Stuart Wheeler, the multi-millionaire gambler, founder of spread-betting firm IG Index and record-breaking Tory donor (before he swapped first to Ukip and, later, the Vote Leave campaign) is very tall, very slim, with sandy hair, baby-soft skin and an incredibly strong handshake. He is also in the middle of a busy day — he’s just … Read more
Billionaire hotelier Surinder Arora has always seen himself as a ‘Mr Optimistic’, but the Government’s plan to introduce 14-day quarantine rules tomorrow is casting a cloud over his business. ‘We are going to be hit, big time,’ says Arora, whose string of airport hotels such as the Renaissance at Heathrow and the Sofitel at Gatwick … Read more
Matalan owner applies for state-backed loan – at same time as he’s being chased by HMRC over £84m tax bill By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:59 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 30 May 2020 The super-rich owner of the Matalan clothing chain has been slammed after applying for a … Read more
James Stunt’s former bodyguard stole a 16-carat yellow diamond worth £515,000 from a safe during a £20million raid on the tycoon’s Belgravia mansion, a court heard. Justinas Ivaskevicius, 34, allegedly swiped the rock at some point between 12 and 15 December 2017. Police attended the address to find no forced entry and interviewed Mr Stunt’s … Read more
Athanasios Tachmintzis’ son Nicholas (above) lived at the property in King Langley, Herts, with the wealthy family A mansion which was left abandoned with plates still in the dishwasher and a Bentley on the driveway was home to a Greek property millionaire, MailOnline can reveal. Villagers told how father-of-five Athanasios Tachmintzis, 70, lived for around 18 … Read more
The millionaire tycoon behind the AMT coffee chain could face bankruptcy over a £1.5m debt to the sister-in-law he branded a ‘gold digger’. Brothers Alistair, Angus and Allan McCallum-Toppin turned their coffee cart in a shopping centre in Oxford into thriving nationwide chain AMT turning over £20million a year. The brothers were equal partners in … Read more
THE billionaire fiancé of lingerie tycoon Baroness Michelle Mone is using taxpayers’ cash to furlough staff, The Sun on Sunday can reveal. Doug Barrowman, 55, is using a Government handout to pay about five workers at his Knox group of companies. Meanwhile, Michelle, 48, has not furloughed any of her team. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus … Read more
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch branded ‘thoroughly unreliable witness’ as £4bn Autonomy fraud trial enters final stages By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 12 December 2019 | Updated: 10:47 BST, 13 December 2019 Mike Lynch was accused of telling ‘lie after lie’ in court yesterday as the £4billion Autonomy fraud trial … Read more
A millionaire property tycoon has escaped the threat of jail in a court fight with the mother of his five kids over their £2.15m Chelsea home. Peter Andreewitch, 57, and long-term partner Magali Moutreuil, 46, got together in 1998 but split after almost 20 years in 2017. The house in Chelsea, in which they raised … Read more
Judged by the standards of most tycoons, insurance entrepreneur Sir Peter Wood, founder of Direct Line, Esure and Go Compare, is a laid-back figure. A fit septuagenarian, he likes nothing better than to spend time on the tennis court or playing golf, and loves personally to direct promotional campaigns as he constantly invents and backs … Read more