Pierre Philippe Alexandre Lagrange (born 15 March 1962) is a Belgian economist, hedge fund manager, financier, and a co-founder of GLG Partners. His net worth is estimated at £500 million according to The Sunday Times.
In 2013, Lagrange purchased the Savile Row tailor Huntsman.Jon Holt, Interview with Pierre Lagrange , The Bespoke Gent, 10 June 2013
In September 2011, he and his wife Catherine Anspach, with whom he has three sons, announced their divorce. The divorce settlement was estimated at more than £160 million. The London Telegraph: "Hedge fund boss faces £160m divorce settlement after leaving wife for male fashion designer" By Heidi Blake September 5, 2011 He married his husband Ebs Burnough in 2019.
In November 2011, Lagrange sued the Knoedler gallery, New York, for selling him a fake Jackson Pollock painting.
He owned the Grade II listed Woodperry House in Oxfordshire, before downsizing in 2006 to a country house in Hampshire. In August 2011 he also reportedly sold a house at 17 Kensington Palace Gardens to the Russian-born billionaire Roman Abramovich, for £90 million.Lawrence Hall, Abramovich be eyeing a Kensington Palace Gardens home?, Zoopla, 18 August 2011
Lagrange spoke of his opposition to Brexit in a 2019 interview with the Financial Times, characterising the 2016 vote as a "red herring" compared to wider problems facing the UK.
/ref> They live between Monaco, London, Hampshire and New York. His fourth child was born in 2020.
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