The real-estate magnate, as the Times delicately noted at the time, had "no particular background in foreign policy".
But now we learn that Hugh took about $400,000 to get presidential pardons for a politically connected drug dealer and a mail-order magnate who served time for mail fraud and perjury.
In the year 144, the church declared Marcion of Sinope, a rich shipping magnate and part-time theologian, a heretic for declaring the God of the Hebrew scriptures to be inferior to the God of the New Testament.
The film's central figure is former beauty queen Jackie Siegel, the wife of time share magnate David A Siegel; the Siegels are, rather improbably, attempting to build the largest private home in the US.
The budding auto magnate used his spare time tinkering with gas-powered engines.
At the same time, wealthy magnate consumers in England began to use the new fairs as a way to buy goods like spices, wax, preserved fish and foreign cloth in bulk from the international merchants at the fairs, again bypassing the usual London merchants.
Not only is it a reminder of Mr. Buffett's childhood, but it also reminds people that the billionaire is also a small-time newspaper magnate.
One-time mining magnate Nathan Tinkler's Buildev Group paid $66,000, the Gazal family's development company Gazcorp paid $137,000, and the Obeid-linked Australian Water Holdings (AWH) paid $137,000 for fake services invoiced by EightByFive, the inquiry has heard.
Fridman was chief executive of TNK-BP, the troublesome joint venture between BP and Russian oil magnates which at one time accounted for nearly a quarter of the UK company's oil production.
Mr. Martin, a grandson of Henry Phipps, the partner of the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, was an eight-time national amateur singles champion and 13-time amateur doubles champion in court tennis.
Bob Guccione Jr., the owner of the now-defunct Gear magazine and son of a porn magnate, dated her for a time.
