St. Petersburg. In 1964, Maxwell became a Labour MP, holding the title until 1970. Its tempting to regard this as an extreme example of his lack of consideration for others. He also owned a half-share of MTV in Europe and other European television interests, Maxwell Cable TV and Maxwell Entertainment. [60] Murder was ruled out by the judge and, in effect, so was suicide. A Spanish fisherman found his body floating in the Atlantic 12 hours later. Im going away for a few days to get rid of this cold. Worse yet, he skimmed the money from the pension funds of his Daily Mirror employees. Three decades after the world was rocked by his death, it is clear how the signs were there: how his doomed obsession with his glamorous personal assistant, along with his colossal debts and his increasing isolation from his family as he regressed into disturbingly childlike behaviour, would ultimately lead to the destruction of the man later to be dubbed the crook of the century. [36] Originally intended to be a rival of the Evening Standard, Maxwell eventually decided to make it the first 24-hour paper as well. Inside The Mysterious 1991 Death Of Robert Maxwell. "[17] Maxwell lost his seat in 1970 to Conservative challenger William Benyon. Those closest to him claim he would never have taken his own life. But it was too big to fit in, and so a large nylon harness normally used to rescue cattle and horses from flood zones was lowered instead. Maxwell got into football. "I can't get on with men", he commented. [32][33] Haines quickly came under Maxwell's influence and later wrote his authorised biography. It just seemed too far-fetched to be true. It happened again a third time. They finally put a heart attack on [70], In November 1994, Maxwell's widow Elisabeth published her memoirs, A Mind of My Own: My Life with Robert Maxwell,[71] which sheds light on her life with him, when the publishing magnate was ranked as one of the richest people in the world. From conquering Nazis to taking over the academic and scientific publishing world, it would seem there was nothing that Maxwell couldn't do. 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Im just here for the ride, he said. Nine years after it was commissioned, the Department of Trade and Industry report will finally provide an official chronicle of the complex inner workings of Maxwells multimedia companies. Given the 1991 revelations of Maxwell's secretive and scandalous life, where he robbed unwitting employees of their hard-earned pensions, the public began to question his mysterious death, and with good reason to do so (viaMirror). There was no reply. In subsequent years he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major academic publisher. The family patriarch, media mogul Robert Maxwell, built a publishing empire and political career in the United Kingdom. He had a sore throat. Maxwell, whose real name was Jn Ludvk Hoch, narrowly escaped the Holocaust by fleeing to France. In 1991, Maxwell was forced to sell Pergamon and Maxwell Directories to Elsevier for 440 million to cover his debts;[29] he used some of this money to buy an ailing tabloid, the New York City Daily News. In New York, he launched an American edition of his latest newspaper, The European, with a party for 600. But the bed was empty. Discovery CEO David Zaslav says CNN is 'making real progress' by adding GOP guests in its effort to lure back viewers, Prosecutors seek the death penalty for FedEx contract driver charged with kidnapping and murdering seven-year-old Athena Strand inside his truck while delivering her Christmas gift, You can now KISS the bride! Mirrorpix-Getty Images Robert Maxwell, however, attracted the greatest intrigue in On the outside, the British party-goer seemed to have it all fame, fortune, and notoriety, to name a few. Photo: Sean here at a press conference today, Oct. 29, 1980 at Londons Ritz Hotel are (right) Mr. Rtoichi Sasakawa, Pres. Had he killed himself? A sea of rumors swirls around her following the death of a very powerful, very corrupt man who clearly had a heavy influence over her life. In 1991, his body was discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean, having [14], After the war, Maxwell used contacts in the Allied occupation authorities to go into business, becoming the British and US distributor for Springer Verlag, a publisher of scientific books. ON This Day In Photos: Publisher Robert Maxwell dies at sea. [18] The Carr family, which owned the title, was incensed at the thought of a Czechoslovak immigrant with socialist politics gaining ownership, and the board voted against Maxwell's bid without any dissent. In his final months, Maxwell spent most of his time alone in his London apartment. Robert Maxwell pictured with his son Ian (left), who was taunted mercilessly by his siblings, and youngest son Kevin (right), who became Britain's biggest ever bankrupt when a 407million bankruptcy order was made against him. Pitt-Atkins nodded. Watson was appalled. Robert Maxwell and Ghislaine Maxwell pictured with the Milk Cup in Britain in 1992. Maxwell missed the meeting, instead travelling to his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, in the Canary Islands, Spain. It did not say how it obtained the videotape. At a press conference to publicize his acquisition, Maxwell said his editors would be "free to produce the news without interference". Hell leave nothing to them, he said. Mr Sasakawas company is currently engaged in raising treasure, thought to be worth many billions of dollars, from the Societ battle cruiser Admiral Nakhimov sunk off the Japanese island of