Mouna Ayoud

Mouna Ayoub is a woman of Christian Lebanese origin. When she was 20 years old she converted to Islam to marry a businessman 40 years old. After eighteen years of marriage she left Saudi Arabia and made a fortune in the real estate business.

In 1997 she bought the boat of Bernard Tapie, "Phocéa" for 5.56 million euros to which were added 18.25 million euros of work. To carry out this operation Mouna sold some jewels including one of the largest yellow diamonds of the world (112.53 carats) for a price of 2.52 million euros (16.5 million francs) and a collar of Bulgari (5.3 million francs). Mouna Ayoub has owned since the beginning of the 1980s the largest private collection of haute couture, composed of more than 1,000 items, which she continues to enlarge each season, supporting thus in particular many creative young people.