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BILLIONAIRE SUCCESS STORY: Karl and Theo Albrecht - ALDI
2008-02-14 16:09:00
Billionaires Blog: By PycoonKarl AlbrechtBorn: 1920 - Essen, GermanyAge: 88Country Of Citizenship: GermanyResidence: Mülheim an der Ruhr , Germany, Europe & RussiaNet worth: US$20 billionFortune: Self madeSource: ALDIIndustry: RetailingMarital Status: Married, 2 childrenTheo AlbrechtBorn: March 28, 1922Age: 86Country Of Citizenship: GermanyResidence: Foehr , Germany, Europe & RussiaNet worth: $17.5 billionFortune: Self madeSource: ALDI, Trader Joe'sIndustry: RetailingMarital Status: Married, 2 children--------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- -----------------------These days selling a product successfully to a customer involves a lot of gimmick in the appearance of product promotions. Advertisements of various hues are the order of the day. And one comes across the ever-present ‘buy one, free one� lures at every area and corner of the city. But there is a chain of supermarkets in Germany, the rest of Europe and the United States that do...
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About Billionaires Blog
2008-02-13 19:05:00
Billonaires Blog : By PycoonLearn how to be a billionaire from Billionaires . Billionaires Blog is a blog with Billionaires success story, most updated news about Billionaires, Billionaires tips, Billionaires gossip and exclusive pictures of world's richest Billionaires.Contact: Please email to apaikunn@gmail.com

Billionaire Oprah Winfrey use her powerful influence in Barack Obama's camp
2008-02-10 09:23:00
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A Billionaire's Advice on Success
2008-02-10 08:35:00
Billionaires Blog: By Brightcove Netscape Founder Jim Clark talks about self awareness and success. Success Television takes a look at his childhood and personal difficulties. He's profiled by Donald Van De Mark.DVD of Jim Clark & Stephen Covey
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Billionaire's yacht cruising Hawaii
2008-02-10 07:45:00
Billionaires Blog: By Robbie DingemanPhoto via SplashvisionThis Octopus measures 414 feet, sails around the world with a 60-person crew and boasts two helipads and a submarine.The megayacht was turning heads in Honolulu Harbor this week after arriving Monday.The ship, owned by Microsoft co-founder and billionaire entrepreneur Paul Allen, draws more than a second glance tied up among the fishing boats, tugs and working-class vessels. Read Related posts------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------- --------------------BILLIONARE SUCCESS STORY: Paul Allen - Microsoft
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Blagojevich fundraiser got loan from billionaire tied to Rezko
2008-02-10 07:31:00
Billionaires Blog: By Mike Robinson Photo via dailyilliniGov. Rod Blagojevich 's chief fundraiser had arranged to get a loan from the same Iraqi billionaire whose $3.5 million payment got another member of the governor's inner circle thrown in jail.Read
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Hannah Montana To Be A Billionaire By Age Of 18
2008-02-10 07:10:00
Billionaires Blog: By HollyscoopPhoto via CBS NewsMove over Olsen Twins. You want to know just how powerful Miley Cyrus is?The numbers are in her favor. Based on the numbers released from this past weekend, financial analysts project Miley to be a billionaire by the time she's a legal adult.Read
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An Apartment Buying Spree for a Billionaire Investor
2008-02-10 06:54:00
Billionaires Blog: By DealBookPhoto via Ezer MizionFor the average New Yorker, moving in from the outer boroughs to more centrally-located digs in Manhattan is an “arrival� of sorts. For billionaire investor Ira Rennert, it’s a drop in the bucket.Mr. Rennert, a native of Brooklyn who made his fortune in metals junk bonds and subsequently bought and sold the company that invented the Humvee, just purchased two Park Avenue apartments — one for each of his daughters, The New York Observer’s Max Abelson reported.Read
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Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein faces another sex sued
2008-02-09 06:14:00
Billionaires Blog: By PycoonPhoto: Patrick McMullan, Smoking Gun55-year-old Jeffrey Epstein, an investor billionaire has been sued again, having just been sued January 24.A woman filed suit Wednesday accusing a New York billionaire of sexually assaulting her when she was underage.The latest suit involves a 19-year-old woman who was 16 at the time, and says Epstein paid her $200 to disrobe and massage him. He removed his towel at some point and moved onto his back and began to touch her sexually and masturbated.Both cases involve claims that Epstein lured underage girls to give him massages back at his mansion, which ended up becoming sexual. Each case seeks over $50m.Another teenage girl made similar claims against Epstein in a lawsuit filed last month. She is also at the center of a criminal case against Epstein in West Palm Beach, where he is charged with one felony count of solicitation of prostitution. He faces up to five years in prison if convicted. A hearing in that case is s...
