She was a real property investor and madam [ 2 ] who made a fortune in the brothel business, whereby she became the top taxpayer in Istanbul for five consecutive years during the s. She was born in to an aristocratic Armenian family in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Soon, she lost her husband and had to live alone with her son. One of the brothel owners handed over his business to her in order to settle a debt, and over the years, she expanded the number of brothels she owned to a chain of She invested her opulent earnings from the sex business into real property.
Manukyan was the top taxpayer in Istanbul for five consecutive years during the s and received an award for that by the revenue authority. In an interview, she revealed that she then owned around 70 business centers and apartments in Istanbul, in Yalova , three five-star hotels in Antalya and Alanya , 10 villas in Kyrenia , Northern Cyprus and a factory in Istanbul in the export business. She also noted that she was building a hotel in Germany with beds.
She also ran a fleet of around taxis. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Turkish businesswoman. Istanbul , Ottoman Empire. Istanbul , Turkey. Biography [ edit ]. Trivia [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 7 July Retrieved Archived from the original on February 10, University of Amsterdam : Archived from the original on September 29, External links [ edit ].
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