He was also the great-great-great-grandson of Sephardi-Jew of Portuguese descent Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, being son of Edmond Adolphe and grandson of Noémie de Rothschild.

Benjamin Edmond Maurice Adolphe Henri Isaac de Rothschild[1] was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine[5] on 30 July 1963.

[6] He studied at the Swiss Institut Florimont and held a BA in Business Management from Pepperdine University.

[18] In 2015, the team mounted foiling dagger boards and T-rudders on a Multi One Design 70 ft to make it "fly" over water, after a decision a year earlier to build a new, state-of-the-art yacht.

[20] On 17 July 2017, the 32×23-meter Maxi Edmond de Rothschild (Gitana 17) was introduced, the offshore racing's first maxi-multihull designed to fly in the open ocean.

[24] Benjamin de Rothschild inherited the Château Clarke wine estate purchased by his father in 1973.

He renovated the fermentation room[25] and hired the oenologist Michel Rolland in 1998 to perfect the Château's vines and supervise the family's new vineyard ventures in South Africa and Argentina.

[34] The baron and his wife were the owners of La Ferme des 30 Arpents in the countryside outside of Paris, which produces brie de Meaux AOC.

[40] He bought the engine of the crashed Concorde (Air France Flight 4590) and commissioned an artist to turn it into a work of art.

[45] On 15 January 2021, Benjamin de Rothschild suffered a heart attack and died at his home in Pregny-Chambésy, Switzerland.