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Shlomo Moussaieff (b. 1925) is an Israeli multimillionaire of Bukharan Jewish descent who has lived in London since 1963.1Founder of Moussaieff Jewellers Ltd., he and his wife and business partner , Alisa, were ranked No. 315 on the Sunday Times Rich List 2011 , with a fortune estimated at £ 220 million (US$352.6 million).2Moussaieff made most of his fortune selling precious jewellery to international royalty and high society, especially Arabs from Saudi Arabia and Persian Gulf states.3 In addition, Moussaieff is regarded as one of the world's top private collectors of antiquities associated with the Bible and ancient Near East , with a collection of 60,000 artefacts.
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Shlomo Moussaieff (born 1922) is an Israeli millionaire of Bukharian Jewish descent who has lived in London since the early 1960s. He is the son of Rehavia Moussaieff , and grandson of Shlomo Moussaieff of Bukhara . He made most of his fortune by selling precious jewelry to international royalty and high society, especially Saudis and Persian Gulf Arab States. The average price of a necklace in his store, located in the Hilton hotel in London's Mayfair district, is over a million dollars.
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Israeli jewelry dealer and antiquities collector Shlomo Moussaieff (1925 – July 1, 2015) was an Israeli jeweler, of Bukharan Jewish descent, who was the grandson of the wealthy gemstone trader Rabbi Moussaieff from Uzbekistan . Founder of Moussaieff Jewellers Ltd., he and his wife and business partner , Alisa, were ranked No. 315 on the Sunday Times Rich List 2011 , with a fortune estimated at £220 million. Moussaieff produced precious jewellery for international royalty and high society, including Western royalty as well as those from Saudi Arabia and Persian Gulf states. In addition, Moussaieff was regarded as one of the world's top private collectors of antiquities associated with the Bible and ancient Near East , with a collection of 60,000 artefacts.
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Israeli jewelry dealer and antiquities collector Shlomo Moussaieff (1925 – July 1, 2015) was an Israeli jeweler, of Bukharan Jewish descent. He was the grandson of the gemstone trader Rabbi Moussaieff from Uzbekistan . Founder of Moussaieff Jewellers Ltd., he and his wife Alisa were ranked No. 315 on the Sunday Times Rich List 2011 , with a fortune estimated at £220 million. In addition, he was regarded as one of the world's top private collectors of antiquities associated with the Bible and ancient Near East , with a collection of 60,000 artefacts.
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Israeli jewelry dealer and antiquities collector Shlomo Moussaieff ( Hebrew : שלמה מוסאיוף ; 1925 – July 1, 2015) was an Israeli jeweler. Founder of Moussaieff Jewellers Ltd., he and his wife Alisa were ranked No. 315 on the Sunday Times Rich List 2011 , with a fortune estimated at £220 million. In addition, he was regarded as one of the world's top private collectors of antiquities associated with the Bible and ancient Near East , with a collection of 60,000 artefacts.
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israeli jeweler
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