Ali Reza Pahlavi Net Worth

Background and career

Ali Reza Pahlavi (Persian: علیرضا پهلوی; 28 April 1966 – 4 January 2011) was the heir presumptive to the headship of the deposed Pahlavi dynasty from 1980 until his death in 2011. He was the younger son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the former Shah of Iran and his third wife Farah Diba. He was second in order of succession to the Iranian throne before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

He left Iran alongside his family shortly before the Revolution. He moved to the United States, where he ultimately received a BA degree from Princeton University, an MA degree from Columbia University, and was studying at Harvard University as a PhD student in ancient Iranian studies and philology at the time of his death.

On 4 January 2011, he committed suicide after battling with depression.