Billionaire Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, 53, pregnant with twins

Louis Dreyfus Commodities has said that its 53-year-old Swiss billionaire chair is pregnant with twin girls. Margarita Louis-Dreyfus is due in early April and will only take a “brief break” from work, before returning later that month.

Russian-born Louis-Dreyfus became one of the richest women in the world after she married famous French businessman Robert Louis-Dreyfus, in 1992, and had three children with him.

She took over his company, and the Olympique de Marseille football team, on his death, from leukaemia, in 2009.