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'''Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga''' (1958 – March 2009) was the eldest son of [[Julio Mario Santo Domingo]] and Edyala Braga, of the same family as [[Carlos Eduardo de Sousa Braga|Eduardo Braga]], former governor of [[Amazonas (Brazilian state)|Amazonas]]. He was the director of the Santo Domingo Group, his family's [[conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] of more than 100 companies.<ref name="laht">[http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=12393&ArticleId=330732 "Colombian Businessman Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga Dies." ''Latin American Herald Tribune'']</ref> |
'''Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga''' (1958 – March 2009) was the eldest son of [[Julio Mario Santo Domingo]] and Edyala Braga, {{refnec|of the same family as [[Carlos Eduardo de Sousa Braga|Eduardo Braga]]}}, former governor of [[Amazonas (Brazilian state)|Amazonas]]. He was the director of the Santo Domingo Group, his family's [[conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]] of more than 100 companies.<ref name="laht">[http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=12393&ArticleId=330732 "Colombian Businessman Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga Dies." ''Latin American Herald Tribune'']</ref> |
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== Biography == |
== Biography == |
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Revision as of 15:36, 7 November 2016
Template:Spanish name Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga (1958 – March 2009) was the eldest son of Julio Mario Santo Domingo and Edyala Braga, [citation needed], former governor of Amazonas. He was the director of the Santo Domingo Group, his family's conglomerate of more than 100 companies.[1]
Biography
Santo Domingo studied literature at Columbia University[2] and law at Panthéon-Assas University.[3] Throughout his life, he was passionate about literature of all periods but especially French literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.[4] He was a collector of printed books and manuscripts.[2] He had a particular regard for Marcel Proust, but he also greatly admired and collected the works of Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine.[2] He had huge collections of rock and roll and antique Chinese opium paraphernalia,[5] and was an ardent fan of AS Saint-Étienne, a French soccer team.[2][4]
He married Vera Rechulski from São Paulo, and they had two children:
- Tatiana Santo Domingo (born 1983).
- Julio Mario Santo Domingo, III (born 1985).
He is also survived by his parents and by two half-brothers:
- Alejandro Santo Domingo, a financier and the family's successor as director of the Santo Domingo Group
- Andrés Santo Domingo, a music industrialist whose 2008 wedding to the socialite Lauren Davis was a "society" spectacle in the pages of US Vogue magazine
He died in New York from cancer, diagnosed in October 2009. [1][4]
References
- ^ a b "Colombian Businessman Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga Dies." Latin American Herald Tribune
- ^ a b c d Obituary for Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga by El Espectador>
- ^ Obituary by El Mundo
- ^ a b c Obituary by Cromos magazine
- ^ Field of dreams: A remarkable exhibition sheds new light on the dark history of the opium business The Independent, 02 June 2013
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