Personal life Mercer studied at Stanford University where she met Sylvain Mirochnikoff. The couple married in 2003.[24] In 2010, she bought six adjoining apartment units in Donald Trump's 41-story Heritage at Trump Place.[24] Mercer left her trading job to home-school her four children.[14][8] In 2016, Mirochnikoff, a native of France, was a managing director at Morgan Stanley.[6] In 2017, the couple were divorcing.[21]
Cambridge Analytica was a privately held data mining and data analysis company with financial backing from the Mercers.[4] The Mercers invested in the company after Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election.[6] On May 1, 2018, Cambridge Analytica and its parent company filed for insolvency proceedings and closed operations.[29][30] Alexander Tayler, a former director for Cambridge Analytica, was appointed director of Emerdata on March 28, 2018.[31] Rebekah Mercer, Jennifer Mercer, Alexander Nix and Johnson Chun Shun Ko [zh] who has links to Erik Prince are in leadership positions at Emerdata.[32][33]
Mercer supported Mitt Romney in 2012 and Ted Cruz for the 2016 presidential election. After Trump won the GOP nomination, she and her father switched their support to him. Mercer supported Jeff Sessions for Secretary of State over Mitt Romney.[2][7]
Early life and education Mercer is the daughter of Diana Lynne (Dean) and billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer; Rebekah is the second of the Mercers' three daughters.[12] She was raised in Yorktown Heights, a suburb of New York.[6]
Notable people Roy Colsey, Major League Lacrosse player, grew up in Yorktown Chef Nick DiBona, Chopped Champion, NY Times rated chef/restaurateur, Creator of Bona Bona Ice Cream. Born and raised in Yorktown Nargis Fakhri, Bollywood actress, owns a house in Yorktown[14] Susan Faludi, American feminist, journalist, author, and Pulitzer Prize winner grew up in Yorktown Robert Hannsen, convicted Russian spy, lived with his family in Yorktown in the mid-1980s Margaret Illington, stage actress popular in the first decade of the 20th century, lived on her Dreamlake estate in Yorktown[15] Consuelo Kanaga, photographer and writer who became well known for her photographs of African-Americans Andrew Kavovit, actor, grew up in Yorktown Dave Matthews, singer/songwriter, lived with his family in Yorktown before he moved to Virginia William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., fiction editor for The New Yorker and novelist[16][17] Terrence Murphy, Former New York State Senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Congresswoman, born in NYC, but moved to Yorktown when she was five and later attended Yorktown High School[18] Buster Olney, ESPN baseball analyst and former New York Yankees beat writer Clifford A. Pickover, writer. In his book, The Mobius Strip, he models the fictional New Devonshire on Yorktown. Pickover also used the Jefferson Valley Mall as the locale for his book The Heaven Virus. Al Roker, meteorologist, lived in Yorktown while he was married to the town clerk, Alice Bell Anthony "Romeo" Santos, Dominican-American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and lead vocalist of the American bachata band Aventura who is the first Latino artist to sell out Yankee and MetLife Stadium Lawrence Treat, mystery writer and pioneer of the genre of novels police procedurals[19] Halsey (H.W.) Wilson, founder of the H. W. Wilson Company, a publisher, lived in the Croton Heights section of Yorktown[20]
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