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40% of world’s 10 wealthiest CEOs, are Indians
2008-02-06 21:10:00
Billionaires Blog: By PycoonLaksmi Mittal: Photo by Albert WatsonAccording to Forbes magazine, steel tycoon Laksmi Mittal along with Mukesh and Anil Ambani are among the 10 wealthiest CEOs in the world.four Out of the world’s 10 wealthiest CEOs positions are Indians , Laksmi Mittal is ranked at the second place followed by Mukesh Ambani (6th place), Anil Ambani (7th) and Wipro chief Azim Premji (9th).The CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warrent Buffet is the wealtiest CEo with a fortune of $52 billion. Arcelor Mittal chief Lakshmi Mittal has a net worth of $32 billion, followed by Mukesh Ambani with $20.1billion and Anil Ambani have fortunes worth and $18.2 billion. Chief of IT bellweather Wipro Azim Premji has a net worth of $17.1 billion.However, these net worth figures are not current and have been taken from 2007 billionaires list for Indian businessmen and from a September 2007 list for those from the US.Forbes said that the list of wealthiest CEOs was prepared after perusing the ra...

BILLIONARE SUCCESS STORY: Paul Allen - Microsoft
2008-01-22 18:04:00
Born: January 21, 1953 - Seattle, WashingtonAge: 55Country Of Citizenship: United StatesResidence: Mercer Island, Washington , United States, North AmericaOccupation: Chairman Vulcan Inc.,Charter Communications and Microsoft Net worth: $18.0 billion USD (2007)Fortune: Self madeSource: Microsoft, investmentsIndustry: SoftwareMarital Status: singleEducation: Washington State University, Drop OutWebsite: Paul Allen.com---------------------------- ----------------------------------------- ----------------------------Paul Gardner Allen was born in January 21st, 1953 in Seattle, Washington. He is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates. Allen regularly appears on lists of the richest people in the world; as of 2007 Forbes ranks him the fifth richest American, worth an estimated $18.0 billion.He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. (his private asset management company) and chairman of Charter Communications. Allen also has a multibillion dollar investment portf...
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The Billionaire Mind
2008-01-21 17:22:00
Billionaires Blog: By Michael SharkeyToday more than any time in the history of the world it is possible to become a millionaire or even a billionaire if you learn the right skills, systems, and build a highly qualified team. In order to have the highest chance of reaching financial abundance need to develop the following.1. Clarity - Eighty percent of success comes from being clear on who you are, what you believe in and what you want.2. Competence - You can't climb to the next level on the ladder until you are excellent at what you do now.3. Constraints - Eighty percent of all obstacles to success come from within. Find out what is constraining in you or your company and deal with it.4. Concentration - The ability to focus on one thing single-mindedly and see it through until it’s done takes more character than anything else.5. Creativity - Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle, if you don't use it you'll lose it.6. Coura...
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Utah billionaire James Sorenson Dies of Cancer
2008-01-21 16:21:00
Utah billionaire James LeVoy Sorenson, who overcame a childhood learning disability and built a fortune in pioneering medical equipment such as the computerized heart monitor and disposable surgical mask, died of cancer on Sunday. He was 86.Mr. Sorenson was Utah's wealthiest man, the largest private landowner in the state as well as the richest Mormon, with a fortune estimated at $4.5 billion, according to Forbes magazine's 2007 rankings. He founded several companies, including Sorenson Research, which was acquired by Abbott Laboratories (ABT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in 1980. He known both for his wealth -- and for choosing not to flaunt it.Look in any modern operating room or intensive care unit, and you'll see enduring evidence of Jim's creative solutions to tough medical problems. Mr. Sorenson was considered one of the most generous philanthropists in the state, giving millions of dollars to medical facilities, religious organizations and other causes. Jim Sorenson was de...