Tsushima 75 years ago, and it is planned to donate all the treasure recovered entirely to help world peace and to prevent war on a global scale. In his final months, Maxwell spent most of his time alone in his London apartment. But unknown to Maxwell, Andrea and Nick Davies had begun a relationship. And he was. Pedro Pascal is known for the recent hit television series "The Mandalorian" and "The Last of Us." Shortly after his body was found, Maxwell's ultimate deception was unveiled. Still, others hold out for the murkiest conspiracy of all, which is one where the crooked businessman was murdered. Pictured are the Earl and Countess of Clancarty, shareholders, who gave Maxwell a vote of confidence. Photo: Pop star Elton John, left, who sold his controlling interest in Watford FC to Robert Maxwell for 2 million, joins the publishing tycoon in the stands at Oxford. And, just as Pitt-Atkins had foreseen, Maxwells family and thousands of his employees worldwide were left facing financial ruin. Eventually I came across him sitting on his own in a room. The Maxwell companies applied for bankruptcy protection in 1992. And for one of her birthdays he presented her with a shiny new black BMW. By now Andrea was accompanying Maxwell everywhere. [62][63] Herzog delivered the eulogy, and the Kaddish was recited by his fellow Holocaust survivor, friend and longtime attorney Samuel Pisar. tombstone photo and death date. At some point it sank in that he was not on the boat, Rankin recalled. She was the gatekeeper., Robert Maxwell in front of his yacht The Lady Ghislaine, the ship from which he is thought to have committed suicide in 1991. His daughter Karine died of leukaemia at age three, while Michael was severely injured in a car crash in 1961, at the age of 15, when his driver fell asleep at the wheel and crashed headlong into another vehicle. He was a "great character", Major added. Another team had been instructed to follow Andrea. It emerged that, without adequate prior authorisation, Maxwell had used hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies' pension funds to shore up the shares of the Mirror Group to save his companies from bankruptcy. The media mogul, whose Leading City institutions are in line for criticism, along with Maxwells son Kevin and, it has been reported, Lord Donoughue, a former minister in Tony Blairs government. 'Sometimes I think I should just end it all, throw myself out of the window. [66], Maxwell's death triggered instability for his publishing empire, with banks frantically calling in their massive loans. [69], The Maxwell companies filed for bankruptcy protection in 1992. Increasingly, he would be in a foul mood, partly because hed hardly slept, Ian recalls. Most of Maxwell's family was murdered in Auschwitz after Hungary was occupied in 1944 by Nazi Germany, but years earlier he had escaped to France. He began to trade in academic books. Was it murder? This page was last edited on 11 February 2023, at 00:41. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe the, "I never saw Eric Ravilious depressed. Its still a mystery how he died: it could have been murder, suicide, or an accident. Grand Canary Island, for an autopsy. In the same month as Maxwell was flying to Berlin with Andrea, a short paragraph appeared in the Lex column of the Financial Times. I would say he was very happy, Rankin recalled. After six years as a Labour MP during the 1960s, Maxwell again put all his energy into business, successively buying the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers and Macmillan Publishers, among other publishing companies. Date: 10/11/1991. He had known links to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to the Soviet KGB, and to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad. In 1940, Robert Maxwell joined theBritish army. [19] He wrote, "This is a British paper, run by British people as British as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding Let us keep it that way". Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. Unable to sleep for more than two hours at a time, he whiled away the time by watching James Bond movies and gorging himself on Chinese takeaways his greed was legendary, and he had by now taken to eating with his hands like a toddler, as if he could not get the food down quickly enough. He wanted to be Prime Minister. The long-awaited official report into the collapse of Robert Maxwells business empire is expected to be published. Among those adherents to this theory, according to her brother Ian, is Ghislaine Maxwell herself (via Daily Mail). John Fisher, claims underwriter for the Maxwell policy, said West had not told him of anything suggesting violence was involved in the death. Kirstie Renae. Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, fraudster, and MP (19231991), For other people named Robert Maxwell, see, Maxwell at the Global Economic Panel in Amsterdam (1989). [50], A hint of Maxwell's service to Israel was provided by John Loftus and Mark Aarons, who described Maxwell's contacts with Czechoslovak communist leaders in 1948 as crucial to the Czechoslovak decision to arm Israel in the 1948 ArabIsraeli War. He acquired the British Printing Corporation (BPC) in 1981 and changed its name first to the British Printing and Communication Corporation (BPCC) and then to the Maxwell Communication Corporation (MCC). AP News reports that Conservative Party politician Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark once said of Robert Maxwell, He was the Citizen Kane of his time. He then tried to roll the body into a special basket. By a