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Leona Helmsley (1920 – 2007)

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“The Queen of Mean” was a chain-smoking hotelier and real estate tycoon with a reputation for tyrannical behaviour. She took the view that “only the little people pay taxes” but was investigated and convicted of federal income tax evasion in 1989. Sentenced to 16 years, she served just 19 months in prison and 2 months under house arrest. Worth some $8 billion, Helmsley left her Maltese dog, Trouble, $12 million in trust.

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Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922)
Hetty Green (AKA Henrietta Green, ‘The Witch of Wall Street,’ née Henrietta Robinson, 1834 – 1916) – “The greatest miser” and “richest woman in America” during the Gilded Age, Hetty Green lived by the rule of “buy cheap and sell dear.”

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Hetty Green (AKA Henrietta Green, ‘The Witch of Wall Street,’ née Henrietta Robinson, 1834 – 1916)

Business titan Denise Coates CBE (AKA ‘The Patron of the Potteries’) – The richest self-made woman in the UK paid herself £217 million in 2016 and is said to have a personal fortune of circa £3.17 billion. She founded Bet365.com, one of the world’s largest online gambling companies, in 2000.

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Denise Coates
Reclusive “leisure entrepreneur” and racing obsessive Trevor Hemmings

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Trevor Hemmings CVO
Herb Chambers

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Herb Chambers (born Herbert G. Chambers)
Leslie Wexner (AKA “Les” Wexner)

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Leslie Wexner (AKA “Les” Wexner)
Nicolas Berggruen (AKA “The Homeless Billionaire”)

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Nicolas Berggruen (AKA “The Homeless Billionaire”)
Sir Martin Sorrell

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Sir Martin Sorrell (AKA “The Third Brother”)
John Pappajohn

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John Pappajohn

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Sir John Ritblat FRICS, FSVA

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Rich Ricci

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Richard Desmond (nicknamed “Mr Badger”)

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Howard Raymond

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Richard Caring

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Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken

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Urs Schwarzenbach

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Wafic Saïd

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James Sherwood

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Crispin Odey

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Vincent Tchenguiz

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Leona Helmsley (1920 – 2007)

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Gina Rinehart

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Alan Miller

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Owen Oyston

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Robert Maxwell (1923 – 1991)

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Sidney Frank (1919 – 2006)

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Nick & Christian Candy

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Rupert Murdoch
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