[3] He has bachelor's and master's degrees in chemical engineering from Michigan Technological University.

[4] In 2018 and 2022 he was elected to the Lebanese Parliament (Beirut II district, Sunni seat).

[5] In 2013, it was reported that May had given the Conservative Party another £500,000 earlier that year, bringing her total donations since 2010 to over £1 million.

[6] In 2017, it was reported by The Guardian that François Fillon, the French presidential candidate, had allegedly been paid $50,000 to arrange a meeting between Makhzoumi, the Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Patrick Pouyane, the chief executive of the French energy multinational Total.

[7] Makhzoumi and his wife May have three children, Rami (died 2011, brain aneurysm), Tamara, and Camellia.