Who are Geoffrey Ogunlesi’s parents? Jennifer Meyer’s new husband’s father is a billionaire lawyer

2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Mark Guiducci - Arrivals - Source: Getty
Geoffrey Ogunlesi And Jennifer Meyer - 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Mark Guiducci - Arrivals - Source: Getty

On October 10, American jewellery designer Jennifer Meyer tied the knot with businessman Geoffrey Ogunlesi at the Four Seasons Resort Lanai in Hawaii. The wedding was officiated by Meyer’s ex-husband and Hollywood actor-film producer Tobey Maguire.

Geoffrey Ogunlesi, 34, is the son of British-born optometrist Dr Amelia Quist-Ogunlesi and her husband, the Nigerian billionaire lawyer and investment banker Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi.

Geoffrey Ogunlesi is the founder and CEO of The Ogunlesi Group, a music management and entertainment company he founded in Los Angeles in 2022. His clientele includes Young Thug and Myles Frost. For over eight years, Meyer’s now-husband worked for the Artists and Repertoire division at 300 Entertainment. He was also an A&R consultant at Warner Music Group.

Deuxmoi released exclusive images from the outdoor wedding, which was attended by A-listers including Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez Bezos, Leonardo DiCaprio, Vittoria Ceretti, Courteney Cox, Kris Jenner, Rachel Zoe, Young Thug, Kate Hudson, Erin Foster, and Danny Fujikawa, among others.


All you need to know about Geoffrey Ogunlesi’s parents

Dr Amelia Quist-Ogunlesi is a retired optometrist. She earned her medical degree from London’s City University and began practising in the city before moving to the United States, where she earned another certification from the SUNY College of Optometry.

Dr Quist-Ogunlesi is a lifetime member of the White House Historical Association and serves on the boards of several reputed institutions, including The Couture Council of The Museum at FIT, The Central Park Conservancy, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, and the nonprofit Partnership to End Addiction.

Amelia tied the knot with Adebayo Ogunlesi in 1985. They have two sons, Geoffrey Ogunlesi and music producer Carl Ogunlesi. The couple lives in New York.

According to Forbes, Adebayo Ogunlesi’s real-time net worth is $2.6 billion. He attended the prominent Nigerian boarding school called Kings College Lagos and later earned his bachelor’s degree from Oxford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr Ogunlesi obtained his JD from Harvard Law School.

His dad, Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi, was a professor of medicine at University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Not much is known about his mom, Susan Olorunfemi Peters.

Now aged 72, Adebayo Ogunlesi is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of the NYC-based private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) and has investments in various sectors such as energy, water, transport, waste management, and digital infrastructure. GIP owns the London Gatwick Airport.

In 2024, BlackRock acquired the company for $12.5 billion. Today, Geoffrey Ogunlesi’s father is a senior managing director at BlackRock.

For several years, Adebayo worked at Credit Suisse as the head of global investment banking. He was later promoted to chief client officer and executive vice chairman. Before that, Ogunlesi served as an attorney at the NYC law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore and as a lecturer at Yale School of Management and Harvard Law School.

Adebayo Ogunlesi served on the board of directors and as lead director at Goldman Sachs. Later, he was named as a member of Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum and the President’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council. Since 2025, he has been on the board of directors of OpenAI.

Jennifer Meyer, 49, welcomed a daughter with Geoffrey Ogunlesi in mid-2026. On Father’s Day, she posted on Instagram:

“A perfect month with our perfect baby girl. We love you the most @geoffo212. Happy Father’s Day.”

They first sparked dating rumors in the summer of 2023 and hard-launched their romance on the red carpet at the Baby2Baby Gala in November of that year.

The couple announced their engagement in August 2024 via Instagram. Back then, fans asked if she designed her engagement ring. Meyer responded:

“It was alllll him! Total surprise.”

The jewellery designer also shares daughter Ruby, 19, and son, Otis, 17, with ex-husband Tobey Maguire. They were married between 2007 and 2016. The divorce was finalized last month, a decade after their separation and six years after the filing.

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Edited by Pallavi K