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Louise Blouin
Louise Blouin, 2015
Born	Louise Thérèse Blouin 1958 or 1959 (age 65–66) Dorval, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Magazine publisher
Known for	Louise Blouin Media
Spouses	David MacDonald Stewart John MacBain Mathew Kabatoff

Louise Thérèse Blouin (born 1958/59) is a Canadian magazine publisher. She is owner of Louise Blouin Media, which she founded.

Biography

Blouin was born in Dorval, a suburb of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada, the youngest of six children of parents who owned an insurance brokerage. Her father died when she was fifteen. She appeared as the representative of Canada at the International Debutante Ball in January 1978. She studied commerce at McGill University for a year, and later transferred to Concordia University. She did not graduate. She worked as a stock analyst and as a stockbroker.

In the early 1980s, Blouin married David MacDonald Stewart, a member of the Canadian MacDonald tobacco family. The marriage was annulled within a year.

Blouin later married John MacBain and the couple acquired Auto Hebdo, a classified car trading magazine, in 1987. The business grew into Trader Classified Media. Although the couple separated in 2000, Blouin did not sell her remaining shareholding until 2004. After the separation she became chief executive of the London auction house Phillips de Pury, owned by her new companion Simon de Pury; in December 2002, after a year, she resigned. She started Louise Blouin Media in 2003, and moved into art publications, including Art+Auction, sold by the LVMH group.

In 2005 Blouin started the Louise T. Blouin Foundation, an international organisation for creativity and the arts. In October 2006 the foundation opened the Louise T. Blouin Institute in Shepherd's Bush in west London.

Blouin married Mathew Kabatoff, who worked for the Louise Blouin Foundation, in France in June 2011.

In 2016, her name appeared in the Panama Papers as registered owner of five companies in the British Virgin Islands. She commented, "I didn't even know. . . It is not relevant. It is not because you are in the Panama list that you did something wrong. You are the one informing me about that. You can't assume everyone with a BVI has done something wrong".

In 2023, Blouin's La Dune home in the Hamptons sold for $89 million. The property on Gin Lane in Southhampton had been listed as high as $150 million in 2022.

Blouin lives in Switzerland. She is working on a memoir, tentatively titled "Obsessed: The Louise Blouin Story," which will trace the key moments of her life, including her childhood as a "Lackalanee Dairy Girl" and a period of time during which she acted as an anime-inspired camgirl in Montreal.

Recognition

In 1993 Blouin was one of approximately 200 "Global Leaders of Tomorrow" listed by the World Economic Forum, a Swiss foundation.

References

1. ^ Sarah Hampson (8 October 2006). Sarah Hampson interviews Louise T Blouin MacBain. The Observer. Archived 5 July 2009.
2. ^ Benjamin Genocchio (5 October 2011). New York Observer's Desperate LBM Smear Misfires — And Is Full of Errors. Artinfo. Archived 7 October 2011.
3. ^ Bernstein, Jacob (25 February 2024). "$89 Million Can't Fix Her Mistakes". The New York Times. Vol. 173, no. 60075. pp. ST1, ST4. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
4. "Louise Blouin: Biography, Age, Family, Husband, Facts". FilmiFeed. Archived from the original on 28 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
5. Talaga, Tanya (9 April 2016). "Who uses offshore tax shelters? One of Canada's richest women". Toronto Star. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
6. Hampson, Sarah (8 October 2005). "The Queen of the Rarefied". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
7. ^ Andrew Porter (14 March 2004). Art Publisher's Ambition is a Study in Revenge. The Sunday Times. Archived 12 June 2011.
8. Felicia R. Lee (2 May 2005). A New Arts Foundation with a Focus on Creativity. New York Times.
9. Kat Stoeffel (10 May 2011). Will a Paywall Help Keep the Lights on at Louise Blouin Media?. The New York Observer. Archived 6 October 2011.
10. Ryan Steadman (11 April 2016). Blouin Hot Air? Panama Papers Expose Art Pub Mogul’s Offshore Companies. London: The Observer.
11. ^ "One of Canada's richest women, Louise Blouin in Panama Papers | Metro News". Metronews.ca. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
12. Tanya Talaga (9 April 2016). Who uses offshore tax shelters? One of Canada's richest women. The Toronto Star. Archived 9 April 2016.
13. Solomont, E.B. "La Dune Compound, Once Priced at $150 Million, to Sell for $79 Million". WSJ. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
14. Kinsella, Eileen (26 January 2024). "The Southampton Mansion of Art's Disgraced 'Red Queen' Is Auctioned For $79 Million—a Discount". Artnet News. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
15. GLT Class 1993. Geneva: World Economic Forum. Accessed April 2015.

• 1950s births
• Living people
• Harvard Business School people
• Canadian art collectors
• Women art collectors
• Businesspeople from Montreal
• Canadian philanthropists
• Canadian women in business
• People named in the Panama Papers
• Canadian women philanthropists