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BILLIONAIRE SUCCESS STORY: Amancio Ortega - Zara
2008-01-21 14:40:00
Copyright © Mark LittleBorn: March 28, 1936 - Busdongo de Arbas, León, WalesAge: 72Country Of Citizenship: SpainResidence: La Coruna , Spain, Europe & RussiaOccupation: Chairman of the Inditex GroupNet Worth: $24.0 billionFortune: Self madeSource: Zara Industry: ApparelMarital Status: Married, 3 childrenSpouse: Rosalía MeraEducation: High School, Drop OutAddress: Industria de Diseño Textil, Edificio Inditex, Avenida de la Diputación, 15142 Arteixo, La Coruña, SpainWebsite: inditex.com.----------------------------- ----------------------------------------- ---------------------------Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936, Wales) is a founder and chairman of the Spanish company Industria de Diseño Textil (Inditex), the parent company of a number of chain stores including the internationally successful clothing retailer Zara.Ranks among world's 20 richest for first time. Ranked by Forbes as Spain's richest man and the 8th richest man in the World in 2007.Ortega came from h...
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BILLIONAIRE SUCCESS STORY: Bernard Arnault - Louis Vuitton
2008-01-20 16:47:00
Born: March 5, 1949Age: 59Country Of Citizenship: FranceResidence: Paris , France, Europe & RussiaOccupation: Chairman, LVMH;Chairman, Christian Dior SANet worth: $26 billion US dollarFortune: Inherited and growingSource: LVMHIndustry: DiversifiedMarital Status: Married, 5 childrenEducation: Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, Bachelor of Arts / ScienceWebsite: LVMH.com--------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- -----------Bernard Arnault was born in 5th March 1949. He is the 7th richest person in the world and France's richest person with an estimated net worth of $26 billion US dollars, according to a Forbes report in March 2007.Arnault is best known for turning LVMH, already a luxury-goods giant when he won control in 1989, into a global empire through acquisitions, savvy marketing, and bold design.Bernard Arnault is a native of Roubaix, and graduated with an engineering degree from the École Polytechnique in 1971. In 2007, Arnault was listed among T...
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The Billionaire Writer's Secret
2008-01-17 15:26:00
Billionaires Blog: By Steven BarnesDuring a career spanning twenty-five years of novel, film, and television work, I've two major tools most valuable: the yogic “chakras� for characterization, and Joseph Campbell’s model of the Hero’s Journey for plot structure.These are not random choices, nor were they selected because of the many intelligent and thoughtful essays on their relationship to successful film or world myth. Rather, they are important because they create a connection between the inner world of the writer, and the external world of the finished work—and the reader.A plot structure is nothing more than a tool for organizing events in temporal sequence. While there are more such structures than there are professional writers, few of them meet what thousands of students consider a critical test: are they actually easy to use and apply? A simple tool, however limited, can be of greater use than a complicated tool that requires years to master. Remember: you will a...
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How To Be A Billionaire
2008-01-17 14:53:00
From Billion aire s Blog By Bright Johnson Many people will never be super rich because they don?t know what it takes to gather and sustain massive wealth. The rules of making money are the same--whether online or offline, in American or Asia, it is the same game. Here are five tips:One, you will never get rich working for a corporation or government. Your salary cannot afford a Bugatti Veyron which cost $1 million, or a $20 million mansion, or a Yatch that cost $280 million. You dare not buy a plane. The level of luxury of the super rich is way high. Unless you are one of those overpaid CEOs, you have to quit your job and start building a conglomerate of moneymaking ventures.Two, If you start a business, you need to pioneer an industry or product to make it big. Gates, Ellison, Dell, the founders of amazon.com (Bezos), ebay (Omidyar), yahoo (Young and Filo), google (Page and Brin) and other tech billionaires became rich because they were among the first to start and build computers, ...

Texas billionaire flies fifth-graders to Spiece
2008-01-15 13:50:00
If you see a chartered jet at Fort Wayne International Airport with an NBA logo on the side, don?t get too excited about the Dallas Mavericks or San Antonio Spurs being in town to scrimmage against the Mad Ants.No, these players are a little younger ? in fifth grade, actually.The jet will contain members of the Texas Titans traveling team, who are in town to compete in the Martin Luther King Classic on Saturday and Sunday at Spiece Fieldhouse.The Titans boys basketball team is backed by Texas billionaire Kenny Troutt and often gets a lift to tournaments on a jet that NBA teams use. The team was featured in a recent Sports Illustrated article. The team has flown on the Arizona Diamondbacks? plane, stayed at Caesars Palace for a tournament in Las Vegas and practiced at the Mavericks? practice facility.The Titans organization employs full-time coaches, skill instructors, a general manager, a traveling secretary and a trainer, all thanks to Troutt.?I believe if you do something, you try...
