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3 unusual facts about Michael Hastings


Michael Hastings

Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun (1942–2012), English-born Australian rice farmer, Scottish aristocrat and pretender to the ancient Crown of England

Michael Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick

Michael sits on the Council of the Overseas Development Institute in the UK and previously on the Partners Council of the Center for Global Development in the USA.

In 2005, Michael was awarded the honour of an independent peerage to the House of Lords by Her Majesty The Queen, taking the title Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick, of Scarisbrick in the County of Lancashire.


Ryan Shapiro

Shapiro and investigative journalist Jason Leopold filed a joint lawsuit on July 26, 2013 against the FBI for ignoring their FOIA requests concerning a possible file on Michael Hastings, a Rolling Stone journalist who died in a fiery high-speed automobile crash on June 18, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.


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