Leïla Mezian Benjelloun
Moroccan physician and businesswoman and the wife of billionaire Othman Benjelloun
About Leïla Mezian Benjelloun
Lived 1938 – 2024 (aged 85–86). Leïla Mezian Benjelloun was a Moroccan businessperson, physician and philanthropist.
Leïla Mezian Benjelloun (1938 – 13 July 2024) was a Moroccan physician and businesswoman. She was best known as the wife of billionaire Othman Benjelloun.
Early life Mezian was the daughter of Moroccan marshal Mohamed Meziane. She was born in Valencia and grew up in Spain.
Career Benjelloun was president of the BMCE Bank Foundation for Education and Environment.
In October 2017, she laid the foundation stone of a museum being built at the junction of Moulay Youssef Boulevard and Roudani Boulevard in Casablanca. The building is 26 meters high and was budgeted to cost 79 million MAD. The building was completed in 2018.
Personal life and death In 1960, she married Othman Benjelloun. Together they had two children; Dounia, a film producer, and Kamal, an anthropologist and environmentalist.
Benjelloun died on 13 July 2024.
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Who was Leïla Mezian Benjelloun?
Moroccan physician and businesswoman and the wife of billionaire Othman Benjelloun
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Leïla Mezian Benjelloun was born in 1938 in Valencia.
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Leïla Mezian Benjelloun died on 13 July 2024.
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Leïla Mezian Benjelloun was a businessperson, physician and philanthropist.
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Leïla Mezian Benjelloun was Moroccan.
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