Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson via EMI fund estimated loss $145 million. Busson, 45, a French-born child of the European financial aristocracy, started his career as a high-priced matchmaker, pairing new-world hedge fund managers With old-world money. He parlayed that into a fund-of-funds business that's paid off handsomely. EIM's funds gained an annual average of 12 percent from 1996 to 2007, and his wealth was estimated before the crisis by London's Sunday Times at $390 million.

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Madoff fraud's nightmare incenses investorBy Stephanie Baker Bloomberg News Posted: 01/16/2009 06:43:05 PM EST and Tom Cahill Arpad Busson is angry. He's just looked at the latest return
Uma Thurman's fiancé, hedge fund manager Arpad Busson, has also been sucked into the vortex. The hedge fund he runs, EIM, has been exposed to about £145million
Uma Thurman's billionaire fiancé among A-listers swindled by 'Midas Madoff' in world's biggest fraud By OLINKA KOSTER and DANIEL BATES Last updated at 2:08 AM on 17th December 2008 From movie dir