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Nov 5, 2021 · 30 years ago, the crooked tycoon who owned the Mirror Robert Maxwell - father to Ghislaine Maxwell - fell off his yacht. But was it an accident, suicide, or something more sinister?
- The Poor Czech Boy with A Big Dream
- Tragedy Strikes The Maxwells
- Maxwell's Rivalry with Rupert Murdoch
- Mogul's Big Spending Spree
- House of Cards Collapses
- Like Father, Like Daughter
He was the poor boy from Czechoslovakia who escaped the Nazis, built a vast business empire and went on to become one of the biggest names in the United Kingdom. Born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch to impoverished Yiddish-speaking parents, Maxwell was selling trinkets on the streets of Bratislava in 1939 when the Nazis marched in. Almost every memb...
Together, they had nine children, though only seven made it to adulthood. By the time baby Ghislaine was born in 1961, her doting father had gone from impoverished refugee, to war hero, to self-made millionaire. However, not long after her birth, tragedy struck the young family. Her older brother, Michael, was crushed in a car accident that would l...
Nearly 20 years before he bought the yacht that would play a role in his downfall, Maxwell was set on becoming England's Prime Minister. The self-described socialist joined the Labour party in 1959, winning the seat of Buckingham five years later. His political career seemed all but assured until Harold Wilson lost in 1970. By then, Maxwell's busin...
The competition between Murdoch and Maxwell was in full swing by the latter half of the 1980s. "[Maxwell] picked up journalism quite quickly … he began to know what good front pages were," former editor of The People, Bill Haggarty, told the BBC's Witness program. It was the era of rampant capitalism, excess consumption and the belief that "greed i...
Weeks after Maxwell's body was fished out of the Atlantic, his secrets began to surface. First came revelations that he had plundered hundreds of millions of dollars from the Mirror Group's pension fund. Vast sums of cash had reportedly been funnelled to the family's trusts in Liechtenstein. All up, he was more than $1.8 billion in debt. Days befor...
With their patriarch dead, the House of Maxwell began to crumble. "He is always painted as a saviour, coming from the skies," Jim Boumelha, the former head of the Pergamon Press chapter of the National Union of Journalists in Britain, told the New York Times. "But it always ends in tears." Kevin, the anointed heir to the Mirror Group, became Britai...
Feb 2, 2021 · The more timely reason is that now, almost 30 years since Maxwell died at sea in unexplained circumstances, it is possible to look back on his story and the fraud as a great, sweeping whole,...
In 1991, his body was discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean, having apparently fallen overboard from his yacht. He was buried in Jerusalem. Maxwell's death triggered the collapse of his publishing empire as banks called in loans.
Apr 5, 2022 · Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch) was a British media mogul and former MP, whose fraudulent business activity only became public after his death.
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Feb 8, 2021 · No-one had ever fallen so far and so quickly. John Preston's gripping biography sets out to give the definitive account of Robert Maxwell's rise and fall and to explain why underneath this ...
Mar 10, 2006 · One concluded he died of a heart attack, another said he suffered a heart attack and drowned while a third dismissed the heart condition as a cause of death saying Maxwell had fallen into...
