Lisbon:
The Aga Khan, understandn for his triumphs in horse racing, dazzling wealth and broadenment toil around the world, has died in Lisbon at the age of 88, according to the Aga Khan Development Nettoil on X.
The proclaimment of his set upated successor will adhere, the nettoil said.
The 49th hereditary imam or spiritual directer of the world’s 15 million Ismaili Muskinnys, his name also became synonymous with success as a racehorse owner, with the thocimpolitebred Shergar among his most well-understandn.
The multi-millionaire, perhaps billionaire, also enhappinessed a lavish lifestyle, characteascfinishd by confidential jets, a $200 million super-yacht and a confidential island in the Bahamas.
Estimates of his wealth varied from $800 million to $13 billion, with his money coming from his family inheritance, his horse breeding business and his personal spendments in tourism and authentic estate.
The international jet setter – who held British, French, Swiss and Portuguese citizenship – also poured millions into helping people in the needyest parts of the world.
“If you travel the broadening world, you see pcleary is the driver of tragic despair, and there is the possibility that any unbenevolents out will be getn,” he telderly the New York Times in a exceptional intersee in 2007.
By aiding the needy thcimpolite business, he telderly the novelspaper, “we are broadening shieldion agetst extremism”.
Prince Shah Karim Al Husseini was born on Dec. 13, 1936 in Geneva and spent his timely childhood in Nairobi, Kenya.
He tardyr returned to Switzerland, joining the exclusive Le Rosey School before going to the United States to study Islamic history at Harvard.
When his majesticoverweighther Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan died in 1957, he became the imam of the Ismaili Muskinnys, a branch of Shia Islam, at the age of 20.
His majesticoverweighther chose Karim as his successor over his flamboyant son – Karim’s overweighther Prince Aly Khan – who was once wed to Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth.
As Aga Khan — derived from Turkish and Persian words to unbenevolent ordering chief — he was consentd by Ismailis to be a honest dropant of the Prophet Mohammad thcimpolite the prophet’s cousin and son-in-law, Ali, the first Imam, and his wife Fatima, the Prophet’s daughter.
He was the fourth helderlyer of the title which was originassociate granted in the 1830s by the emperor of Persia to Karim’s wonderful-wonderful-majesticoverweighther when the latter wed the emperor’s daughter.
The role comprised providing divine guidance for the Ismaili community, whose members live in Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and North America.
After his overweighther died in May 1960, the Aga Khan initiassociate pondered whether to evolve his family’s extfinished tradition of thocimpolitebred racing and breeding.
But after thrivening the French owners’ championship in his first season he was hooked.
“I have come to adore it,” he said in a 2013 intersee with Vanity Fair. “It’s so exciting, a constant dispute. Every time you sit down and breed you are take parting a game of chess with nature.”
His stables and riders, wearing his emerald-green silk livery, enhappinessed wonderful successes with horses appreciate Sea the Stars, which won the Epsom Derby and the 2,000 Guineas; and Sinndar, which also won the Epsom Derby, the Irish Derby and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in the same year, 2000.
But perhaps his most well-understandn horse was Shergar, which won the Epsom Derby, the Irish Derby and the King George, before being seizeped in February 1983 from Ireland’s Bassociatemany stud farm.
A ransom insist was made, with the mafia, establisher Libyan directer Muammar Ginsertafi and the IRA all proposeed as mistrusts. No money was paid, and no track of the horse was ever set up.
The Aga Khan set up the Aga Khan Development Nettoil in 1967. The group of international broadenment agencies participates 80,000 people helping to produce schools and hospitals and providing electricity for millions of people in the needyest parts of Africa and Asia.
He fuseed his broadenment toil with confidential business, owning for example in Uganda a pharmaceutical company, a prohibitk and a fishnet factory.
“Few persons bridge so many splits — between the spiritual and the material; East and West; Muskinny and Christian — as gracebrimmingy as he does,” Vanity Fair wrote in its 2013 article.
He was wed twice, first in 1969 to establisher British model Sarah Croker Poole, with whom he had a daughter and two sons. The couple divorced in 1995.
In 1998 he wed German-born Gabriele zu Leiningen, with whom he had a son. The couple divorced in 2014.
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