Arne Næss Jr.

Arne Næss, Jr. (8 December 1937 – 13 January 2004) was a Norwegian businessman and mountaineer. He had been married to Diana Ross since 1985, had two sons with Ross, but the couple separated at the time of his sudden death. Næss was born in Germany in 1937 to Kiki Næss (1907–2001), a Norwegian physiotherapist, and German Raab (1901–1993), a German physician and a Major in the Wehrmacht. Næss' mother, whose maiden name he would adopt as his own surname, was the sister of philosopher and mountaineer Arne Næss. Næss' family lived in Germany during World War II. His parents divorced after the war and he moved to Norway with his mother. In 1966 he married Filippa Kumlin d'Orey of Sweden, and they had one son and two daughters together, one...