Calil was also a very close friend to late tycoons as Sir James Goldsmith, John Aspinall and Mark Birley.
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Calil was generally believed to be the character nicknamed Smelly in the prison notes of Simon Mann, the leading mercenary of the planned coup-d'etat.
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In 2006 he sold his Chelsea home, Sloane House, for an estimated £45 million to Sir Anthony Bamford, the JCB diggers boss.
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His powerful circle of friends includes Britain's First Secretary of State Peter Mandelson, the son of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Baron Mark Thatcher and Lord Archer.
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