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| Elena Ford | |
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| Born | Elena Anne Ford-Niarchos 1966 |
| Residence | Grosse Pointe Farms |
| Occupation | Ford Motor Company Director of Global marketing |
Elena Ford (born Elena Anne Ford-Niarchos in 1966) is the daughter of Charlotte Ford, an heiress to the Ford Motor Company fortune, and the Greek shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos. She is a granddaughter of Henry Ford II. She currently plays a major role in Ford Motor Company taking role of Director of Global marketing for the company as a whole. She is responsible for marketing, product management and sales support activities for Ford Motor Company around the world. She is the first female family member to work directly for the company her great-great grandfather founded in 1903.[citation needed] She is also a former stepdaughter of Edward R. Downe Jr., the founder and chairman of Downe Communications in New York.
Personal life
In 1991, Ford-Niarchos (as she was then known) married Stanley Jozef Olender, the owner of Stanley O's, an estate maintenance service in Southampton, New York. In 1996, after divorcing Olender, she married Joseph Daniel Rippolone, a plumber, mechanic, builder, and inventor. They have six children together. In 2008 Joseph Rippolone and Elena Ford divorced by mutual agreement. Though the divorce proceedings lasted a year, they remain friends. [1] Elena remains in Grosse Pointe Farms with their four younger children while Joseph lives in Harrison Township with their two older children, Jillian and Joseph Jr. Both of Joseph Rippolone's older children attend Providence College in Rhode Island. Joseph, Jr has interned at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI four years in a row and has most recently interned with Team Detroit, Ford Motor Company's Advertising Agency, in the past . The four younger children attend a small private school in Grosse Pointe Farms.
In 1997 Elena Ford was involved in a dispute with her half-siblings by her father's third wife, Eugenia Livanos. Stavros Niarchos stipulated in his will that no one has the right to touch his billions until the year 2009, and two Swiss court decisions have effectively bound the hands of the Niarchos heirs from any inheritance. With the Ford family fortune and the Niarchos money, Elena Ford's estimated worth is clearly in the tens if not hundreds of millions.
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