Tag: bankruptcy

  • Crook Bankrupt

    Crook Bankrupt

    PR man of fat Australian Clive Palmer who wanted to rebuild RMS Titanic goes broke; appropriately his surname is ‘Crook’

     

    In 2013, a larger-than-life Aussie gave a press conference at The Ritz, London after hanging out with a now deceased jailbird Astor scion in New York. He tastelessly announced he was rebuilding the RMS Titanic and when I asked him: “Will it sink it the same place?” he furiously had me banned from his party later that evening at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

     

    In late November, this somewhat now reduced tycoon’s very own PR, a man named Andrew Crook went bankrupt and frankly, given his project to recreate that disastrous voyage in 1912 has come to nothing, one has to ask: “Was it all one big crook?”

     

    That the fat man and failed politician Palmer got nowhere with his boat is one thing but that his sorry old henchman filed for bankruptcy is another. Crook, 50, of Brisbane, is said to have debts of AU$800,000 (£472,000 or $594,000 or €557,000 or درهم‎‎2.2 million). Who’s got that sinking feeling?

     

  • Moron of the Moment: Sam Barton

    Moron of the Moment: Sam Barton

    ‘Britain’s vainest man’ shows his lack of intelligence (again) (more…)

  • Raj Von Badlo (also known as Raj Shastri and Raj Paull)

    Raj Von Badlo (also known as Raj Shastri and Raj Paull)

    Raj ShastriOn his website, Bentley driving Raj Shastri states: “My father told me that if you want to do something, find the best person in the field, then copy and learn from them”. (more…)

  • Wally of the Week: Bankrupting beauty

    Wally of the Week: Bankrupting beauty

    ‘Britain’s vainest’ man Sam Barton set to declare himself bankrupt aged just 22

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  • Nathan Goralnik (AKA “Nate Goralnik”)

    Nathan Goralnik (AKA “Nate Goralnik”)

    Nathan GoralnikBrown and Yale educated Nathan Goralnik joined Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP’s New York office in 2012 (more…)

  • Kira Plastinina (Ки́ра Серге́евна Пласти́нина)

    Kira Plastinina (Ки́ра Серге́евна Пласти́нина)

    Kira PlastininaBorn in 1992, this Russian youngster launched a fashion brand in 2008 and currently has around 300 stores in “a few countries”. Plastinina’s father, a dairy tycoon, once paid Paris Hilton $2 million to attend one of the “teen millionaire’s” launches but her PR strategy hasn’t been exactly great. Of her designs, the Los Angeles Times had a one word description: “Ugly” and as a result the brand filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in 2009. She relaunched in 2013 with another brand named Lublu – Russian for “I love you” – in Dallas and claims that this time she’s got “more insight and [will] be more strategic and focused”. Perhaps a few more hours in the classroom are required yet.

  • Sunning it

    Sunning it

    Anthea Turner and Grant Bovey move on (yet again)

     

    To most, both “sunrise” and “sundown” are beautiful spectacles. For Anthea Turner, these are words she’d probably rather forget. (more…)

  • As safe as Stockinger

    As safe as Stockinger

    Stockinger’s safes represent the most secure of investments

     

    Masterpiece 2013 closes today. This impressive showcase is something that has been crammed to the brim with some of the finest works of art, design and antiques currently on the market, but given that many of these items are of immense value, they need to be protected. German high-end safe producer Stockinger offer just the solution.

     
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  • Jesse Livermore (1877 – 1940)

    Jesse Livermore (1877 – 1940)

    Jesse LivermoreOne of the greatest traders ever to have lived. This thrice married American was famed for making and losing several multi-million dollar fortunes and once stated: “People who look for easy money invariably pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth”. Bankers today should pay heed. Nicknamed the “Boy Plunger” and “Great Bear of Wall Street”, Livermore’s end was tragic. A sufferer of clinical depression, Livermore shot himself in a cloakroom at The Sherry-Netherland Hotel in November 1940.

  • Oiling up brings the Karma a Destino

    Oiling up brings the Karma a Destino

    Could a V8 engine save the Fisker brand?

     

    Yesterday, FoxNews.com asked: “Can the internal combustion engine save the electric car?” and answered: “In the case of the Fisker Karma, it just might be”.

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