Michelle Celia Icahn: Inside the Life of Carl Icahn's daughter

May 2024 · 4 minute read

Michelle Celia Icahn is the daughter of Carl Icahn. Michelle Celia Icahn’s father is one of Wall Street’s most successful investors and has been shaking up corporate America for decades. Her father is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a public company, and diversified conglomerate holding company based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. His famous business model is to take large stakes in companies that he believes will appreciate changes to corporate policy. Carl Icahn is worth  5.7 billion USD per Forbes.

Michelle Celia Icahn: Bio Summary

Full NameMichelle Celia Icahn
famous asCarl Icahn’s daughter
Age41 years old as of 2023
Date of Birth1982
Place of Birth United States of America
Zodiac signN/A
NationalityAmerican
EthnicityCaucasian
Siblings Brett Icahn
ParentsCarl Icahn, Liba Trejbal

Who is Carl Icahn’s daughter?

Michelle Celia Icahn was born in 1982 in the United States of America. As of 2023, she is 41 years old. Michelle is the daughter of Carl Icahn and his first wife Liba Trejbal. She is not the only child of her parents- She has an elder brother whose name is  Brett Icahn.

ALSO, READ; Liba Trejbal: Where Is Carl Icahn’s Ex-wife Now?

In the summer of 1978, Icahn, then 41 years old, met Liba Trejbal, a 28-year-old ballerina from the former Czechoslovakia. Things got started between the couple as they developed feelings for one another. Trejbal became pregnant eight months later and Icahn offered to marry her if she signed a prenuptial agreement that gave her one and a half million dollars a year, a small fraction of his wealth per the New Yorker.

They were married in March 1979 and separated in 1993. In October 1993, Liba filed for divorce and sued to invalidate the prenuptial agreement, claiming she signed it under duress due to the pregnancy. After a nasty behind-the-scenes dispute, Icahn settled, to avoid a public trial and embarrassment to his children. The divorce was settled in July 1999 and he moved on and got married to his longtime assistant and former broker, Gail Golden.

ALSO, READ; Gail Icahn: Inside the Life of Carl Icahn’s wife?

Michelle Celia Icahn works for her father

Michelle just like her elder brother has worked for her father as well as pursuing a career as a school teacher per Efinancialcareers. The outlet revealed Michelle’s husband works for Icahn too. Aside from work, Michelle Celia Icahn also goes on Vacation with her father, her stepmother, and siblings. The Icahns often spend vacations on a hundred-and-eighty-foot yacht that the billionaire owns.

Though she is the daughter of a famous Billionaire, Michelle Celia Icahn has been very private about most aspects of her life. Though not much is known about her, there are clear pieces of evidence that show she has a very close relationship with her famous father.

Michelle’s father, Icahn has been working Wall Street since the 1960s, but it wasn’t until the 1980s that he gained his reputation as a ruthless activist investor, taking a controlling interest in companies like TimeWarner, TWA, and Blockbuster.

During his career, the billionaire has taken undervalued stocks, targeted firms, and called for change within some of the biggest companies on the planet, earning him a reputation— and a lot of money along the way. During his career, he has taken undervalued stocks, targeted firms, and called for change within some of the biggest companies on the planet, earning him a reputation— and a lot of money along the way.

The investor’s approach has vastly been the same throughout his life, his current wife, Gail Golden-Icahn, says in an HBO documentary, Icahn: The Restless Billionaire. But he isn’t driven by money. “You’d think it would be money,” she says. “He just becomes obsessed on something and keeps like a bulldog—and he just keeps going and going until he gets what he wants.” “I made this money because the system is so bad,” Michelle Celia Icahn’s father also said in the Documentary. “Not because I’m a genius“, the Sun reported

Michelle Celia Icahn’s father, a med school dropout himself, has donated about $ 200 million to what has now been named the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He has also developed charter schools in the Bronx, established The Children’s Rescue Fund organization, and much more in the way of philanthropy.

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