Kerzner, who is survived by his children Andrea, Beverley, Brandon and Chantal and ten grandchildren, will be laid to rest at a private funeral with only immediate family in attendance. Say YAY and Save! Worry-Free Beach Vacations in Cancun.
More by Patrick Clarke. Virtuoso Welcomes Two New Executives. Click here to learn more. He celebrated his birthday on August 23, every year and his birth sign is Virgo. He died in his home surrounded by his beloved ones. His death came following a long battle with cancer. Kerzner will be remembered for the legacy he has left in the hotel industry.
Kerzner was a highly educated and qualified person. He was also a qualified Chartered Accountant. His parents owned and operated a chain of kosher hotels. She committed suicide soon after the birth of her second child. His third wife was Miss World Anneline Kriel who they divorced after five years.
His fourth wife was model Heather Murphy who he married in but they divorced in Until his death, he never remarried. Kerzner was a father of five children from different mothers. While growing up, he was not the most built kid, and so he became an easy target for bullies. To defend himself, he decided to learn boxing, something he would later be involved in professionally for a little while.
His parents made their own living running a small fruit business before they later joined the hotel business by buying one on the beachfront. Sol first helped them in running their hotels before he later joined the business. His company, Kerzner International now owns quite a lot of property including the lavish Atlantis hotel and casino resort in the Bahamas. As a young man, he was more interested in working on cars, but his father, Morris Kerzner advised him to, instead, go to the university.
The billionaire left South Africa at some point when faced with charges of alleged bribery. He focused then on the Caribbean and the United States. His success after his tainted reputation was hard-won but he prevailed nonetheless. The South African tycoon might have been a success with finances, but he was so much with his marital life as he was married a total of four times during his lifetime.
The first woman he got married to was Maureen Adler Kerzner. Unfortunately, the union ended in divorce. His next marriage was to Shirley Bestbier in The two remained together until when Shirly ended her life shortly after the birth of their second child together. Although reasons for the suicide have not been revealed, it was claimed that Sol never got over her until his death.
The marriage only lasted 5 years before ending in Sol Kerzner married a fourth and final time to glamorous American-born socialite Heather Murphy in Incidentally, it was not the first marriage for both of them as Heather was once married to an Englishman, Charlie Murphy, and had two kids before the union ended.
Heather and Sol would be together for 11 years even with an age difference of 34 between them. The irony was that shortly after she turned 40, Sol started making jokes that he had never gone out with a woman in her 40s and not long afterward, the American born filed for divorce as a result of what she described as unreasonable behavior. Heather made millions from the divorce, even though she was hard hit. Unfortunately, she would go on to experience a sharp fall in her fortune following an investment that went sour.
From all his marriages, Kerzner had 5 kids. In , tragedy struck when Sol lost his first son, Butch Kerzner in a helicopter crash.
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