{{Short description|Monegasque businessman (born 1973)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox person | image = | image_size = | name = Patrice Pastor | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = <!-- please provide a citation {{Birth date and age|year= |month= |day= }} --> | birth_place = Monaco | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | restingplace = | education = | alma mater = | occupation = Chairman of J.B. Pastor & Fils | spouse = | children = | father = Victor Pastor | relatives = Michel Pastor (uncle)<br/>Hélène Pastor (aunt)<br/>Philippe Pastor (brother) | website = }}
'''Patrice Pastor''' (born 1973) is a Monegasque businessman and property developer. He has been chairman of the Monaco development company J.B. Pastor & Fils since 2002.
== Biography == In 1926, the stonemason Jean-Baptiste Pastor created the construction company J.B. Pastor & Fils in Monaco. His son Gildo expanded the family business to real estate development. At his death in 1990, the Pastor family owned 500,000 square meters of real estate property in Monaco, a 19-billion euro fortune that was inherited by Gildo's three children: Victor (1936-2002), Hélène (1937-2014) and Michel (1943-2014).<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Égré|first=Pascale|date=2018-09-17|title=La dynastie Pastor, «l’autre famille princière» de Monaco|url=https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/la-dynastie-pastor-l-autre-famille-princiere-de-monaco-17-09-2018-7891410.php|access-date=2024-10-31|website=leparisien.fr|language=fr-FR}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web |last=Calendar|first=Event|date=2023-10-27|title=Who Is Who: Monaco business dynasties|url=https://www.hellomonaco.com/sightseeing/monaco-s-celebrities/who-is-who-monaco-business-dynasties/|access-date=2024-10-31|website=HelloMonaco|language=en-US}}</ref>
Patrice Pastor is Victor's son, and succeeded his father at the helms of J.B. Pastor & Fils after his passing in 2002.<ref name=":02" /><ref name=":12" /> He is also the head of Pastor Real Estate based in London.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pastor Real Estate - JB Pastor & Fils - Monaco|url=http://jbpastoretfils.mc/?page_id=3413&lang=en|accessdate=6 October 2015|work=JB Pastor & Fils - Monaco}}</ref> He was appointed President of Monaco's syndicate of construction employers (''Chambre patronale du bâtiment de Monaco'') in 2008.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2008-12-24|title=MOUVEMENTS Patrice Pastor|url=https://www.lemoniteur.fr/article/mouvements-patrice-pastor.1303244|journal=Le Moniteur|language=fr}}</ref> He owned 20% of the Monaco soccer club between 2009 and 2012,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-01-12|title=L'ASM vendue pour un euro symbolique|url=https://monaco-hebdo.com/actualites/sport/lasm-vendue-pour-un-euro-symbolique/|access-date=2025-05-11|website=monaco-hebdo.com|language=fr-FR}}</ref> was the owner of the weekly ''L'Observateur de Monaco'' until 2010,<ref name="monacomatin2">[http://www.monacomatin.mc/article/entreprises/un-nouvel-actionnaire-pour-lobservateur-de-monaco.255328.html Un nouvel actionnaire pour L'Observateur de Monaco], <i>Monaco-Matin</i>, 4 August 2010</ref> and a 5% shareholder of Société des bains de mer de Monaco from 2020 to 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-18|title=MONACO : Property magnate Patrice Pastor sells his stake in Monaco's Société des Bains de Mer - 08/06/2023|url=https://www.glitz.paris/en/families/2023/06/08/property-magnate-patrice-pastor-sells-his-stake-in-monaco-s-societe-des-bains-de-mer,109991978-art|access-date=2024-12-18|website=Glitz.paris|language=en}}</ref>
His company financed the construction of Monaco's new district on the sea, Mareterra, which Prince Albert II called "our first national eco-district, and designed by architects Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando and Norman Foster.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Roux|first=Caroline|date=2024-11-22|title=Mareterra takes Monaco into new waters|url=https://www.ft.com/content/8cec850d-df7a-4cc8-8b50-43290443bca6|access-date=2025-06-12|work=Financial Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=2012-12-06|title=À Monaco, lever de rideau sur le quartier de tous les records|url=https://immobilier.lefigaro.fr/article/a-monaco-lever-de-rideau-sur-le-quartier-de-tous-les-records_518e046e-b318-11ef-b650-9e8c2aa10b31/|journal=Le Figaro|language=fr}}</ref>
== Controversies == Patrice Pastor acquired several properties in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, which led to a local feud in 2023 when he requested a Mills Act application (property tax for historic properties) for the Frank Lloyd Wright house he intended to renovate.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-03-14 |title=Monaco billionaire sneers at 'jealous people' in tense Carmel meeting |url=https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/monaco-billionaire-sneers-jealous-people-carmel-18923737.php |access-date=2024-10-31 |last=Pridgen|first=Andrew|work=SF Gate}}</ref> Residents questioned his interest in buying multiple properties in the city.<ref name="Times202406032">{{Cite web |date=2023-02-23|title=‘Octopus of Monaco’ wraps his tentacles around California town|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/monaco-businessman-dubbed-the-octopus-gets-his-tentacles-into-exclusive-californian-town-026x3zbts|access-date=2024-12-09|website=The Times|language=en-EN}}</ref>
He was suspected of plotting the Dossiers du Rocher files, a digital smear campaign targeting Monegasque personalities close to Prince Albert II, especially real estate companies (and Pastor's competitors) involved in major real estate tenders<ref>{{Cite news |last=Davet|first=Gérard|author-link=Gérard Davet|last2=Fabrice|first2=Lhomme|author-link2=Fabrice Lhomme|date=2022-05-15|title=Monaco's real estate struggles mixed with politics to create a palace revolution|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2022/05/15/in-monaco-real-estate-struggles-mingled-with-politics-to-create-a-palace-revolution_5983616_7.html|access-date=2024-10-31|work=Le Monde|language=en}}</ref>, which he denied.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-12 |title=VIDEO. Dossiers du Rocher : le promoteur Patrice Pastor n'est pas le "corbeau", affirme-t-il dans "Complément d'enquête" |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazine/france-2/complement-d-enquete/video-dossiers-du-rocher-le-promoteur-patrice-pastor-n-est-pas-le-corbeau-affirme-t-il-dans-complement-d-enquete_5819786.html |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=Franceinfo|language=fr-FR}}</ref>
== Honors == * 2009: Knight of the Order of Grimaldi<ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-11-17 |title=Remise de Décorations |url=https://www.palais.mc/en/news/h-s-h-prince-albert-ii/event/2009/november/remise-de-decorations-dans-les-ordres-de-saint-charles-et-de-grimaldi-par-s-a-s-le-prince-souverain-1532.html |access-date=2024-10-31 |work=Palais.mc}}</ref>
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