Kristen Tomassi: What happened to Richard Branson's ex-wife?

Who is Kristen Tomassi?

Kristen Tomassi is the ex-wife of Richard Branson. Kristen Tomassi’s ex-husband Brandon is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which controls more than 400 companies in various fields today. Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age.

Kristen Tomassi: Bio Summary

Who is Richard Branson’s ex-wife Kristen Tomassi?

Kristen Tomassi is popular as the ex-wife of Richard Branson. She was born in 1951 in Southport, Connecticut, USA to her parents, Joseph H. Tomassi and Jacqueline Tomassi. As of 2022, she is 71 years old.

She is an American citizen and comes from Southport, Conn. Her father, Joseph H. Tomassi, her father, is a businessman. She grew up with her three sisters, Merril Delaney, Jacquelyn Richardson, and Lowell McHugh.

Kristen Tomassi attended Concord Academy. Then, she went to Fairfield University. Furthermore, she attended the Parsons School of Design in New York, followed by the Arizona State School of Architecture.

Kristen Tomassi’s father, Joseph J. Tomassi Jr., was reported to be a mergers and acquisitions specialist and an industrial executive. He was involved in various business ventures before establishing North American Matric Ltd. in Milford, Connecticut. Mr. Tomassi was also the director of international marketing and development for Libby, McNeill, Libby International, producers of canned and frozen foods. Kristen’s father, Joseph H. Tomassi died in 1990.

Jacqueline Tomassi, Kristen Tomassi’s mother, is an artist. She will be exhibiting her works in September 2019. Kristen attended the exhibition’s opening with her sisters.

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How did Richard Branson and Kristen Tomassi meet?

How did the former love birds meet and started their relationship? The couple have not given any information related to the circumstances that lead to their paths crossing and hence their marriage. However, the couple tied the knot in 1972. They got married in a beautiful ceremony in the presence of their friends, family, and loved ones. Kristen was an architecture student. He was 21, and she was 20.

The Rev. Hubert McCann performed the Anglican ceremony in Holy Cross Church in Shipton‐on‐Cherwell, which is near Manor Studios, the bridegroom’s property, Blenheim Palace, the traditional home of the Dukes of Marlborough near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, England.

Their marriage however couldn’t stand forever, the couple called a quit in 1979. Tomassi’s ex-husband Branson claimed he broke out in a rash whenever he gets intimate with his wife. “Kristen and I had a bizarre sexual allergy to each other,” he narrated in his book -Losing My Virginity.

He wrote- “Whenever we made love, a painful rash spread across me that would take about three weeks to heal. We went to several doctors, but we never resolved the problem. I even had a circumcision to stop the reaction.”

In keeping with the times, the couple experimented with an open marriage. They switched partners with Kevin Ayers of Soft Machine. Branson’s relationship with Ayers’ wife, Cyrille, did not work out, but Kristen and Kevin hooked up and had a child together. Branson later admitted that he and his first wife were simply too young to marry. She and Branson did not have any babies.

Tomassi married Kevin Ayers after her first marriage ended. However, her marital life would not last long as that also ended in a divorce. Kristen then exchanged vows with Axel Ball, a German property developer.

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How many children does Kristen Tomassi have?

As said earlier, Kristen Tomassi and Branson did not have any children. Richard Branson’s ex-wife is a doting mother of two kids from her other marriages. With her second husband, Kristen welcomed a daughter, Galen Ayers. Tomassi’s daughter is pursuing a career in the music industry. She is a married woman, who is married to her hubby, Stephen James Hopkins.

Aside from the daughter, Kristen gave birth to a son, Nicholas Ball, with her spouse, Axel Ball. He is a real estate agent and is married to Nadine Hawa. Furthermore, she is a loving grandmother to her son’s children, Adriana Ball, and Alexander Ball.

Kristen Tomassi’s ex-husband, Richard Branson also, on the other hand, has a daughter Holly (b. 1981), and a son Sam (b. 1985) with his second wife, Joan Templeman, whom he met in 1976. They were married in 1989 on Necker Island. He stated in an interview with Piers Morgan that he and Joan also had a daughter named Clare Sarah, who died when she was four days old in 1979. Kristen Tomassi and Branson are still good friends.

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