My Take
Charles Kushner is one of those figures where the biography reads like a screenplay nobody would greenlight for being too on-the-nose. He built Kushner Companies into one of New Jersey's major real-estate operations, then spectacularly blew it up with a 2005 federal conviction — including a witness-tampering scheme involving a hired escort and his own brother-in-law — that got him disbarred and sent to federal prison. Most careers would end there. Instead, his son Jared married Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump won the presidency, and suddenly Charles Kushner was rehabilitated into the inner circle, eventually landing the U.S. ambassadorship to France and Monaco. It's a story less about real estate and more about how proximity to power rewrites a man's entire narrative.
Overview
Charles Kushner (born May 16, 1954) is an American real-estate developer, diplomat, felon and disbarred attorney serving since 2025 as the United States ambassador to France and Monaco. He founded Kushner Companies in 1985. Charles' elder son, Jared is the husband of Ivanka Trump, during whose first presidential administration he served as a Senior Adviser from 2017 to 2021.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Charles Kushner
- Name (Japanese)
- チャールズ・クシュナー
- Reading
- ちゃーるず・くしゅなー
- Born
- May 16, 1954 (age 72)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Horse
- Origin
- Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- lawyer / businessperson / diplomat
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- New York University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.