Controversy: Billionaire Porsche owner files for divorce from wife, who suffers from dementia

Wolfgang Porsche, billionaire executive of the multinational automotive company, has asked his wife for divorce because she suffers from dementia. “Everything has become unbearable for me,” described the executive. The decision is not without controversy and has opened the debate on social media.

Sources close to the couple say the 79-year-old tycoon finds it “impossible” to live with his wife, Claudia Porsche, 74, whose failing health has permanently altered his personality, the Daily Beast reported, citing German newspaper Bild. .

The billionaire, who dated Claudia in 2007 before getting married in 2019, cited his illness and these “drastic changes” in his personality. as a reason for separation.

Claudia, a former German government adviser, has been unable to move without help for months, the outlet reported. For the past two years, she has relied on the round-the-clock care of her daughter and four housekeepers.

Meanwhile, her future ex-husband is believed he was spending time with his lifelong friend, Gabriela Prinzessin zu Leiningen, 59.

Divorced twice, Gabriela married her first husband, Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen, in 1991, before their union fell apart seven years later. A few months after divorcing the prince, she married 86-year-old Swiss Karim Aga Khan IV.

Her marriage to the 49th Imam of the Nizari Ismailis lasted 16 years before their divorce in 2014.

Wolfgang, who resides in Austria, was previously married to director Susanne Bresser in 1988. The couple had two children before divorcing in 2008. He also shares two children with Claudia.

Wolfgang is currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE, as well as Porsche AG.

The executive, whose family assets are worth an estimated $22 billionis the youngest son of former designer and CEO of Porsche AG Ferdinand Porsche Jr. and Dorothea Reitz.

His grandfather, Ferdinand Porsche Sr., was the founder of Porsche AG.