- Source of Wealth: Fashion (CEO of Net-a-Porter)
- Nationality: United States
A former fashion editor, she kept an 18% stake and reinvested £15m in the business, which made a £23.5m profit on sales of £152.5m in 2009-10. London-based Massenet, who announced recently that she was separating from her husband Arnaud, remains executive chairman.
Natalie Sara Massenet was born in Los Angeles in May 1965, the daughter of Bob Rooney (an American journalist) and Barbara Jones (a model for Chanel). She spent her early childhood in Paris before moving back to Los Angeles in 1976 with her father.In 1997 she met her husband, Arnaud Massenet (an investment banker) at the Notting Hill Carnival. A month later, she moved from LA to be with him.