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U S Elections: Big Winners Emerging with January 19 Primaries: Billionaire
2008-01-15 13:28:00
By Philip FernandoDemocratic Party front runners are emerging in the US primary election process. It will either be a woman or a black candidate, Hillary Clinton or Barrack Obama, while the Republicans are still having McCain, Huckabee, Romney, Giuliani and Thompson vying for top honors, according to most polls. Primaries in Nevada and Michigan (19 January ) and South Carolina (19 Jan for Republicans, 26 January for Democrats) could reduce the field of candidates to just one or two per party. Meanwhile, New York Mayor, a Republican billionaire Bloomberg entering the fray is being talked of. He will be a logical rallying point if Republicans are divided.Bloomberg has enough money to wage an independent candidacy. Bloomberg is intriguingly a ?fresh prospect? to many. His message seems to be ?Don?t stray too far from the consensus positions, because I can do it all by myself and upset all your electoral calculations.However, if front runner emerge on February 5th Super Tuesday, the winn...
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Billionaire George Soros Funded Iraq Study
2008-01-15 13:07:00
By Brendan MontagueLondon TimesA study that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros. Soros, 77, provided almost half the nearly $100,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal. Its claim was 10 times higher than consensus estimates of the number of war dead.The study, published in 2006, was hailed by antiwar campaigners as evidence of the scale of the disaster caused by the invasion, but Downing Street and President George Bush challenged its methodology.New research published by The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 151,000 people - less than a quarter of The Lancet estimate - have died since the invasion in 2003.?The authors should have disclosed the [Soros] donation and for many people that would have been a disqualifying factor in terms of publishing the research,? said Michael Spagat, economics professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.T...
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Tiger Woods to be the world's first sportsman billionaire!
2008-01-15 09:42:00
TIGER Woods is set to become the world's first billion-dollar sportsman in 2010, Splash news reported on Thursday, citing Golf Digest magazine.The record-setting golfer took home a staggering US$122.7 million in 2007, an increase of US$26million from 2006, according to the reports.Woods enjoyed a boom year on the golf course in 2007, winning his 13th Major title, as well as a $10million bonus for coming out on top of the FedEx Cup competition. Woods' bank account was also bolstered by lucrative advertising deals.The magazine estimates that since turning pro in 1996, Woods has US$769.4million in total earnings. In 1996, only nine golfers earned more than US$1million a year. But in 2007, 158 players, including 99 on the PGA Tour, topped that figure.
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Anil Ambani - Reliance Capital
2007-12-30 13:07:00
Anil Ambani was born in June 4, 1959 is an Indian businessman. As of October 6th 2007, he has a net-worth of US$45 billion, making him the 6th richest person in the world. His was the world's fastest-growing multi-billion-dollar fortune in percentage terms as his wealth tripled in 1 year.Ambani is chairman of Reliance Capital , Reliance Communications and Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Energy, and was formerly Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited. His personal stake in Reliance Communications is 66%. Reliance group is India's largest business house, founded by Anil's late father Dhirubhai Ambani (1938-2002). His mother is Kokilaben Ambani. He is married to Tina Ambani(Munim) who was a well known Indian Actress in early 80's, and with whom he has two sons: Jai Anmol and Jai Anshul. The total investors' wealth in the four Anil Ambani Group firms -- Reliance Communications (RCOM), Reliance Capital (RCL), Reliance Energy (REL) and Reliance N...
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2007-12-29 18:16:00
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Roman Abramovich - Millhouse Capital
2007-12-22 20:04:00
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (born 24 October 1966 in Saratov, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian billionaire and the main owner of private investment company Millhouse Capital , referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs. According to the 2007 Forbes magazine, as of 3 August 2007, he had a net worth of $18.7 billion, and according to Russian Finance magazine, as of January 2007, his fortune was $21.0 billion. He was considered to be the richest person currently living within the United Kingdom in 2003.In Russia, Abramovich is prominent as the governor of Chukotka, a post to which he was elected in 2000. He is most famous outside Russia as the owner of Chelsea Football Club, an English Premiership football team, and for his wider involvement in European football. Despite his high profile around the world, Abramovich makes virtually no public statements about his activities. Born into a Jewish family , Roman's paternal grandparents were exiled to Siberia from Taurag?, Lithuania by the...
