Belgian fashion is in mourning. On March 29, 2023 shortly before 10:00, in a residence located in Ohain (in Lasne, a French-speaking municipality in Belgium located in the Walloon region), Baroness Myriam Ullens de Schooten was shot several times in the head. It was her son-in-law who shot him: Nicolas Ullens of Schooten.
And this sordid crime almost sounds like a Netflix script (coincidentally, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story which tells the true story of the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace, killed on his doorstep in Miami).
Why Schooten’s Nicolas Ullens killed his stepmother, Schooten stylist Myriam Ullens
The 57-year-old son had come to visit his parents, before arguing with them over money, so they asked him to leave. Only he waited for them in his car until they got out to drive their car. The killer then voluntarily rammed them to stop them, then shot six times at the 70-year-old stepmother, who died. Baron Guy Ullens of Schooten has been wounded in the leg, but his life is not in danger.
Nicolas Ullens turned himself in to the police the day after his murder, he reports The Free. According to Belgian media, he accused his mother-in-law of squandering her father’s inheritance. Second Paris match, the baron’s fortune, estimated at 3 billion in the 2000s, would today reach a peak of around 200-300 million euros. The good old sexist cliche of the stepmother can therefore be deadly.
Nicolas Ullens de Schooten was subjected to an arrest warrant, charged with murder and violation of the law on weapons. He will have to appear on April 3 to decide whether or not to keep him in detention.
Who was Myriam Ullens de Schooten, fashion designer, contemporary art collector and great philanthropist?
This appalling murder mourns the entire Belgian aristocracy. Myriam Ullens de Schooten came from a modest background and had started her own artisan pastry business as a single mother of two, before meeting the baron, marrying him and multiplying local and international humanitarian projects with him. . The Baroness was particularly popular, as a well-known philanthropist, close to the royal family, but also as a stylist. In 2011, you founded Maison Ullens, a confidential luxury brand that mainly offered exceptional leather and cashmere garments. The brand paid him a final tribute on March 30, 2023:
“It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of Baroness Myriam Ullens de Schooten Whettnal, an entrepreneur, patron and collector, engaged in art, fashion and philanthropy.
With her husband Guy Ullens, she started an ambitious education program in Nepal in 1993, Ullens School, which is both an orphanage, a care center and an education center for primary and secondary education.
After battling cancer in 2003, she created the Mimi Ullens Foundation, a foundation active in cancer research and patient support in 8 hospitals in France, Belgium and Switzerland.
In 2011, he founded Maison Ullens, a luxury ready-to-wear line inspired by the travels he loved so much.
Mimi reminded us constantly the most important thing is to thank life every day.
That’s how she would like everyone to remember her. »
Source: Madmoizelle
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