en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Magon_de_La_Villehuchet
3 corrections found
Saint-Malo, France
Official records identify his birthplace as Paris, not Saint-Malo.
Full reasoning
An official Luxembourg notarial publication for a company director appointment identifies Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet as "born on April 23, 1943, in Paris, France." A separate death-record listing based on French civil-status data likewise says he was "né à Paris 16e arrondissement" on 23 April 1943. Saint-Malo was his family’s place of origin, but the cited records contradict the article’s statement that his birthplace was Saint-Malo.
2 sources
- Mémorial C, Recueil des Sociétés et Associations (Luxembourg official publication)
"Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, born on April 23, 1943, in Paris, France" (director appointment details).
- Acte de décès aux États-Unis pour l'année 2008
Lists René Thierry Marie Magon de La Villehuchet as deceased in 2008 and "né à Paris 16e arrondissement le 23 avril 1943."
René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet was born in Saint-Malo
Records identify Paris as his birthplace, not Saint-Malo.
Full reasoning
The article’s prose repeats the same birthplace error found in the infobox. An official Luxembourg corporate filing names him as "born on April 23, 1943, in Paris, France," and a French death-record listing derived from civil-status data says he was born in Paris’s 16th arrondissement on that same date. Those records contradict the claim that he was born in Saint-Malo.
2 sources
- Acte de décès aux États-Unis pour l'année 2008
Lists René Magon de La Villehuchet as "né à Paris 16e arrondissement le 23 avril 1943."
- Mémorial C, Recueil des Sociétés et Associations (Luxembourg official publication)
"Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, born on April 23, 1943, in Paris, France, residing professionally, 509 Madison Avenue..."
Later, he founded Access International Advisors, a research analyst investment agency that specialized in managing hedged and structured investment portfolios that involve commercial physical and biological research.
Primary-source descriptions of Access International Advisors say it was a hedge-fund platform and investment adviser, not a firm involved in 'commercial physical and biological research.'
Full reasoning
Primary-source descriptions of Access International Advisors contradict this sentence’s business description. Access’s own materials describe the firm as managing "a platform of US hedge funds specializing in absolute return investment strategies" and owning "a series of single manager hedge fund products." The Madoff trustee’s complaint likewise describes Access as a distributor, manager, and portfolio adviser for hedge funds and investment products serving high-net-worth and institutional clients. Nothing in those primary sources supports the claim that the firm was a "research analyst investment agency" focused on portfolios involving "commercial physical and biological research."
2 sources
- Access International Advisors overview / business description
"Access, founded in 1995, manages a platform of US hedge funds specializing in absolute return investment strategies... Access owns and operates a series of single manager hedge fund products..."
- Amended complaint regarding UBS/Luxalpha/Access
The complaint says Access "evolved into a manager and portfolio advisor for its own hedge funds and investment products" and describes its marketing materials as calling it a manager of "a platform of US hedge funds specializing in absolute return investment strategies."