{"id":8912,"date":"2026-06-23T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/8912\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:15:12","slug":"billionaire-pharma-heir-leaves-riches-to-mystery-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/8912\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Pharma Heir Leaves Riches to Mystery Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">One of the billionaire heirs behind French drugmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/IPN:FP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Ipsen SA<\/a> has left his $4 billion fortune to a Luxembourg charity and an offshore trust, clouding the outlook for the company\u2019s long-term control and ownership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The succession plan of Henri Beaufour, a grandson of the firm\u2019s founder who died childless last year at the age of 60, began taking effect earlier this month, according to corporate filings. His holding was transferred to a foundation and new governance structure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the billionaire heirs behind French drugmaker Ipsen SA has left his $4 billion fortune to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2665,2668,2664,2663,5,138,166,1218,2343,2667,2666],"class_list":["post-8912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-luxembourg","tag-billionaires","tag-caribbean","tag-curacao","tag-ipsen","tag-luxembourg","tag-markets","tag-media","tag-paris","tag-pharmaceutical","tag-voting-rights","tag-wealth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@lu\/116799846887302340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}