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Sir James Michael Goldsmith (26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997) was a French-British financier, tycoon and politician who was a member of the Goldsmith family. His controversial business and finance career led to ongoing clashes with British media, frequently involving litigation or the threat of litigation.
Sir James Goldsmith: Financier, Politician, Thinker and Environmentalist. From humble beginnings as a small entrepreneur, Sir James became a formidable businessman and investor, undertaking some of the largest and most successful takeover bids of the 1980s.
Born in February 1933 into a Jewish family in Paris, James Michael Goldsmith was the son of luxury hotel owner and former MP Major Frank Goldsmith and his Catholic French wife Marcelle Moullier, and younger brother of environmental campaigner Edward Goldsmith (Teddy). Sir James lived his early years in France, but attended boarding school in ...
Jul 20, 1997 · Sir James Goldsmith, a flamboyant British-French financier who maintained three families, homes in four countries and used his billions to fight the European Union, died Friday in Spain, a ...
Sir James Goldsmith’s career began in the 1950s as a very young entrepreneur running a tiny pharmaceutical firm. He went on to become the third largest food seller in the world by the end of the 1970s.
Jul 24, 1997 · Jimmy Goldsmith. Sir James Goldsmith, tycoon, politician and cad, died on July 19th aged 64. Jul 24th 1997 |. CHAMPAGNE before dinner in the Hollywood Hills in the early 1990s. Two sleek,...
Jul 20, 1997 · James Michael Goldsmith, businessman, publisher and politician: born Paris 26 February 1933; Kt 1976; Member for France, European Parliament 1994-97; married 1st Isabel Patino (died 1954;...
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James Michael Goldsmith. James Michael Goldsmith (born 1933), British-French industrialist and financier, achieved international renown as a corporate raider after a successful career in manufacturing and distributing consumer products.
Sir James Goldsmith, who has died of a heart attack, was a flamboyant billionaire financier. He retired from commerce and founded a political party to protect the United Kingdom from the...
Jul 18, 1997 · Sir James Michael Goldsmith was a French-British financier, tycoon and politician who was a member of the Goldsmith family.
