Alicia Ratcliffe: Who is Jim Ratcliffe’s first wife?

Alicia Ratcliffe is an ex-wife of Monaco-based British billionaire chemical engineer turned financier and industrialist Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

Prior to meeting Jim Ratcliffe, Alicia was usually generally known as Maria Alessia Maresca.

Alicia was an Italian tax lawyer.

Details about the exact date Alicia and Jim Ratcliffe got married is currently unavailable.

However, Alicia Ratcliffe is believed to be the second partner of Jim after his divorce from his first partner Amanda Townson.

Alicia and Jim Ratcliffe couple appear to have been married throughout the mid-Nineteen Nineties after his divorce from his first partner.

Alicia and Jim Ratcliffe have a daughter together. However, the identity of the daughter has not been disclosed.

Jim Ratcliffe/ Image Credits: EurosportHer ex-husband Jim Ratcliffe on the other hand, is a well-known billionaire.

Jim Ratcliffe is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Ineos chemicals group, which he founded in 1998.

Ratcliffe owns two-thirds of the Ineos chemicals group, which was estimated to have a turnover of $15 billion in 2019.

Ratcliffe does not have a high public profile, and as a result, has been described by The Sunday Times as “publicity shy”.

As of May 2018, Ratcliffe was the richest person in the UK, with a net worth of £21.05 billion.

As of April 2020, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated Ratcliffe’s net worth at $28.2 billion, making him the 55th richest in the world and second in the UK, behind Sir Len Blavatnik.

As of 2022, Ratcliffe’s net worth is estimated at $16.1 billion.