Woman of the Year, Carole Ghosn

We don't know if Lebanese-Brazilian serial super auto executive Carlos Ghosn is any kind of a criminal or not. The Japanese could easily have an iron-clad case against the plutocrat. Nevertheless, his wife Carole is a modern-day heroine. According to various sources, including the man himself, his lovely wife engineered his escape from his house arrest that began in April after he had spent 120 days in detention. Ghosn had been released on bond of 1.5 billion yen or about $13.5 million, which will be confiscated.

His wife, from her home in the US, had hired a group of mercenaries who posed as a Gregorian band and smuggled Ghosn out of his Tokyo home in a musical instrument case and flew him to Istanbul and thence to Lebanon. It's refreshing to know that there are some women who are willing to assume risks themselves for their husbands, a practice that seems to have disappeared in the civilized world.