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BUSINESS

No. 22 - Gina Rinehart

Whatever she does, “The House of Hancock comes first.” This little known Australian daughter of a bush pilot and prospector is now the world’s...
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OBSERVERS

No. 40 - The Rt. Hon. Gregory Barker (AKA “Greg Barker”)

Gregory Barker worked for Roman Abramovich at the Sibneft Oil Group and as Energy Minister, took his daschund, Otto, to work at the Houses of...
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BUSINESS

No. 9 - Dmitry Rybolovlev

This billionaire businessman started out in medicine but soon moved into commerce realising that enterprise would better provide for his family. He was imprisoned...
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CAMPAIGNERS

No. 36 - Bono (Paul David Hewson)

This Irishman is one of the world’s best-known philanthropic performers. Having invested £56 million in Facebook in 2009, he’s now the richest living musician....
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BUSINESS

No. 10 - Andrey Melnichenko

This billionaire co-founded one of Russia’s largest private banks, MDM Bank, in 1993, and has interests in companies producing mineral fertilisers and extracting coal....
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OBSERVERS

No. 11 - Nicolas Niarchos

Born in New York in 1989 and the grandson of "The Golden Greek," shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos, Nicolas Niarchos writes for The Guardian, The...
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BUSINESS

No. 52 - James Murdoch

Considered by many as the pretender to the fortune of his father, Rupert, the phone hacking scandal may have put paid to that. He...
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THE BOLD AND THE DARING

No. 54 - Lord & Lady Black (Conrad Black & Barbara Amiel)

She’s a British-Canadian journalist most famous for having an “extravagance that knows no bounds.” He was a media baron who denounced his Canadian citizenship...
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BUSINESS

No. 25 - Sidney Frank (1919 – 2006)

A self-made billionaire, Frank was the Hugh Heffner of the booze industry. He had major successes with both Jägermeister and Grey Goose vodka. A...
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TYCOONS

No. 27 - Nick & Christian Candy

Started a property empire with a loan of £6,000 from their grandmother in 1995. Now said to be worth anything upto £13 billion, this...
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Heroine of the Hour 2021 – Anita Rani

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Anita Rani arrives as a BBC Radio 4 ‘Woman’s Hour’ morning show presenter and announces: “If you’ve had enough, pour yourself a G&T, you have my permission.”
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Runners & Riders – The Classic Chase 2021 at Warwick

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‘The Steeple Times’ examines the tipsters’ selections and offers 4 options for The Classic Chase 2021 at Warwick – as well as a 15/1 at Market Rasen.
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MacBook Maxwell

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Mucky madam Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers demand she gets access to a laptop seven days per week; one can assume she’ll expect a ritzy MacBook Pro.
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Moron of the Moment – Shaun Bailey

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Pontificating pillock Shaun Bailey proves himself unfit to be Mayor of London after curiously claiming impoverished homeless people can and should save £5,000 to get a home.
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    The Roll Call - TYCOONS

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    Eccentric heiress Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922) – Widow of Winchester firearm magnate Sarah Winchester is best known for her eccentric mansion, The Winchester Mystery House, in San Jose, California.

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    Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922)
    Hetty Green (AKA Henrietta Green, ‘The Witch of Wall Street,’ née Henrietta Robinson, 1834 – 1916) – “The greatest miser” and “richest woman in America” during the Gilded Age, Hetty Green lived by the rule of “buy cheap and sell dear.”

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    Hetty Green (AKA Henrietta Green, ‘The Witch of Wall Street,’ née Henrietta Robinson, 1834 – 1916)
    Business titan Denise Coates CBE (AKA ‘The Patron of the Potteries’) – The richest self-made woman in the UK paid herself £217 million in 2016 and is said to have a personal fortune of circa £3.17 billion. She founded Bet365.com, one of the world’s largest online gambling companies, in 2000.

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    Denise Coates
    Reclusive “leisure entrepreneur” and racing obsessive Trevor Hemmings

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    Trevor Hemmings CVO
    Herb Chambers

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    Herb Chambers (born Herbert G. Chambers)
    Leslie Wexner (AKA “Les” Wexner)

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    Leslie Wexner (AKA “Les” Wexner)
    Nicolas Berggruen (AKA “The Homeless Billionaire”)

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    Nicolas Berggruen (AKA “The Homeless Billionaire”)
    Sir Martin Sorrell

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    Sir Martin Sorrell (AKA “The Third Brother”)
    John Pappajohn

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    John Pappajohn

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    Sir John Ritblat FRICS, FSVA

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    Rich Ricci

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    Richard Desmond (nicknamed “Mr Badger”)

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    Howard Raymond

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    Richard Caring

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    Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken

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    Urs Schwarzenbach

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    Wafic Saïd

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    James Sherwood

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    Crispin Odey

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    Vincent Tchenguiz

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    Leona Helmsley (1920 – 2007)

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    Gina Rinehart

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    Alan Miller

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    Owen Oyston

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    Sidney Frank (1919 – 2006)

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    Robert Maxwell (1923 – 1991)

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    Nick & Christian Candy

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    Rupert Murdoch