But his long career was also marred by affairs, including one (alleged) with gangster Ronnie Kray, another (unrevealed over 30 years) with Harold Macmillan's wife.
The lawsuit alleges: "With an inflated share value, senior execs were then able to offload shares, selling more than $13.2m of stock at fraud-inflated prices".
Emo culture's "negative ideology" may encourage depression, social withdrawal and even suicide, the bill alleges – with young girls being particularly vulnerable.
Not sure what the difference is, they all have species names, we could look them up!" Turning to another grouping, he alleges with more certainty, "Oh, and these guys are basically snails".
Meanwhile, Jan Moir's deeply offensive piece about the death of Stephen Gately, which alleged – with no evidence – that there was "nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death" – provoked an even greater response on Twitter.
He also describes in callous detail how he and his "death squad" - acting, he alleges, with the knowledge and backing of the French government, including François Mitterrand, then justice minister - tortured and killed dozens more Algerian prisoners.
That's when the shareholders got involved, upset that HP had not seen the problems they alleged with the deal and unhappy about the size of the write-down.
The rest was misused or wasted, the FTC alleges, with the fundraisers in turn often taking 85percentt or more from each donation, the complaint says.
Grigoris Vallianatos and Nikolaos Mylonas, two Greek gay men, alleged with three other couples that the law infringed their right to respect for their private and family life, a clause in the European Convention on Human Rights, and amounted to unjustified discrimination.
"Plaintiffs, by contrast, have failed to demonstrate the harms that they allege with specificity in regard to the FS Pipeline in particular, relying instead on general harms they have identified by analogizing this project to other pipelines," she wrote.
