There are no parties, beaches, or plates of food in Huma Abedin and Alex Soros' latest Instagram photos. You are not like the others. The last picture of Soros (New York, 38 years old) is at a dinner in Munich for the Open Society Foundation, where he gives the inaugural speech with Ursula von der Leyen. The one from Abedin (Michigan, 49 years old) from a few months ago, at the party of a podcast about female managers, at conferences she gave in Miami, at New York Fashion Week or on the red carpet of the Met Gala. However, their profiles no longer show one that, when published in their respective stories, disappeared within a few hours: in which they posed together, holding each other's hips, among red roses, boxes of jewels and hearts a restaurant in Paris. They celebrated Valentine's Day together. Both powerful, rich, Democrats and deeply rooted in the highest circles of American power showed that they have surprisingly become the new couple of the year. Or maybe not so much.
Abedin and Soros are two of the most famous and at the same time most discreet bachelors in high society on the American East Coast. Rich, well connected, elegant and now looking for a partner. Their relationship became public just a few days ago. She, Hillary Clinton's right-hand woman and “second daughter,” as the former secretary of state calls her, is divorced from a controversial former congressman who was sentenced to prison. He, manager of a fortune of 25,000 million dollars (and heir to another 6,700) and previously described by the American press as a playboy, seems to have found his equal. As sources familiar with their environment and their relationship explained to a New York magazine: “They are the classic couple of the Clinton universe.” Alex is a perfect match for Huma. He is incredibly rich and powerful, the most important thing for Huma.”
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The names of both have been known in power circles, especially democratic ones, for decades, but until now they had not appeared, or not too often, in the magazines for their sentimental and personal lives, especially that of Soros, known and photographed since your birth . His father, the Hungarian tycoon George Soros, 93, was married twice and had five children: Robert, Andrea and Jonathan, who aspired to succeed him, with the German Annaliese Witschak; and Alexander and Gregory with Susan Weber; He is now married to Tamiko Bolton. As if it were a spin-off of the Succession series, the eldest of the two second children unexpectedly received the keys to the empire last June and is now at the helm of the family's philanthropic work, managed by Open Society (with funding from 32,000 million dollars (now it's down to about 25,000), with which they make donations of 1,500 million dollars annually. Although George Soros, with a personal fortune of almost 7 billion US dollars, has supported the Democrats for decades (in fact, in 2016 he owned almost $10 million among the top ten donors to Hillary Clinton's campaign), Alex has already made it clear that his investment path will be “more political” than that of his 92-year-old father, and that he intends to expand his “liberal goals” by He leans a little further to the left and supports campaigns such as gender equality or abortion rights. To this end, he has met with parts of the Biden government, with Justin Trudeau and with Lula da Silva. Photos of him with Emmanuel Macron, Kamala Harris and Barack Obama, among others, are widely shared on his social networks.
From the cradle, Alex Soros has easily moved in the most exclusive circles and made good friends there. Including Bill Clinton, with whom he has been closely linked for years. Both made a pilgrimage to Rome last year to visit Pope Francis, who received them both in a private audience at his Santa Marta residence in the Vatican. Chelsea Clinton, the former president's only daughter, and her husband Marc Mezvinsky come from the same family and are close to Alexander, whom they now refer to as “family” on their social networks.
And this reflection in the inner circle is repeated in Abedin. It's not clear where the new couple met, but it's clear that even though they've been together for almost a decade, they're on the same page. Abedin has been one of Hillary Clinton's right-wing men and her closest collaborator for years. In fact, the former US Secretary of State considers it her blood. The daughter of an Indian Muslim intellectual and a Pakistani academic, she grew up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and returned to her home country at the age of 18 to study at George Washington University. When she was just 19, she got a fellowship at the White House and ended up in the then-first lady's office instead of the presidency, and they've been working together ever since. She was initially his assistant and, before the 2016 elections, his campaign vice president. In 2012, Time magazine named her one of the 40 most promising stars under 40 in the American political scene.
Chelsea Clinton, Marc Mezvinsky and Alex Soros at an auction and charity dinner at Cipriani restaurant in New York in June 2017. Patrick McMullan (Getty Images)
His relationship with the presidential family is so good that it was Bill Clinton who married Abedin in 2010 after a nine-year relationship with then-Congressman Anthony Weiner: “I only have one daughter; “If I had another one, it would be Huma,” Hillary Clinton said at the wedding. The couple met, where else, at a Democratic convention, and politics played a central role in their nearly 15-year relationship (he actually tried to run for mayor of New York), during which they became one son, Jordan. In August 2016, in the middle of the election campaign, Weiner experienced his second and most serious scandal: he exchanged sexual messages that damaged his reputation, that of his wife and her boss.
If her scandal in 2011 put the marriage in jeopardy, Abedin said enough in 2016 and filed for divorce. In the pictures he shared with other women, Weiner appeared in his underwear and in the same bed as his son. In May 2017, matters went further and Weiner pleaded guilty to sending photos with sexual content to a minor under 15; In September he was sentenced to 21 months in prison and served 18 months. In the book, which Abedin published in fall 2021, he revealed that he found it so difficult to get through it that he considered suicide. Now they are sometimes seen with their son or at charity galas, where they usually have to deny reconciliation rumors.
Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin, during Weiner's 2013 campaign as a candidate for mayor of New York. Andrew Savulich (Getty Images)
Since then, she has maintained a low social profile. A fashion lover – if her career had not been in politics, she would have dedicated herself to this sector – she is a good friend of Anna Wintour, the head of Vogue magazine. In fact, she was the one who introduced Abedin and actor-director Bradley Cooper a few years ago in the hopes of forging a romance. The relationship was very short, just a few months in the summer of 2022, but the press did not hesitate to call them “the new George and Amal Clooney”. He is now dating model Gigi Hadid, but the two continue to maintain a close friendship.
The new relationship between Soros and Abedin has high goals due to their lifestyle and their shared friends and interests. Some of their acquaintances stated in the media of Page Six that they are excited about this relationship, especially after the difficult divorce that the counselor went through, whom they describe as “an interesting and intelligent woman” while saying about him, that “business-minded”, although a few years ago he was “a bit strange” and didn't like cameras or social life, which can strengthen her now. Some Democratic donors who know her also say she “always wanted to be part of the American version of royalty.” He strokes it with his fingertips.