India Jane Birley is a British artist, heiress and businesswoman.
Background
She was a co-owner/manager of her father"s London nightclub, Annabel"s, in its later years, as well as some of her father"s other establishments. Born in London, India Jane Birley is the daughter of Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart from her marriage to nightclub mogul Mark Birley. She has two brothers, Rupert (presumed deceased) and Robin.
And three half-siblings, Zac, Jemima, and Ben Goldsmith from her mother"s affair with James Goldsmith, the man who would become her second husband.
Career
She was subsequently engaged to Amir Farman-Farma, a wealthy Iranian aristocrat, but the marriage was called official They lived in Bombay and London before Pike relocated to Germany and Morocco. In October 2004, when asked by Evening Standard why she had no children Birley answered, "I"m not able to".
Birley, the granddaughter of society and royal portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley, is a painter whose 1999 portrait, "Conrad Moffat Black (Baron Black of Crossharbour) and Barbara Amiel", appears at the National Portrait Gallery (London).
She illustrated her mother"s book, Copper: A Dog"s Life. Birley also organized an exhibition on the origins of sex< and has a noted collection of antique erotica.
She has since sold Annabel"s for over $100 million and is no longer involved with the enterprise.