Charles Kushner

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.

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

Occupation

lawyer / businessperson / diplomat

University

New York University

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC

Tags

• New Jersey
• lawyer
• businessperson
• diplomat

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.