In March 2024, Justin Kluivert paid €2,250,000 for an apartment on Amsterdam’s Stadhouderskade. The property had been under legal seizure by Dutch prosecutors for nearly a decade. His mother, Angela van Hulten, had bought it in 2007. It had been frozen in a criminal asset recovery case since 2015. Justin cleared it, took on a mortgage of €2.5 million, and handed her a profit of around €350,000.
For a woman who has never spoken publicly about any chapter of her life, that one transaction summed up most of it.
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A Football Upbringing in Amsterdam
Angela van Hulten was born in Amsterdam in the late 1970s, the daughter of Willem van Hulten, a former Dutch footballer. Football ran through her upbringing well before she became recognisable for anything else. In Amsterdam football circles, she was known as a ballenmeisje, the Dutch term for a ball girl, a fixture of local club culture from a young age.
Her relationship with Patrick Kluivert began in the late 1990s. By then, Kluivert was already one of the most recognised strikers in European football. He had scored the UEFA Champions League winning goal for Ajax in 1995, at just 18 years old, and signed for FC Barcelona in 1998 as one of the club’s highest-profile arrivals.
The Marriage, the Divorce, and What Came After
Angela and Patrick Kluivert married in 2000. Together they had three sons:
- Quincy Kluivert, born May 20, 1997, Amsterdam
- Justin Kluivert, born May 5, 1999, Zaandam
- Ruben Kluivert, born May 21, 2001, Amsterdam
The marriage ended in 2004. No reason was ever made public by either side. Patrick Kluivert moved on, later marrying Brazilian Rossana Lima in 2008. The couple have a son, Shane, who is currently in FC Barcelona’s youth academy. Angela stayed in Amsterdam with Quincy, Justin, and Ruben. She raised the three boys largely on her own while their father built a post-playing career across several countries as a coach and sporting director.
Justin spoke about her in an interview with De Volkskrant when he was still a teenager at Ajax. “She means everything to me. I live with her, my parents are divorced. Every morning breakfast is ready, or she makes an appointment for me at the dentist.”
In 2007, Angela bought a luxury apartment on the Stadhouderskade in Amsterdam for approximately €1,875,000. The property covered 206 square metres, with four bedrooms, two bathrooms, an open kitchen, a terrace overlooking the Vondelpark, and two underground parking spaces.
Three Sons, Three Careers
All three of Angela van Hulten’s sons with Patrick Kluivert became professional footballers, though their careers have gone in very different directions.
Quincy Kluivert (28) plays as a right-back at AVV Zeeburgia Amsterdam. His career, which included time at Vitesse, never broke through at professional level. He has played at amateur level for Zeeburgia since July 2024.
Justin Kluivert (26) plays as a winger for AFC Bournemouth in the Premier League. In November 2024, he became the first player in Premier League history to score a hat-trick of penalties, in a 4-2 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers. It was the first time the feat had been achieved in English top-flight football in 67 years. In January 2025, he scored another hat-trick in open play against Newcastle United, earning the EA Sports Player of the Month award. He got engaged in June 2024.
Ruben Kluivert (24) signed for Olympique Lyon in Ligue 1 in July 2025 for a reported fee of €3.78 million. He plays as a centre-back and scored his first goal for the club in an Europa League win over RB Salzburg in October 2025.
Danny Kuiters and the Zaak Andes Investigation
Around 2009, Angela began a relationship with Danny Kuiters, an Amsterdam-born criminal who had recently been released from a prison sentence.
Who Danny Kuiters Was
Danny Hubertus Frederik Kuiters, nicknamed “De Magere” (The Thin One), was the son of career criminal Peter Kuiters. He had prior convictions for an armed robbery at a Rabobank in Vinkeveen in 1992 and a second armed robbery at a Geldnet branch in Amsterdam-West in 1996. During those prison years, he received visits from prominent figures in Dutch organised crime, including Dick Vrij, Dino Soerel, and Willem Holleeder.
After Kuiters’ release in 2009, the National Detective Agency (Nationale Recherche) placed him under continuous surveillance.
