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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.
Jul 19, 1997 · Sir James Goldsmith the flamboyant billionaire businessman, died early yesterday leaving behind three families, seven homes, eight children and a failed political crusade.
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 ...
Jan 2, 2008 · Sir James Goldsmith is a protean figure: high-flying financial buccaneer, crusading politician, famously unconventional family man, who shares homes in London, Paris, Burgundy,...
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;...
