This billionaire was born in Damascus in 1939 and declares his loves to be music, architecture, art and horse racing. His home is the £50 million neo-Georgian mansion Tusmore Park near Bicester in Oxfordshire and he supposedly paid Robbie Williams in excess of a million to perform at his daughter’s May 2012 wedding to PR Khaled Khawaja at The Palace of Versailles. Saïd was one of Margaret Thatcher’s biggest supporters but is also said to have been a confidant of Peter Mandelson. As chairman of Saïd Holdings Limited, he presides over an empire with investments in hedge funds and real estates but he’s better known for the £23 million endowment he provided to establish the Saïd Business School in Oxford in 1996.
The Roll Call - TYCOONS
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Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922)
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Hetty Green (AKA Henrietta Green, ‘The Witch of Wall Street,’ née Henrietta Robinson, 1834 – 1916)
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Denise Coates
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Trevor Hemmings CVO
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Herb Chambers (born Herbert G. Chambers)
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Leslie Wexner (AKA “Les” Wexner)
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Nicolas Berggruen (AKA “The Homeless Billionaire”)
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Sir Martin Sorrell (AKA “The Third Brother”)
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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
