V era Rechulski Santo Domingo is a Brazilian heiress and the widow of Julio Mario Santo Domingo Jr., one of the sons of the Colombian-Brazilian beer magnate Julio Mario Santo Domingo. The Santo Domingo family controlled the Colombian brewery, Bavaria, which they later merged with SABMiller. The family's fortune was massively amplified in 2016 when SABMiller was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev in a mega-deal valued at over $100 billion.
This transaction made the Santo Domingo family the second-largest shareholders in the world's largest beer company, AB InBev, after the Brazilian trio of Jorge Paulo Lemann and his partners. Vera and her two children inherited their stake in this massive global beer empire. She is not involved in the business operations of the company but her inherited stake, managed through the family's investment firm, makes her one of the wealthiest women in Brazil. Her son, Julio Mario Santo Domingo III, is a professional DJ in New York.
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