The Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League are owned by American businessman and movie producer Jeffrey Robert Lurie. The movie Inside Job, which was made by Lurie, won the Oscar for the best documentary film on February 27, 2011. The company also made commercials for TV. Two years later, he won his second Oscar for the documentary short film Inocente, for which he was the executive producer.
Looking into his personal life, Lurie has been married twice. He first met Christina Weiss, a former actress who worked for his production company, at a meeting. In 1992, Lurie married Weiss in Gstaad, Switzerland. They had a son, Julian, who was born in 1995, and a daughter, Milena (b.1993). The couple got divorced in 2012, Currently, he is married to Tina Lai. Here in this article, we’ll talk about his current wife and their relationship in detail.
Meet Jeffrey Lurie’s Wife, Tina Lai
The owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, Jeffrey Lurie, is married to Tina Lai Lurie, a Vietnamese immigrant whose family has owned several restaurants in Philadelphia. She is the eighth and last child. In 1978, she came to the U.S. with her parents and siblings as a refugee. They had to leave Vietnam because of the Communist government.
“The Lai family came to this country with only what they were wearing. But with skill, foresight, and a lot of hard work, they were able to raise their children and make their businesses successful. “Yes, the Lai family has really lived the American dream,” the Lai family says on the website for their restaurant.
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Benny Lai, Tina’s brother, told a Philadelphia magazine called Chestnut Hill Local in 2010 that the family was lost on the South China Sea for several days in a rickety boat after they left Vietnam. They were saved by sailors who were being kind, and they were taken to Malaysia. After that, they moved to West Philadelphia, where Tina Lai went to high school at Lamberton.
Tina Lai is also the senior interior designer for Stanford hotels. She is also the most important part of managing and coordinating projects and putting communication and production standards into place. She was named the Chief Human Resources Officer of Seaspan Corporation on July 23, 2018. Seaspan Corporation is the largest independent containership owner-operator in the world. Tina used to work for Metrie, which was based in North America. She used to be its vice president back then.
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Know About Jeffrey And Tina’s Marriage
Tina Lai Lurie, who is 44 years old, has been married to the Eagles owner, who is 66 years old, since 2013. Philly.com says that on May 4, 2013, Tina Lai and Jeffrey Lurie got married in a private ceremony in Charleston, South Carolina. The couple met when Tina was working at her family’s restaurant.
A member of Tina’s family told Philly.com after the wedding, “We’re very happy for Tina and Jeffrey.”
Jeff and Tina Lurie do not have any children together. From his 20-year marriage to Christina Weiss Lurie, he has a son and a daughter.
