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Ian Robert Maxwell MC (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, politician, fraudster, and the father of the convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.. After escaping the Nazi occupation of his native country, Maxwell joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile during World War II and was decorated after active service ...
Jun 28, 2022 · Media magnate Robert Maxwell's mysterious death set off a chain of events that culminated in the collapse of his newspaper empire and the bankruptcy of his children. Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers ...
Jun 6, 2024 · Robert Maxwell (born June 10, 1923, Slatina-Selo, Czechoslovakia—died November 5, 1991, at sea off the Canary Islands) was a Czechoslovak-born British publisher who built an international communications empire. His financial risks led him into grand fraud and an apparent suicide.
Apr 5, 2022 · Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch) was a British media mogul and former MP, whose fraudulent business activity only became public after his death. In his early life, Robert was ...
Nov 6, 1991 · Robert Maxwell, who died today after going overboard from his yacht off the Canary Islands, fled the collapse of Czechoslovakia in 1939 to become one of the most powerful publishers in Britain and ...
Feb 2, 2021 · For all the humiliation he heaped on others, that was not a prospect he could bear. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, by John Preston, Viking, RRP£18.99, 352 pages. Bronwen Maddox is director ...
May 23, 2018 · MAXWELL, ROBERT. MAXWELL, ROBERT (1923–1991), British publisher. Maxwell was born Jan Ludvik Hoch, son of a poor Jewish farm laborer, in Solotvino in the Carpathians, then part of Czechoslovakia. Although his family was Orthodox, he appears to have abandoned Judaism at about the time he left his native village and traveled to Budapest.
Feb 23, 2021 · LONDON — When Robert Maxwell’s four-story-high yacht sailed into New York in early March 1991, he was seemingly at the zenith of his power and influence. With an estimated wealth of $1-2 ...
Jan 31, 2021 · When Ghislaine’s father Robert Maxwell died in 1991, the official cause of death was a heart attack—but not everyone was convinced. Rumors swirled that the larger-than-life newspaper baron, ...
Feb 3, 2021 · On 5 November, 1991, newspapers around the world reported the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell, the Czechoslovakian war orphan turned British billionaire and media baron, who died suddenly while travelling the ocean on his yacht. Awarded the Military Cross in 1945 for his World War Two heroism, Maxwell was a publishing magnate by the 1950s, a ...
