Billionaire owner of retailer Matalan seeks £60m cash as closures bite Matalan, run by the billionaire Hargreaves family, is seeking as much as £60m It said it had been forced to close 232 stores but continues to sell clothing online Matalan has furloughed staff has drafted a number of forecasts to assess the impact of lockdown … Read more
Kim Kardashian shared rare photo with Kylie Jenner on National Siblings Day, which fell on Friday. The 39-year-old Mrs Kanye West is being held by the 22-year-old billionaire makeup mogul in front of a red background. The caption read, ‘I love you sis.’ The image was taken to promote their joint fragrance launch last year where … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK NOTES FROM AN APOCALYPSE by Mark O’Connell (Granta £14.99, 272 pp) Within the nuttier corners of the internet, not to mention the wild imaginations of the super-rich, the global spread of coronavirus might seem to vindicate long-held fears (or fantasies) about the end of the world as we know it — … Read more
She’s just sold 51% of her make-up company, banking an incredible $600million. So how does Kylie Jenner’s huge payday compare to the rest of the Kardashian family? Kylie Jenner; Estimated net worth 1.2billion and counting Like all her sisters, Kylie, 22, makes money from the family reality show, modelling gigs, and endorsements. However this is … Read more
An English countess tells how she ‘lost herself’ in a ‘vulgar’ life of excess during her relationship with a Russian oligarch in a new BBC documentary. Aristocratic beauty Alexandra Tolstoy, 45, daughter of Count Nikolai Tolstoy and a distant relation of author Leo Tolstoy, fell in love with billionaire Sergei Pugachev, 57, while working as his … Read more
Sir Philip Green provoked outrage today as he demanded emergency taxpayer help to pay the wages of 14,500 workers he has furloughed during the coronavirus lockdown. Furious Twitter users suggested the disgraced businessman should sell one of his three yachts, which include the £122million Lionheart, or use some of his estimated £1.8billion fortune rather than … Read more
Sir Philip Green provoked outrage today as he demanded emergency taxpayer help to pay the wages of 14,500 workers he has furloughed during the coronavirus lockdown. Furious Twitter users suggested the disgraced businessman should sell one of his three yachts, which include the £122million Lionheart, or use some of his estimated £1.8billion fortune rather than … Read more
Lockdown in luxury: Billionaire Russian oil baron’s superyacht worth £140million and measuring 272ft in length is spotted moored off Dorset with those on board ‘self-isolating’ It is not known whether the owner, Alexander Dzhaparidze, is on board the yacht in Poole Quay, Dorset The 272ft vessel does have people on board and they are said … Read more
Billionaire David Geffen sparks fury with his ‘tone-deaf’ Instagram coronavirus post assuring the public that he is safe and self-isolating in the Caribbean on his $590 million superyacht David Geffen drew backlash for the post on Instagram on Saturday morning Informed the public that he is ‘Isolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus’ Shared snaps of … Read more
Billionaire David Geffen sparks fury with his ‘tone-deaf’ Instagram coronavirus post assuring the public that he is safe and self-isolating in the Caribbean on his $590 million superyacht David Geffen drew backlash for the post on Instagram on Saturday morning Informed the public that he is ‘Isolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus’ Shared snaps of … Read more