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...It is unclear what assets he may still have access to via a series of opaque family trusts controlled by his mother in Austria and Liechtenstein....
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...of inner-city construction projects and luxury addresses — from designer shopping precincts to 5-star hotels — which Benko once boasted was rivalled in prestige only by the holdings of the British royal family...
...It is unclear how much money remains in his opaque family trusts, however, which are held in his mother’s name in Austria and Liechtenstein....
...Sebastian Conway, the National Trust manager of 2 Willow Road, claims this is the London heritage property visitors say they would most like to live in....
...“You would invite them round to the house, have drinks, introduce the family, make them realise you are a human being, cultivate trust. It was basic,” said an eighth western agent....
...Brescia is close to the Lake Garda villa that Signa Holding reportedly rents at a cost of €20,000 a month from a Liechtenstein trust....
...Benko remains Signa’s largest shareholder, through a web of holding companies in Austria, Switzerland and offshore, which link back to his family trusts in Liechtenstein....
...trusts in Liechtenstein....
...Among them are some of Europe’s wealthiest family offices such as the Rausings and the Peugeots....
...Central Group, owned by the Chirathivat family, on Tuesday said it will become the majority owner of Selfridges Group — which also includes retailers De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands, as well as Brown Thomas...
...The government introduced the “loan charge” in 2019 in a bid to clamp down on so-called “disguised remuneration” schemes, which involved workers across a range of sectors being paid in loans via offshore trusts...
...Benko’s foundation is still the majority owner through a network of trusts and holding companies in Austria, Liechtenstein and offshore, according to Signa....
...Other key elements of the Signa network, a multi-layered ownership structure of more than 1,000 corporate entities and trusts in Europe, the US and offshore, are still operational, however....
...Last year, Jones was ordered to pay almost $1.5bn in damages to the families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting, which he claimed was a hoax....
...She and her husband Leonard published the first UK edition of “The Waste Land”, and of those 470 copies, Jones possesses three, including the Eliot “family copy” and another once owned by Woolf’s sister,...
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...The company grew fast, offering innovative ways of in-game betting, market-leading competitive odds and aggressive advertising to keep the punters coming back fronted by film star Ray Winstone....
...Murdoch and his family trust control about 40 per cent of the voting shares in News Corp, a source of concern for some shareholders who complain of a “Murdoch discount” that keeps the valuation of companies...
...Every family in America thinks about its net worth. Every, I should say, middle-class family, middle and upper-class family in America thinks of their net worth in the context the value of their house....
...And yet the Baur au Lac, still owned by the same family today, played a major role in the life and work of Richard Wagner. A regular guest at the hotel was Wagner’s friend and backer, Franz Liszt....
...For the youngest recipients, a birthday cake can be transformative, as Jones discovered when volunteering for The Sick Children’s Trust, a charity that provides families of seriously ill children with places...
...“We are the leader of the free world, we are the ones who are supposed to be protecting kids,” said one 41-year-old Palestinian-American tech engineer with family in Gaza, who declined to be named out of...
...Val Jones, team leader at the trust, said it was now running a waiting list — the first time it had ever had to ask clients to join a queue. Its funding is constantly on a knife-edge....
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