Charlottesville. The Aga Khan inherited Charlottesville from his father, Prince Aly Khan, and the colt became perhaps the best horse to race anywhere in the world in 1960.

His predecessor as the Aga Khan did not race horses in America but was immensely successful in Europe, where his racehorses and bloodstock were considered among the best in the world.

Aly Khan’s longest flirtation was with death. His father, the late Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 20 million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, forced him to give up two hazardous pastimes ...

Prince Karim Al-Hussaini became the Aga Khan IV and 49th hereditary iman in his family's 1,300-year-old dynasty when he was a 20-year-old student at Harvard. His grandfather, the Aga Khan III ...

The Aga Khan, Spiritual Leader Whose Riches Enabled Horse Racing Glory, Dies at 88 By John Revill (Reuters) -The Aga Khan, known for his triumphs in horse racing, dazzling wealth and development ...

His first wife was Sarah Croker Poole, a British model and former debutante who took the name Salima Aga Khan after they married. The daughter of a Lieutenant Colonel in New Delhi, in 1958 she was ...

In 1949, their parents divorced, and Prince Aly went on to marry the American actress Rita Hayworth, with whom he had a daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan. Known in his youth as Prince Karim, the ...

The Ismaili community’s website said he was born on Dec. 13, 1936, in Creux-de-Genthod, near Geneva, Switzerland, the son of Joan Yarde-Buller and Aly Khan, and spent part of his childhood in ...

The Aga Khan IV was born in Switzerland as Prince Karim Al-Hussaini in 1936, the eldest son of renowned playboy Prince Aly Khan and his wife Joan, the daughter of a British baron.

Born in Geneva in 1936, Prince Karim was the eldest son of the noted playboy Prince Aly Khan and his aristocratic British wife, Joan. In his late 20s, he competed for Iran in skiing at the 1964 ...

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 and then evolved into a business magnate and philanthropist, died Tuesday.