Antenor Patiño Rodríguez (12 October 1896, in Oruro, Bolivia – 2 February 1982, in New York City) was a

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

Family

He married firstly in

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on 8 April 1931 '' Doña'' María Cristina de Borbón y Bosch-Labrús (

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, 15 May 1913 – 28 July 2002), 3rd Duchess of Dúrcal, a relative of King of Spain

Alfonso XIII Alfonso XIII (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; French language, French: ''Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon''; 17 May ...

. The couple had two daughters: * ''Doña'' María Cristina Patiño y Borbón, 4th Duchess of Dúrcal (b. Paris, 2 August 1932), who married three times with: *# 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

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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. *# Ernst Schneider, and had one daughter: *#*Maria Christine Schneider (born 1963) married Patrick-Olivier Picourt in 1987. *# Kristo Kurteff, without issue. * ''Doña'' María Isabel Patiño y Borbón (Paris, 3 June 1936 –

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, 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; married January 1954), by whom she had one daughter: ***Isabel Goldsmith (born 1954) married 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'' : * '' Don (honorific), donna'' Isabella Manuela di Rovasenda (b.

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, 20 June 1936). She married Count Henri-Jean de Castellane 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 military coup 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

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state, also in Mexico.

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El Virrey de Bolivia

1896 births 1982 deaths 20th-century Bolivian businesspeople People from Oruro, Bolivia Bolivian socialites Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Bolivian businesspeople in mining {{Bolivia-business-bio-stub