10 Things you should know about Isabel dos Santos

Isabel dos Santos is widely known as the founder of Miami Beach Club. Here are 10 Things you should know about Isabel dos Santos.

1. Isabel dos Santos was born on 20 April 1973.
2. She is an Angolan businesswoman.
3. She is Africa’s richest woman and the eldest child of Angola’s former President José Eduardo dos Santos.
4. In 2013, according to Forbes, her net worth had exceeded US$2 billion making her Africa’s first female US dollar billionaire.
5. In November 2015, the BBC named dos Santos as one of the 100 most influential women in the world.
6. The Angolan Government has been trying to prosecute Isabel dos Santos for past corruption crimes that may have led to Angola’s ongoing recession crisis since 2018.
7. She remains in exile in Portugal. 
8. On 30 December 2019, the Luanda Provincial Court ordered the freezing of dos Santos’s Angolan bank accounts and the seizure of her stake in local companies, including Unitel and Banco de Fomento Angola .
9. Shes has characterized the charges against her as “…trumped-up charges … which were based on fabricated documents.”
10. She describes the seizures of her assets as a “politically motivated attack”