Antenor Patiño Rodríguez (12 October 1896, in

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– 2 February 1982, in New York City) was a Bolivian

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, heir to his father Simón I. Patiño, called "the King of Tin".

Family

He married firstly in Paris on 8 April 1931 ''

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'' María Cristina de Borbón y Bosch-Labrús (

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, 15 May 1913 – 28 July 2002), 3rd

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of Dúrcal, a relative of Spanish monarch

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. The couple had two daughters: * ''Doña'' María Cristina Patiño y Borbón (b. Paris, 2 August 1932), who married three times with: **1) Marc Charles Louis Joseph Marie, 7th Prince of Beauvau-Craon (Paris, 3 February 1921 – Château d'Haroué, 21 November 1982) in Paris on 11 December 1952, later divorced. Had two daughters: ***Princess Marie Isabelle de Beauvau-Craon (born 6 November 1953) married first to Duncan Hugh McLaren in 1978, without issue, and secondly in 1986 to Javier Botana, nephew of Natalio Botana, with issue. ***Princess Marie ''Diane'' de Beauvau-Craon (born 20 August 1955) was married to Ahmed Mohamadialal. She and Ahmed Mohamadialal were divorced in 1985. Have issue. **2) Ernst Schneider, and had one daughter: ***Maria Christine Schneider (born 1963) married Patrick-Olivier Picourt in 1987. **3) Kristo Kurteff, without issue. * ''Doña'' María Isabel Patiño y Borbón (Paris, 3 June 1936 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, 15 May 1954) who had a short and tragic marriage with: **Sir

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(Paris, 26 February 1933 –

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, 18 July 1997), by whom she had one daughter: ***Isabel Goldsmith (born 1954) married

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in 1973. She and de Rosnay were divorced in 1975, without issue. He married secondly in London,

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, on 8 January 1960 ''Contessa'' Beatriz di Rovasenda ''née'' de Rivera y Digeon (1911-2009), former wife of

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ese Count Giovanni Lodovico di Rovasenda (1905-1986), without issue. From this marriage he had two stepdaughters, born from Beatriz's first marriage to ''Conte'' di Rovasenda: * ''

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'' Isabella Manuela di Rovasenda (b.

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, 20 June 1936). She married Count Henri-Jean

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in 1960 and they divorced in 1979. Have issue. * ''donna'' Maria Elena di Rovasenda. She married Pierre Le Blan in February 1956. They later divorced.

Business

In 1947, he made a successful effort to rid his company of organized labor. The Bolivian Revolution of 1952 nationalised Patiño's mines and it is claimed that his heir Antenor Patiño had his hand in the

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that deposed the leader of the revolution, then President

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, in the 1960s. With his fortune, amongst other things, he developed tourist destinations like Las Hadas, in Manzanillo, Mexico, (where the movie '' 10'' starring actress

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was filmed) and Las Alamandas in Jalisco state, also in Mexico.

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