him. “The family wants to maintain some sort of privacy around his medical condition, and I respect their wishes,” he continued. They are doing all this for Michael’s sake.” Concerned about protecting her husband’s privacy since 1995, Corinna Schumacher says she turned down the pilot’s former manager, Willie Weber, “a dozen times” from going to the former pilot’s bedside.
Rubens Barrichello, the latter’s former team-mate, would also be shown the door, citing that his visit “would not do him or Michael any good”. According to Johnny Herbert, another close friend of the Schumacher family, the clan will now try to live as peacefully as possible. “He (Corinna, editor’s note) said they were trying to continue their family life as Michael would have wanted, she said DailyMail. Their existence follows its course, but what is private remains private. A philosophy that Michael Schumacher’s infallible wife has always applied.
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Source: Le Figaro
