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20 unusual facts about Robert Maxwell


Andrey Lukanov

During his time in the foreign service, Lukanov had gained connections with western businessmen such as Robert Maxwell and engaged in controversial business dealings.

Bill Reilly

Reilly left Macmillan in 1990, following the firm's purchase by Robert Maxwell's Maxwell Communications, and was succeeded by David Shaffer as the company's president and chief operating officer.

Fourth Estate

The book is a fictionalization from episodes in the lives of two real-life Press Barons: Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch.

James Alfred Davidson

Davidson's visitors in Dhaka in the early days included John Stonehouse and Robert Maxwell.

Jon Bannenberg

From the 1970s onwards he designed large yachts for clients such as Larry Ellison, Malcolm Forbes, Bennett S. LeBow, Adnan Khashoggi and Robert Maxwell

Lady Mona K

Under the name Lady Ghislaine (named after his daughter), she became both the epitome of his power, as well as the place of his death for the billionaire British media tycoon Robert Maxwell.

London Daily News

The London Daily News was a short-lived London newspaper owned by Robert Maxwell.

Mike Molloy

In 1985, Robert Maxwell appointed Molloy Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, where he introduced colour printing.

Mirrorsoft

Mirrorsoft was a computer game software publisher in the United Kingdom, founded by Jim Mackonochie and Robert Maxwell in 1982 and owned by Mirror Group Newspapers.

Montreal Daily News

Quebecor founder Pierre Péladeau and British tabloid publisher Robert Maxwell teamed up to launch a competing English-language newspaper against The Gazette.

Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers

He presided over several complex fraud trials including those covering the Robert Maxwell pension fund fraud and Barlow Clowes.

Nisha Pillai

Her nine-month investigation into financial affairs of media proprietor Robert Maxwell was presented as "The Max Factor", which won an award from the Royal Television Society in 1991.

Noel Whitcomb

Whitcomb’s career at the Daily Mirror came to an end in 1980, reportedly when its new owner, Robert Maxwell, objected to his expense account.

Officers and Gentlemen

At this time he meets Corporal of Horse (Sgt equivalent) Ludovic (based on the man who grew up to be notorious MP and press tycoon Robert Maxwell) and they and a few others escape in a small boat, a most perilous undertaking.

Patricia Hodge

She has appeared in roles as diverse as in The Naked Civil Servant opposite John Hurt,as Myra Arundel in the 1984 BBC version of Noel Coward's Hay Fever, as Margaret Thatcher in The Falklands Play, and in 2007 as Betty, the wife of tycoon Robert Maxwell, in the BBC TV drama Maxwell opposite David Suchet.

Robert Echlin

He was the ancestor of the Earls of Farnham.

Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham

He remained in the British House of Commons until 1768, being re-elected in 1761 and supporting the governments of Lord Bute and George Grenville, though there is no record of his ever having spoken in the House.

He afterwards described the campaign, in a letter to Lord George Sackville, as "a great deal of smoaking, some drinking, and kissing some hundreds of women; but it was to good purpose... I may venture to say that I have now near 150 majority".

Then Jerico

The single "The Big Sweep" was recorded for London but they objected to the lyrical subject matter (an anti-Robert Maxwell/Rupert Murdoch statement).

Tiphook

In light of Tiphook and the Robert Maxwell scandal at the Daily Mirror, the UK Government introduced the earliest stages of legislation covering corporate governance.


Adam Baruch

During the 1980s he was the editor of the weekend supplement "Seven Days" of the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, and was the editor of Maariv for a short period of time in 1992, when the newspaper was owned by Robert Maxwell.

Ari Ben-Menashe

Ben-Menashe claimed that Robert Maxwell, then owner of Mirror Group newspapers in the UK, was a Mossad agent, and that Maxwell had tipped off the Israeli embassy in 1986 about Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu, after Vanunu and a friend approached the Sunday Mirror and The Sunday Times in London with a story about Israel's nuclear capability.

Cross-promotion

In Flat Earth News (2009) Nick Davies wrote that both Tiny Rowland and Robert Maxwell had regularly interfered with their respective UK newspapers to support their business interests.

London Evening News

A newspaper under the same title was briefly revived as a successful spoiler tactic by Associated Newspapers, then owners of all Evening Standard shares, against the London Daily News of Robert Maxwell which quickly closed, followed by its rival.

Magnus Linklater

This was followed by three years at The Observer, before he was recruited to launch and edit the London Daily News, a short-lived newspaper owned by Robert Maxwell.