Wilmer Ruperti

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wilmer Ruperti
Occupation	Shipowner
Date Of Birth	Dec 7, 1959(1959-12-07)
Age	65
Country	Venezuela
Birth City	Caracas
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Wilmer Ruperti Biography

Wilmer Ruperti is one of the most popular and richest Shipowner who was born on December 7, 1959 in Caracas, Venezuela. Wilmer Ruperti (born on December 7th 1959) is a native of Venezuela and a shipping magnate. Since 2003, he’s taken a large part of the market physical exports of oil out of Venezuela into the remainder of Latin America, and has become one of Venezuela’s most successful individuals.

in December of 2006 The Wall Street Journal featured Ruperti who has Italian origin and stated that he was a supporter of Chavez because he’s “the only person who has identified himself with the poor”. The article also discussed Ruperti’s lifestyle and noted that the he is a shrewd businessman, has two South Korean bodyguards, moves around Caracas in a bulletproof BMW and has an aircraft that is private and, in 2005, he sponsored an event for charity at Caracas featuring Luciano Pavarotti. Ruperti is an avid golfer and has started an academy for young golfers in Caracas.

At an unreported date, Ruperti bought two gold-plated Napoleonic-era pistols which were once owned by Simón Bolívar, the Venezuelan-born Latin American 19th Century independence hero, at an auction in New York, for $1.6m. It was later reported that he planned to donate the pistols to the Venezuelan government, but Ruperti denied this in his Wall Street Journal interview, saying he would leave them to his children. However, Venezuelan President, Hugo Chávez Frías confirmed that he received the pistols in national TV on July 2011. In said video, President Chávez states clearly that Ruperti “donated” the pistols.

On October 11, 2016; Ruperti is said to have paid for the legal defence of two people accused of trying to smuggle cocaine to the United States from Haiti, these two people are Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas, both nephews of the Venezuelan first lady Cilia Flores, wife of president Nicolas Maduro, Efraín and Franqui are represented by Randall W. Jackson, John T. Zach, Joanna Wright of the legal firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP; and David M. Rody, Michael D. Mann, Elizabeth Espinosa, from Sidley Austin LLP; all who have confirmed that he is the person paying for the defence of the two suspected drug traffickers.

Lloyd’s List International described Ruperti in 2004 as a man who changed himself from a ship’s captain to one of the top players of Venezuela’s oil billion dollar industry and said the publication noted that “everything Wilmer Ruperti touches appears to turn to gold”.

Wilmer Ruperti Net Worth

Wilmer Ruperti is one of the richest Shipowner from Venezuela. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wilmer Ruperti 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ruperti’s journey to the top began in 1987 when he was an oil tanker master with the Venezuelan oil company Maraven, S.A., an subsidiary from Venezuela’s national oil corporation, Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA). Later, he went on to study the shipping industry from Plymouth, England, before returning to Caracas, Venezuela, to establish his own shipbroking company.

Ruperti’s biggest breakthrough in the shipping industry occurred in the latter half of 2002, when he began shipping gas to Venezuelan ports, via tankers chartered by Russia in the Venezuelan general strike in 2002-2003 that was characterized by a strike by thousands of workers at PDVSA.

Ruperti’s ship-owning company, Suramericana de Transportes de Petróleo, owns a fleet of oil tankers and other vessels, and his ship management business is called Global Ship Management. Ruperti has become deeply involved in Chávez’s policy of shipping discounted oil to Argentina and numerous countries in the Caribbean. The Venezuelan business news portal Descifrado.com reported in June 2006 that Ruperti was setting up a maritime investment fund, and was planning to raise $500m for the construction of eight new oil tankers.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Wilmer Ruperti Dating?

According to our records, Wilmer Ruperti married to Anastasia Mazzone. As of December 1, 2023, Wilmer Ruperti’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Wilmer Ranked on the list of most popular Shipowner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Venezuela. Wilmer Ruperti celebrates birthday on December 7 of every year.