Louise Blouin Net Worth 2024

Louise Blouin
Louise Blouin, 2015
Born	Louise Thérèse Blouin 1958 or 1959 (age 65–66)[1] Dorval, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Magazine publisher
Known for	Louise Blouin Media
Spouses	David MacDonald Stewart John MacBain Mathew Kabatoff

Louise Thérèse Viger Blouin (born 1958/59) is a Canadian magazine publisher. She is owner of Louise Blouin Media, which she founded.^[2]

Blouin was born in Dorval, a suburb of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada, the youngest of six children of Edouard Blouin and Yolande Viger Blouin, who owned and operated a life insurance brokerage.^[3][4][5] Her father died when she was fifteen. She appeared as the representative of Canada at the International Debutante Ball in January 1978.^[4] She studied commerce at McGill University for a year, and later transferred to Concordia University. She did not graduate.^[6] She worked as a stock analyst and as a stockbroker.^[1]

In the early 1980s, Blouin married David MacDonald Stewart, a member of the Canadian MacDonald tobacco family. The marriage was annulled within a year.^[1]

Blouin later married John MacBain and the couple acquired Auto Hebdo, a classified car trading magazine, in 1987. The business grew into Trader Classified Media. Although the couple separated in 2000, Blouin did not sell her remaining shareholding until 2004.^[7] After the separation she became chief executive of the London auction house Phillips de Pury, owned by her new companion Simon de Pury; in December 2002, after a year, she resigned.^[7] She started Louise Blouin Media in 2003, and moved into art publications, including Art+Auction, sold by the LVMH group.^[3]

In 2005 Blouin started the Louise T. Blouin Foundation, an international organisation for creativity and the arts.^[8] In October 2006 the foundation opened the Louise T. Blouin Institute in Shepherd's Bush in west London.^[1]

Blouin married Mathew Kabatoff, who worked for the Louise Blouin Foundation, in France in June 2011.^[2][9]

In 2016, her name appeared in the Panama Papers as registered owner of five companies in the British Virgin Islands.^[10] She commented, "I didn't even know. . . It is not relevant. It is not because you are in the Panama list that you did something wrong. You are the one informing me about that. You can't assume everyone with a BVI [company] has done something wrong".^[11][12]

In 2023, Blouin's La Dune home in the Hamptons sold for $89 million.^[3] The property on Gin Lane in Southampton had been listed for as much as $150 million in 2022.^[13][14]

Blouin lives in Switzerland.^[11]

In 1993 Blouin was one of approximately 200 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" listed by the World Economic Forum, a Swiss foundation.^[15]