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BUSINESS

No. 16 - Urs Schwarzenbach

This Swiss born son of a printer has spent over £85 million buying up properties in the Henley-on-Thames area of Oxfordshire. Schwarzenbach also owns...
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EDITORIAL

Bravo the Beeb

Matthew Steeples reacts to the BBC quietly dropping the “Sir”   This morning when I turned on Radio 4’s Today programme, as has become customary in...
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OPULENCE & SPLENDOUR

Now who’d want to live in a house like this?

Matthew Steeples discovers a penthouse that even the most ambitious estate agent may struggle to flog   Estate agents are a tough breed and there are...
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OPULENCE & SPLENDOUR

“As it ‘appens,” sir, Jimmy’s ‘ad you too

The purchaser of Sir Jimmy Savile’s Rolls-Royce whinges about his lacking lot   As 14 police forces announce that they are investigating an astonishing 340 leads...
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EDITORIAL

Now then, now then, not now then

Matthew Steeples shares his somewhat mixed thoughts on the allegations against Sir Jimmy Savile   When Sir Jimmy Savile’s 2002 Rolls-Royce Corniche went to auction in...
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CREATIVES

No. 87 - William Roache MBE (better known as Ken Barlow)

“Cock Roache” as he’s known (he’s supposedly bedded over 1,000 women) has been in Coronation Street since December 1960. He’s the world’s longest serving...
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CHARACTERS

No. 67 - Nancy Wake AC GM (1912 – 2011)

Churchill’s most highly decorated special agent. A resistance heroine who lived at The Stafford Hotel from 2001 to 2003 and regaled visitors with tales...
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OPULENCE & SPLENDOUR

The greenest of Astons

The sale of an Aston Martin Virage Volante used by Prince Charles   A press release pinged into my inbox this morning from Bonhams that immediately...
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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