show of hands, News of the World shareholders vote in the take-over meeting at the Connaught Rooms, Bloomsbury. While the body's location and lack of dress were notably odd, authorities point out there were no visible signs of a struggle. The Europeans editor, Ian Watson, went to find him. [12] In a 1995 interview, Elisabeth talked of how they were recreating his childhood family who were killed in the Holocaust. By the autumn, MCCs total debt had risen to 2.4 billion. As far as Im aware, he saw no signs of any violence or any problem, Fisher said. Far from being in profit, the company was running at a considerable loss. But throughout July 1990 the share price continued to tumble. Robert Maxwell met his death at age 68 on November 5, 1991. [72] Having earned her degree from Oxford University in 1981, Elisabeth devoted much of her later life to continued research on the Holocaust and worked as a proponent of Jewish-Christian dialogue. Now, his sons have broken their silence. [23], Maxwell subsequently lost control of Pergamon and was expelled from the board in October 1969, along with three other directors in sympathy with him, by the majority owners of the company's shares. Pictured:Robert Maxwell on his yacht Lady Ghislaine, It was quite obvious that something was going to happen to Dad physically sooner or later. Later that morning the Lady Ghislaine set sail, first to Madeira, then to the Canaries. He seemed healthy. [68] This replenishment was limited and also supported by a surplus in the printers' fund, which was taken by the government in part payment of 100 million required to support the workers' state pensions. Just ashes.. The weekly Paris Match published several graphic pictures of Maxwells body it said showed bruises that cast doubt on a Spanish autopsys conclusion that the publisher fell overboard from his yacht and died of natural causes Nov. 5. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer, At the end of October 1959 in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street - an unexceptional and damp space that was once a sort of rest room for taxi drivers and an occasional tea bar - Ronnie Scott opened his first jazz club. Maxwell was furious. The experts said, however, that the injuries alone probably did not cause death, the magazine said. First, he checked for a pulse: nothing. For many years, the chief barber at Londons Savoy hotel, George Wheeler, had been regularly visiting Maxwells palatial apartment at the Daily Mirrors nearby HQ to dye the tycoons hair and eyebrows. WebIn 1991, British media tycoon Robert Maxwell died in mysterious circumstances off his yacht in the Canary Islands. But it added that Kevin Maxwell and some leading City financial institutions also bore a heavy responsibility for the companys failure. In 1995, Kevin, Ian and two other former directors went on trial for conspiracy to defraud, but were unanimously acquitted by a 12-person jury the following year. I sometimes feel I cant go on.. Date: 29/10/1980. While the death is deemed an accident, there are those who believe he might have killed himself rather than deal with the shame of his secret eventually being revealed. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Clark told him that the firms board wanted to convene an audit committee to investigate. No report from the autopsy in Israel has been released. His body was found off the coast of Tenerife. On Tuesday, November 5, Maxwell and Kevin were due to meet the Governor of the Bank of England in London, where they were bound to face awkward questions about their solvency. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('Unit4'); }); Photo: Field-Marshal Montgomery presents a medal to Robert Maxwell. 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WebIn 1991, Robert Maxwell's body was discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean, having apparently fallen overboard from his yacht, although the exact circumstances of his death The answer, as it turns out, might be in a different set of headlines more than three decades in the past. If you or anyone you know is having suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by dialing 988 or by calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Before he got dressed, two maids would come in and tidy up. And he might have lost more. [34] The deal was aborted in August 1985. The experts were explicit: the multiple bruises on the body of the ex-press magnate indicate he was attacked before his death.. When he learned of the affair through the bugs hed had installed in the Mirror offices, all hell broke loose. [3][4][5] His parents were Mechel Hoch and Hannah Slomowitz. Men like to have individuality. I replied, Mr Maxwell, I am your only friend. . Nor were the profits all they seemed. [28] The company performed poorly under Steinberg; Maxwell reacquired Pergamon in 1974 after borrowing funds.[29]. The only thing that struck him as odd was that Maxwell did almost no work while on board usually he spent several hours a day poring over papers. of the Japan Shipbuilding Insustry Foundation and one of the worlds richest men, and (left) Mr. Robert Maxwell, chairmand of the publishers Pergamon Press, who are publishing Mr. Sasakawas forthcoming biography on a non-profit-making oasis. Bankers and brokers have been buying up shares for the family to give them more strength to hold out against the increasing bids by Maxwell. Yet even here his devotion was starting to fray. I definitely think he had megalomania at that stage, says Maxwells daughter Christine. 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