Jose Roberto Marinho – Family, Family Tree

Jose Roberto Marinho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 26th December 1955. He is a successful businessman and seated in Editorial Board as a Chairman and is the Vice President of Grupo Globo organization. In the beginning of his career, he started working as a journalist for O-Globo newspaper.

Within the 1990s he entered as one of the board members for Globo Organization with his two other brothers. Jose works as the Philanthropy of his family business Roberto Marinho Foundation.

The foundation works to help cultural causes and supports educational issues in Brazil. With the moving of Grupo Globo the business established to the largest broadcaster known as Rede Globo. The other business is Infoglobo is the largest company that publishes a newspaper. Globosat is the Latin America’s biggest provider of Pay TV. Jose is also considered as one the richest person in whole Brazil next to his two other brothers.

Jose Roberto Marinho’s Grand Parents:

Roberto Pisani Marinho was the founder of Globo group of a newspaper publisher. He was born in Brazil on 19th July 1876. From the starting of his career, he was workaholic and always looking to a great future. In the starting of his career, he was working as a reviewer for Rui Barbosa. Later he was working for A Tribuna which was a newspaper company.
He was married to Francisca Pisani in 1903 and both had 6 children. To provide proper education to his children he started to work harder. His first newspaper was circulated in 1924 and it got a reputation from since then. Just after 25 days from publishing his first newspaper he died due to a heart attack in his bathroom.

Jose Roberto Marinho’s Parents:

Roberto Pisani Marinho had married thrice in his life. All his children were born from his first wife Stella Goulart. His first marriage was held in 1946 and it only lasted for 24 years. Even after being separated the couple was having a friendly relationship with each other. His second wife was Ruth Albuquerque from 1971 to 1991. Third wife Lily Marinho had won Miss France competition. With his work, he was able to expand the family business of newspaper to Television and Radio. The business expanded so beautifully that it took over Brazil in a short span of time. Unfortunately, in 6th August 2003, Jose took his last breath.