Pioneer of pizza in Britain places £1.15 million Lancashire home on the market (more…)
Tag: 1974
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Alexandra Tolstoy FRGS
The daughter of the contentious author Count Nikolai Tolstoy, divorcée Alexandra Tolstoy is a woman who ridiculously claims to struggle to live on £10,000 per week. (more…) -
Mount Vernon: The real Southfork
Dallas mansion with a prayer room and the largest private bowling centre in America that was previously owned by a billionaire oil baron remains for sale despite a price cut of £7 million (more…)
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Patricia Campbell Hearst-Shaw (better known as Patty Hearst)
One of the most famous kidnap and Stockholm syndrome victims ever, Patty Hearst is the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst (more…) -
Ronnie Spector
Born in Spanish Harlem, big haired Ronnie Spector is a singer and a survivor. (more…) -
Felix Dennis (1947 – 2014)
This maverick publishing legend and poet founded Dennis Publishing in 1974 and was the first person to say the word “cunt” on live British television in 1970 on David Frost’s The Frost Programme. Born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Felix Dennis was jailed but subsequently acquitted in a trial relating to a sexually explicit Rupert the Bear cartoon strip during his time working at the OZ underground magazine and went on to create great titles such as Maxim and The Week. He planted over 1,000,000 native saplings in his attempt to establish a large native forest in Warwickshire and owned one of the largest collections of original bronze sculptures. Dennis – who was said to be worth in excess of £750 million – famously once spelt Che Guevara’s name wrong and once stated: “Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake”. He is to be “buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in [his] forest with an oak tree planted on [his] head”. -
Lady Camilla Bloch (born Lady Camilla Bingham)
Hampstead based and a barrister by profession, Oxford educated Lady Bloch is the daughter of suspected murderer Lord Lucan. Asked how she’d describe her father to her son, Bloch told The Scotsman: “I’ll tell Cameron that his grandfather was tall, dark and handsome – a professional gambler who loved powerboating and the Cresta Run in St Moritz”. Of her father himself, she told The Mail on Sunday: “He has never been able to defend himself and the evidence was not conclusive. It was circumstantial”. -
A Northern Downton
The sale of one of the North of England’s finest Georgian homes
Julian Fellowes’ Downton Abbey has undoubtedly led to a revival in interest in English country houses both in Britain and America and now with the sale of Burrow Hall in the Lune Valley in Lancashire, there is an opportunity to acquire one of the North of England’s finest Georgian residences.
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Paedophile Stuart Hall guilty
Stuart Hall admits 14 counts of indecent assault
The former It’s A Knockout and BBC Five Live presenter (James) Stuart Hall OBE admitted to being a rapist and paedophile this morning.
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Clifford’s chickens come home to roost
Max Clifford charged with 11 counts of indecent assault
We recently criticised Operation Yewtree for failing to take proper action against anyone since it began. Now, with Max Clifford having been charged with 11 counts of indecent assault, progress has at last been made.