The Investigation
The criminal investigation codenamed “Andes” was launched in October 2009 by the Haarlem Public Prosecution Service, run by a team of 13 prosecutors. Over several years, the case built out to cover:
- Large-scale money laundering totalling over €3.2 million
- Extortion and violent threats against multiple individuals
- Preparation for cocaine importation via hollowed-out industrial machinery sourced from Turkey
- Connections to the extortion and assault of former Hells Angels Amsterdam president Theo Huisman
Willem Holleeder was drawn into the Andes case over his alleged role in the Huisman extortion.
The Arrests: May 2013
On May 27, 2013, more than 450 police officers carried out over 40 simultaneous searches across six Dutch cities: Amsterdam, Hilversum, Beverwijk, Amersfoort, Rijnsburg, and Breda. Kuiters was arrested at his penthouse at Residence Trompenberg in Hilversum.
Angela van Hulten was arrested the same morning. Dutch crime publication Camilleri reported she was approximately seven months pregnant at the time of her arrest. She gave birth to a son with Kuiters later that year. The child’s name has never been made public.
What Angela Was Charged With
The Haarlem court indictment named Angela directly in charges linked to Kuiters. She was accused of joint habitual money laundering, specifically the receipt of assets funded by criminal proceeds:
- An apartment in Hilversum and associated household goods
- A static caravan and a bungalow in Loosdrecht
- Boats, phones, and other assets
- Jewellery worth tens of thousands of euros
Dutch magazine Grazia reported from court proceedings that Angela and two other women, all partners or former partners of Kuiters, had received holidays and expensive cars paid for with criminal money.
The Verdicts
The Haarlem court issued its first conviction in March 2015. Danny Kuiters was found guilty of leading a criminal organisation and sentenced to 4.5 years. Angela was convicted at the same stage.
The Court of Appeal (Gerechtshof) delivered its final ruling in July 2017, confirmed by RTL Boulevard, Beau Monde, Grazia, and Shownieuws citing De Telegraaf:
- Danny Kuiters: 54 months imprisonment
- Angela van Hulten: 7 months imprisonment, 3 months suspended
Angela was convicted of gewoontewitwassen, habitual money laundering. Her sentence was the lightest of the three women convicted in the case.
The Apartment: Seized, Frozen, Then Sold
Shortly after the 2015 first instance conviction, Angela listed her Stadhouderskade apartment for sale at €1.8 million. The Public Prosecutor moved to place a legal seizure on the property, securing up to €595,602 in criminal asset recovery payments before any sale could proceed.
The apartment stayed frozen in legal proceedings for years. In 2021, the financial case was finally resolved after Angela reached a settlement with the Public Prosecution Service. The exact amount paid was never disclosed publicly.
Three years later, in March 2024, Justin Kluivert bought the apartment for €2,250,000. Angela had paid approximately €1,875,000 for it in 2007. The sale gave her a profit of around €350,000, and cleared the last legal chapter from a case that had run for the better part of a decade.
Angela van Hulten in 2026
Angela van Hulten keeps no known public social media presence. She has given no interviews and made no public statements since the Andes case concluded.
As of October 2025, Dutch media confirmed she remains in a relationship with Danny Kuiters. Kuiters, who received a 54-month sentence in 2017 and had already served substantial pre-trial custody from 2013, had by all indications completed his sentence well before the 2021 settlement year.
Her three sons with Patrick Kluivert are all working footballers in 2026: one in the Premier League making history, one in Ligue 1 at one of France’s biggest clubs, one playing on weekends back in Amsterdam.
She raised all three of them in that city, mostly alone, while their father built a career abroad. None of that was ever news. What was news was the criminal case, the apartment seizure, the conviction. The fuller story of Angela van Hulten is quieter than the headlines, longer than the case, and, as of March 2024, finally settled.
Sources: RTL Boulevard, Beau Monde, Grazia, Shownieuws (citing De Telegraaf), Bekende Buren, Goals and Glamour, Grandlife, Voetbalflitsen, De Volkskrant (via Goals and Glamour), Haarlem court indictment records (via Bondtehond), Camilleri, Wikipedia (Justin Kluivert, Ruben Kluivert), Transfermarkt (Quincy Kluivert).
