He’s the self-made billionaire who, along with his brother, built an enormous property empire from the ground-up – starting with the renovation of a £122,000 central London apartment. Now Christian Candy is said to have finished work on his own home – a massive £150million estate in the south east of England, now thought to … Read more
Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky raises stake in Royal Mail to £100m as postal service battles biggest crisis since privatisation By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 21:56 BST, 16 May 2020 Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky has raised his stake in Royal Mail to above £100 million as … Read more
His handlebar moustache ‘disguise’ has long gone. So, too, the £10,000 ostrich-hide jacket he was sporting when his whereabouts as a ‘fugitive’ in England were first uncovered. But then Nirav Modi’s entire life has changed beyond recognition. Most significantly, his place of residence for the past 14 months has not been the Manhattan apartment he … Read more
Czech billionaire launches raid on Royal Mail, buying more than 5% of postal service By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:57 BST, 2 May 2020 | Updated: 21:57 BST, 2 May 2020 A Czech billionaire who owns Sparta Prague football club has launched a raid on Royal Mail, buying more than 5 per … Read more
James M. Cain, the prolific pulp fiction author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, wrote that ‘whatever else may be said about Malibu… it is probably the finest beach ever created’. Cain was writing in the Thirties, but his description might not be too far off today. In fact, Malibu has a number of beautiful … Read more
Forbes Magazine reveals Kanye West has officially become a BILLIONAIRE …after the rapper’s team provided financial documents as proof showing he’s now worth $1.26bn Rapper Kanye West is now worth $1.26 billion, according to a Friday report by Forbes Magazine Comes after sister-in-law Kylie Jenner, 22, was named by Forbes as the youngest ‘self-made’ billionaire for … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK NOTES FROM AN APOCALYPSE by Mark O’Connell (Granta £14.99, 272 pp) Within the nuttier corners of the internet, not to mention the wild imaginations of the super-rich, the global spread of coronavirus might seem to vindicate long-held fears (or fantasies) about the end of the world as we know it — … Read more