Isabel dos Santos is Africa’s wealthiest woman. She almost certainly got that way through corrupt means.
Her father, José Eduardo dos Santos, ruled Angola from 1979 until 2017, and she made her money mostly from companies that were doing business with her father’s government. Her case has recently been of intense interest to the American press thanks to the work of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and it is a difficult story to resist: Until recently, she was an ornament of the glamour mob, swanning from Davos to Cannes while spending millions of dollars at European fashion houses, nearly $1 million at Dolce & Gabbana alone. Some husbands buy their wives a piece of jewelry — hers bought a piece of De Grisogono, the Swiss jeweler, exploiting his connection to the Angolan state-run diamond company.
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