Over time Isabel Dos Santos asserted to be a self-made businesswoman. Albeit, that was before the revelation by the leaked documents refuted her claims.
This is after an investigation by Guardian and other partners; revealed the fishy business behind her empire as reported by Guardian.
The former Angola President, Jose Eduardo Dos Santos eldest daughter, is at the centre of the controversy and investigation following the release of documents dubbed Luanda Leaks by the international consortium of an investigative journalist (ICIJ).
Luanda Leaks is an avalanche of thousands of emails, charts, contracts, audits and accounts, that detailed the making of a $2billion expansive and wealth corporation by Dos Santos according to The Guardian.
"She took a cut of Angola’s wealth, often through decrees signed by her father. She acquired stakes in the country’s diamond exports, its dominant mobile phone company, two of its banks and its biggest cement maker, and partnered with the state oil giant to buy into Portugal’s largest petroleum company," New York Times said.
BBC reported that leaked documents showed how Ms Isabel Dos Santos took advantage of her country at the expense of the poor Angolan populace.
An accusation that Isabel has since denied noting that she build her wealth corporation through investment and with the help of his husband; the art collector Congolese Sindika Dokolo.
It has also been said that she took advantage of her father's position to enrich and reinvest the money through then government and her banks after Western banks locked her out.
She termed Angolan government move to freeze their assets as a merely political witch hunt.
"I can say my holdings are commercial, there are no proceeds from contracts or public contracts or money that has been deviated from other funds," Isabel told BBC.
In addition, it is reported that the couples have been accused of living large at the expense of deplorable Angolans. She lives in the UK and they do operate a vast business that stretches from Angola across Africa, to Europe and the Middle East.
Not to forget, that she has a stake in oil, mobile phone companies and banks in Angola and Portugal.