Jemima Goldsmith is a British screenwriter and documentary producer, famous for being the first wife of former Pakistani Prime Minister and retired cricketer Imran Khan.
She is the founder of a television production company named Instinct Production and produces tv, film, and documentaries. She is popularly known as Jemima Khan even after her divorce from her ex-husband Imran Khan.
She was formerly the associate editor of a British political and cultural magazine, The New Statesman. She also worked for the American magazine Vanity Fair as the European editor-at-large. She founded Instinct Productions 2015, a London-based content company specializing in documentaries, television, and film. She has amassed respectable earnings from her projects.
What Is Jemima Goldsmith’s Net Worth?
Jemima Goldsmith is a British screenwriter with an estimated net worth of $100 million as of 2022.
She is the founder of Instinct Productions. She was the executive producer for The Clinton Affair, the Emmy-nominated six-part documentary series, alongside Emmy-winning director Blaire Foster and Alex Gibney.
The 48-year-old was also a producer on the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated Impeachment and American Crime Story Season Three, a ten-part drama series about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
Also, she wrote and produced the cross-cultural rom-com for Working Title Films and Studio Canal, What’s Love Got to Do with It? starring Emma Thompson and Lily James, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and is set to release in January 2023.
She was also the executive producer of We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks by Alex Gibney, the BAFTA-nominated documentary film. In addition, she co-produced the documentary Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars and the Nicolas Kent and Mehmet Ergen-directed play Drones, Baby, Drones.
She is a successful journalist who has written for the United Kingdom’s newspapers and magazines, including The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Evening Standard, and The Observer, during her time in Pakistan.
She also famously took an exclusive interview for The Independent with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in 2008, on the eve of the elections. She was a Sunday Telegraph columnist from October 2007 to January 2008, a contributing editor for British Vogue, and a feature writer from 2008 to 2011.
Goldsmith is also a model who was the face of the relaunched Azzaro Couture fragrance. She was also a guest co-designer of a Spring 2009 collection for Azzaro.
The 54-year-old was born into a prestigious British family, with her mother, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, an English socialite, and her father, Sir James Goldsmith, a financier tycoon and a member of the Goldsmith family.
She is most famously known for being the first wife of the retired cricketer and later the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan.
Jemima Goldsmith Is Imran Khan’s First Wife
Jemima Goldsmith was married to former Pakistani Prime Minister and cricket icon Imran Khan.
The couple married in a two-minute ceremony conducted in Urdu on 16 May 1995 in Paris. However, on 21 June, a month later, they wed again in a civil ceremony at the Richmond registry office in England.
Upon the marriage, Jemima converted to Islam, her husband’s religion. As a result, the couple was blessed with two sons, Sulaiman Isa (born 1996) and Kasim (born 1999).
Things were going great for Jemima and Imran, but the cultural shock proved too much for the former, who found adapting to life in Pakistan challenging. As a result, they amicably divorced on 22 June 2004.
Jemima returned to Britain with their two sons after the divorce. According to the settlement, the boys visit him during their school holidays, and when he comes to London, he stays with his former mother-in-law, Lady Annabel Goldsmith.
They remain good friends even after the separation, with Gemima retaining the Khan family name until December 2014, when Imran married news anchor Reham Khan.
Jemima Goldsmith Romantic Relationship
British screenwriter Jemima Goldsmith has been in a couple of romantic relationships after separating from her former husband, Imran Khan.
After returning to London following the divorce, Goldsmith became romantically involved with the famous actor Hugh Grant.
According to a 2005 Evening Standard article, Jemima’s profile changed from “high during her first marriage to Imran Khan” to “soaring since she became involved with Hugh Grant.”
Goldsmith then dated Katy Perry’s former husband and comedian, Russell Brand, in September 2013. However, the relationship lasted only a year, as they separated in September 2014.
Russell Brand received libel damages from The Sun in May 2014 after the paper printed a story in November 2013 alleging that he had been unfaithful to Jemima. He would donate the unspecific damages to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign.
Who Are Jemima Goldsmith Parents?
Jemima Goldsmith is the daughter of financier Sir James Goldsmith (1933–1997) and Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart.
Her mother, Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart, is from an aristocratic Anglo−Irish family. She is the daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry.
Her father, Sir James Goldsmith, was the son of the former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) and hotel tycoon, Major Frank Goldsmith. He was of German-Jewish descent with a French mother.
Jemima Goldsmith Siblings
She was born on 30 January 1974 in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. She is the eldest one of three children born to the couple.
Her brothers are Zac Goldsmith, the Minister of State for Asia, Energy, Climate, and Environment, and Ben Goldsmith, a financier and environmentalist. She has five paternal half-siblings from his father’s previous two marriages and a later affair.
Similarly, she has three maternal half-siblings, including Rupert Birley, who disappeared off the coast of Togo in West Africa; Robin Birley, a businessman; and India Jane Birley, an artist and businesswoman.
Jemima Goldsmith is on Instagram as @khanjemima and is followed by 265K people.