Horten married Helmut in 1966, when she was 19 and he was around 50. Her husband, Helmut — dead since 1987, supposedly laid the foundation for his impressive department-store fortune by ...

Jewels owned by the late billionaire Heidi Horten, whose first husband purchased Jewish businesses sold under duress during the Nazi era, fetched a combined $201 million.

Horten’s former husband, Helmut, first made his fortune in Nazi Germany by buying out Jewish businesses “sold under duress,” Christie’s acknowledged in its sale catalog, having initially ...

The estate of Heidi Horten is selling the necklace she is wearing, the “Briolette of India,” and 699 other jewels in a sale that has drawn criticism because of her husband’s business practices.

A late-breaking revelation that Horten's husband ‘profited from the situation’ of Jewish department store owners starting in 1936 did not hamper bidding. Price Database. 12 June 2025.

The 700-piece private jewellery collection of the late Austrian billionaire Heidi Horten, the world's largest and most valuable collection of its kind to come to auction, could sell for more than ...

Bowing to months of international pressure, Christie’s said it will not continue the sale of jewels from the estate of Heidi Horten. In May, the auction house sold a record-setting $202 million ...

The first two parts of the Heidi Horten collection were sold in Geneva May 10 and 12, for a record-breaking $202.1 million hammer price, smashing the previous record for the most valuable jewelry ...