“He was very angry about allegations contained in the Seymour Hersh book,”
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Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell was a Czechoslovak-born British-French media proprietor and politician.
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business · British media proprietor (1923–1991) · politician · entrepreneur · writer · publisher · screenwriter · media proprietor · spy · also Robert Maxwell, Ian Robert Maxwell, Abraham Leib Hoch, Ján Ludvík Hoch, Ivan du Maurier, Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch
Born 10 June 1923 · Died 5 November 1991 · Q333468
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2026· 8 entries
“His last conversation that I can find was with his son Ian, who spoke to him at 11 o”
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“s body was found by a fishing boat floating 19 to 20 miles from Gando on the other side of the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria - more than 100 miles from the obvious route between the points of departure and arrival. Asked to explain how the body could have got there, Mr Delgado replied:”
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“His absence was noted when the boat arrived at los Cristianos at 9am,”
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“But there was much more to him than that. Even if he treated you badly, you still recognised that. He could also be very funny, albeit unintentionally.”
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“Pergamon Press made a fair and bona fide offer in October which has been frustrated and defeated after three months of (cynical) manoeuvring.”
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“free to produce the news without interference”
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Public attention spiked: 8,336 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 2,135, with 5 article edits. Editors noted: script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM
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2025· 1 entry
Reported claimRated This isn’t true. The photograph is actually of Mr Johnson and his first wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen, while they were at university together in 1986. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “A picture shows Boris Johnson with Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of Robert Maxwell.” This isn’t true. The photograph is actually of Mr Johnson and his first wife, Allegra Mostyn-Owen, while they were at university together in 1986..
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2024· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell are family members.” False.
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2023· 2 entries
USA Today rated the claim “Ghislaine Maxwell’s father owns McGraw Hill textbooks” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Publisher Robert Maxwell, who owned Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Co. in a joint venture from 1989 until his death in 1991, put false information in American textbooks.” Not An Editor.
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2021· 1 entry
For trafficking young girls to the financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
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2020· 2 entries
FactCheck.org rated the claim “Bill Gates' "mother is a Maxwell, related to the Israeli Mossad agents Robert Maxwell and his daughter Ghislaine, who used child trafficking to blackmail world leaders with Jeffrey Epstein."” False.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim ““Dr Fauci is married to Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister.”” False.
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1995· 1 entry
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
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1994· 1 entry
In November 1994, Maxwell's widow Elisabeth published her memoirs, A Mind of My Own: My Life with Robert Maxwell, which sheds light on her life with him, when the publishing magnate was ranked as one of the richest people in the world.
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1991· 3 entries
Died 1991-11-05.
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His body was discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Canary Islands, having apparently fallen overboard from his yacht
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Maxwell was forced to sell Pergamon and Maxwell Directories to Elsevier for £440 million to cover his debts; he used some of this money to buy an ailing tabloid, the New York Daily News
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1989· 1 entry
Had to sell successful businesses, including Pergamon Press, to cover some of his debts
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Commander First Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1988).
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1987· 1 entry
Maxwell purchased part of IPC Media to create Fleetway Publications
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1986· 1 entry
Maxwell informed the Israeli Embassy in London that Mordechai Vanunu revealed information about Israel's nuclear capability to The Sunday Times, then to the Daily Mirror
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1985· 1 entry
And the team won the League Cup a year later
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1984· 1 entry
But refused owner Martin Edwards's asking price
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1983· 1 entry
To form a club he wished to call "Thames Valley Royals"
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1981· 2 entries
Elisabeth devoted much of her later life to continued research on the Holocaust and worked as a proponent of Jewish-Christian dialogue
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And changed its name first to the British Printing and Communication Corporation (BPCC) and then to the Maxwell Communication Corporation (MCC)
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1970· 1 entry
To Conservative challenger William Benyon
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1969· 1 entry
Saul Steinberg, head of "Leasco Data Processing Corporation", was interested in a strategic acquisition of Pergamon Press
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1968· 2 entries
Career landmark: substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1968–1969).
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In which he said the House of Commons provided him with a problem
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1966· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 44th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1966–1970).
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1964· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 43rd Parliament of the United Kingdom (1964–1966).
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1961· 1 entry
At age 15, when his driver fell asleep at the wheel and crashed headlong into another vehicle
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1951· 1 entry
Bought three-quarters of Butterworth-Springer, a minor publisher; the remaining quarter was held by the experienced scientific editor Paul Rosbaud
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1948· 1 entry
As crucial to the Czechoslovak decision to arm Israel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
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1945· 1 entry
Maxwell married Elisabeth "Betty" Meynard, a French Protestant, and the couple had nine children over the next sixteen years: Michael, Philip, Ann, Christine, Isabel, Karine, Ian, Kevin, and Ghislaine
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1938· 1 entry
At age 15, when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, Maxwell's parents had him quit his job as a salesman and sent him to Budapest
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-06-10.
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