Tina Green

Cristina Stuart Green, Lady Green (Paine, formerly Palos; born August 1949), known as Tina Green, is an English businesswoman and interior designer.

Green is the director of Taveta, the majority owner of Taveta Investments Ltd, the parent company of the Arcadia Group, of which her husband, Sir Philip Green, is chairman.

The Arcadia Group owned the clothing retail chains Topshop and Topman, as well as Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Outfit, and Wallis.

Cristina Stuart Paine was born in London in August 1949.

Her father was a wine merchant; his business led to long periods living abroad and Green spent her childhood in Hong Kong, Japan and Thailand.

Green did not finish school and described herself as "trained in nothing" but has said that she loves to "work and to graft".

Green met Robert "Bobby" Palos, a South African jazz drummer in Hong Kong when she was 17 and he was 31.

Green has organised several large parties for her husband Philip's 50th, 55th and 60th birthday parties.

Philip's 50th birthday party took place in Cyprus and cost an estimated £5 million.

The party featured performances from Earth, Wind & Fire, and the singers Tom Jones and Rod Stewart.

His 55th birthday party was held in the Maldives at a cost of £20 million, with performances from Jennifer Lopez and George Michael.

His 60th was held at the Rosewood Mayakoba resort in Mexico featuring performances from The Beach Boys, Robbie Williams and Stevie Wonder.

They married a year later in 1967 after travelling around Australia and Japan.

Green initially worked in the diamond industry and subsequently moved to South Africa with Palos and the couple opened a fashion boutique in Johannesburg.

Green and Palos had two children, Stasha (born 1972) and Brett (born 1974).

Green's daughter, Stasha, subsequently described her mother's early career as having involved being "a diamond dealer, the first female DJ in Johannesburg [and] a go-go dancer" as well as dancing with The Beach Boys.

Green and Palos later took their fashion boutique to London.

Green described herself as more driven to succeed in business than Palos, and after 20 years together the couple divorced.

They remained friends after their divorce and Green and Palos's second wife were at his bedside when he died.

She met businessman Philip Green in 1985 and described him as "Just an ordinary person with a seriously strong work ethic", who was "a colourful character" with "zero money".

They married in 1990.

The couple have two children, Chloe (born 1991) and Brandon (born 1993).

Green designed clothing for her husband's clothing shops, including Lewis's and Owen Owen, and subsequently helped design the layout of the stores.

Green's fashion boutique in London's Knightsbridge district, Harabels, closed in 1992.

Green, her husband Philip, and their children moved to Monaco in 1998, having previously lived on Avenue Road in London's St John's Wood district.

Philip Green has said that the move was for health reasons.

In 2000, she bought £25 million of shares in the British retail company Marks & Spencer shortly before it was announced that Philip Green was considering a takeover of the company.

Green was the recipient of a £1.2 billion dividend payment from the Arcadia Group in 2005, a record payment in British corporate history.

In 2005 The Times stated that she was "for tax reasons the legal owner" of her and her husband's estimated wealth of £4.9 billion.

Tina Green said in a 2005 interview that the couple moved from St John's Wood to Monaco after Philip was the victim of a mugging by three men with a sword.

Green was described as the "for tax reasons the legal owner" of her and her husband's estimated wealth of £4.9 billion by The Times in 2005.

In 2012 Green ordered the superyacht Lionheart from the shipbuilders Benetti at an estimated cost of £100 million.

Taveta owned British Homes Stores (BHS) before its 2015 sale.

BHS was placed into administration in 2016, and the Arcadia Group was placed into administration in 2020.

Green formed the interior design company Green & Mingarelli with the Italian designer Pietro Mingarelli.

Green was appointed treasurer to the private charitable foundation of Charlene, Princess of Monaco, in 2017.

In 2020, the couple's wealth was estimated at £930 million by the Sunday Times Rich List and at $2.4 billion by The World's Billionaires list published by Forbes in 2021.

Green has a close financial relationship with the businessman Richard Caring.

She is a resident of Monaco.

In 2020, the couple's wealth was estimated at £930 million by the Sunday Times Rich List and at $2.4 billion by The World's Billionaires list published by Forbes in 2021.