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...Her husband, Herman, was a book salesman and his brother, Oscar, ran a small press that published avant-garde writers such as Maya Deren and William Carlos Williams....
...Domaine Chandon, Opus One and Dominus are long-standing Napa wineries with French owners or co-owners, respectively Moët-Hennessy, Baron Philippe de Rothschild and Christian Moueix....
...Other media moguls, from William Randolph Hearst to Viacom’s Sumner Redstone, fought against the dying of their influence over rivals, readers and viewers....
...Their son, Baron Alphonse, with his wife (and cousin) Leonora, continued the collecting tradition....
...The 5,000-acre estate originally belonged to a branch of the Wynn family, and the present house was built for William and Kathryn Wynn in 1616....
...The Abbaye estate then passed on to Charlotte’s grandson, Baron Henri de Rothschild, who landscaped the parklands and completed further conservation work on the medieval church ruins....
...Logan Roy was once a poor Scottish immigrant who ended up a media baron with a photo of himself beside a smiling Ronald Reagan on his mantle....
...For many years, Odey Asset Management’s predominantly male workforce included a disproportionate number of Old Etonians and Old Harrovians, as well as employees with every title imaginable: dukes, barons...
...Marshall, who holds a 45 per cent stake in upstart broadcaster GB News and owns digital media group UnHerd, is the latest in a long line of wealthy individuals to turn media baron....
...Complete with marble deities and glinting stars in a faux night sky, it is worthy of the most decadent Roman emperor — or press baron....
...Sanjeev Gupta, the steel baron under investigation by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office, previously held a near 10 per cent stake in the lender....
...He was, incidentally, the only British artist ever to have been ennobled, becoming Baron of Stretton. He died the following day, making it the shortest peerage ever....
...Coal and steel baron Friedrich Flick was at least convicted at Nuremberg for the use of slave labour, among other evils, only to regain his stature and fortune once he had served a commuted seven-year sentence...
...She had done so, prosecutors argued, to afford a luxury life after the death of her father, the British publishing baron and embezzler, Robert Maxwell....
...Additional reporting by William Langley in Hong Kong...
...Fund manager Ron Baron, whose Baron Capital Management has made more than $7bn since first backing Tesla in 2014, is putting forward $100mn....
...Chinese media have blamed the city’s powerful real estate barons — whose political influence was tempered in the city’s latest electoral shake-up — for contributing to the city’s chronic housing shortage...
...Officials had initially said that there was a second explosion at the nearby Baron hotel, where evacuees have congregated....
...By Wednesday, Granholm delivered a different message for America’s fossil fuel barons. “We are on a war footing — an emergency,” she told a packed chamber....
...Like the Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald before him (the inspiration for Werner Herzog’s film Fitzcarraldo), Arthur was implicated in the “madness of a late century cycle of boom and bust”....
...Another blast occurred at or around the nearby Baron hotel, where some evacuees had been congregating....
...And that’s actually a much better insight into prime ministerial effectiveness than anything you’ll see near the West Wing or Baron Noir or whatever, because broadly, successful ministers have projects....
...“The road to justice has been far too long,” Damian Williams, US attorney for the southern district of New York, said in a statement after the verdict was announced....
...Len McCluskey, a union baron who supported Corbyn, says that Streeting was part of “a dismal chorus whose every dirge makes winning a Labour government more difficult”....
...Here is a world of teddy boys and retro swing dresses, with the Marschallin as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike and Baron Ochs a faded, prewar Lothario sporting ginger hair and a garish tartan suit....
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