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.

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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)

Origin

Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

lawyer / businessperson / diplomat

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

University

New York University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Kushner
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5079897

Tags

• New Jersey
• lawyer
• businessperson
• diplomat

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.