Worth some £5 billion, Leslie Wexner has been described as “very shy” and “certainly not the showing off type of American”. A father of four whose money was managed by Jeffrey Epstein until he was jailed for child sex offences and prostitution in 2008, Wexner was born in Dayton, Ohio and now resides between a £30.7 million mock Georgian mansion he built in 1990 just outside Columbus, Ohio and the a shooting estate in Warwickshire, England that he acquired for £3 million in 1997. He started his clothing empire in 1963 with a loan of $5,000 from an aunt and acquired Victoria’s Secret for $1 million in 1982. A supporter of the arts, a philanthropist and the owner of a 315-foot long mega-yacht named Limitless, Wexner transformed the brand into a global phenomenon and – as of October 2015 – controls some 41% of America’s £8.5 billion a year lingerie market. Where there’s bras, there’s money; lots of money.

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The Roll Call - TYCOONS

1

Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922)

2

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

3

Denise Coates

4

Trevor Hemmings CVO

5

Herb Chambers (born Herbert G. Chambers)

6

Leslie Wexner (AKA “Les” Wexner)

7

Nicolas Berggruen (AKA “The Homeless Billionaire”)

8

Sir Martin Sorrell (AKA “The Third Brother”)

9

John Pappajohn

10

Sir John Ritblat FRICS, FSVA

11

Rich Ricci

12

Richard Desmond (nicknamed “Mr Badger”)

13

Howard Raymond

14

Richard Caring

15

Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken

16

Urs Schwarzenbach

17

Wafic Saïd

18

James Sherwood

19

Crispin Odey

20

Vincent Tchenguiz

21

Leona Helmsley (1920 – 2007)

22

Gina Rinehart

23

Alan Miller

24

Owen Oyston

25

Robert Maxwell (1923 – 1991)

26

Sidney Frank (1919 – 2006)

27

Nick & Christian Candy

28

Rupert Murdoch