Who is the Baron de Rothschild?

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Why: Kevin West wrote a piece for W on his famed mistress, Madame Dandois.

Answer: Élie de Rothschild was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family. He followed his father as a partner in the family bank, de Rothschild Frères, and ran the Château Lafite-Rothschild premier cru claret vineyard from 1946 to 1974.

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: Both he and his brother Alain were captured by the Germans close during WWII. Élie was taken to a POW camp near Hamburg. As persons of Jewish descent, both were fortunate in being treated as captured officers, thus avoiding the extermination camps.