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American billionaire Fisher buys 3.24% stake in Celtic
2007-12-21 14:38:00
By PAUL DRURYAN AMERICAN billionaire has bought a slice of Celtic Football Club. John J Fisher , the son of the tycoon who founded the Gap clothing chain, snapped up 3.24 per cent of the Parkhead club.At yesterday's share price, Mr Fisher would have paid just under £630,000 for his stake. The sale will immediately spark fears that Celtic could go the way of Premiership giants Manchester United and Liverpool, who are now in American hands.Until now, ownership of Celtic has rested with the Irish billionaire Dermot Desmond.Despite enjoying massive windfalls in his other business interests ? he made a £700 million profit on the sale of London City Airport ? Desmond has not sanctioned a big spending spree at Celtic.Incomer Fisher is ranked the 258th richest person in the world, with an estimated fortune of $2 billion. Educated at Princeton University, 46-year-old Fisher is the son of Donald Fisher, who started the Gap clothing chain in San Francisco in 1969. He is a major fundraiser for ...
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QPR welcomes the billionaire effect as Mittal strikes a deal
2007-12-21 14:18:00
By Danny Fortson, Business CorrespondentPublished: 21 December 2007Money may not buy happiness, but it can buy a championship-winning football team, a truism lavishly proven by Roman Abram-ovich at Chelsea.The board of Queen's Park Rangers was yesterday hoping that the arrival of a new billionaire owner in the form of Lakshmi Mittal , head of the world's largest steel company and the richest man in the UK, would herald a similar change of fortunes for the long-suffering club.The West London club revealed yesterday that the steel baron paid an undisclosed sum for a 20 per cent stake, becoming the latest fabulously wealthy businessman to add an English football club to his trophy case. QPR, currently bottom of the Championship, welcomed the arrival of Mr Mittal, who has an estimated net worth of £20bn. "This investment ...is a great step towards the development of the club and supports the ambition of the shareholders to reach the Premier League in the near future."Mr Mittal joins th...
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Mukesh Ambani - Reliance Industries
2007-12-19 21:17:00
Born : April 19, 1957 (1957-04-19) (age 50)Aden, YemenResidence : Mumbai, IndiaOccupation : Chairman, Managing Director of Reliance Industries Salary : 304.6 millionNet worth : US$49 billionSpouse : Nita Ambani Mukesh Ambani (born April 19, 1957 in Yemen ) is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries , India's largest private sector enterprise and a Fortune 500 company. His personal stake in Reliance Industries is 48%. His wealth is valued at US$49 billion (according to Forbes India's 40 Richest list,14-11-07), making him the second richest person in India behind steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal. On 29th October 2007, as a result of a strong share price rally in his group companies, Ambani was thought to have become the richest man in the world with a net worth of $63.2 billion, as reported by news media in India. However, this claim was refuted by Reliance Industries, which said that the calculations regarding his weal...

Hutchison Whampoa billionaire Li Ka-shing invests $60m in Facebook
2007-12-19 20:15:00
Hong Kong Billion aire Sir Li Ka-shing, the man behind Hutchison Whampoa and therefore Orange and 3 UK, has reportedly invested $60m of his fortune into taking a piece of Facebook .The deal, reported by Kara Swisher on All Things Digital, is small change to a man who is reported to have a fortune of $23bn - placing in the Top 10 richest men in the world list.Ka-shing joins Microsoft which took a 1.6% stake in Mark Zuckerberg's baby for $240m last month.Despite his massive array of business interests Ka-shing is not making the investment in Facebook through any of the companies he controls - says All Things Digital - but through another investment vehicle.The deal, which gives him the right to plough in another $60m, will not give him a seat on the Facebook board; something Microsoft was similarly denied.If there is one virtue that Ka-shing appears to have in spades it is patience in his investments making big bucks.He has invested billions into 3 in the UK - including 4.38bn in the a...

Rise of billionaires: Threat to growth?
2007-11-30 15:42:00
India has now unseated Japan as the country with the largest number of billionaires in Asia. The latest list of 40 richest Indian citizens, annually published by Forbes magazine, had to exclude 14 billionaires who fell below the $1.6 billion cutoff point. As recently as 2001, the number of billionaires in India had been in the single digit.Admittedly, a significant part of the wealth of the billionaires in India has resulted from the unprecedented boom in the stock market in the last two years. For example, according to Forbes, Mukesh Ambani saw his net worth jump up by $30.5 billion to $49 billion within the last year and Anil Ambani by $30.2 billion to $45 billion. An eventual correction in the stock market is likely to wipe out substantial chunks of these increases in the wealth. This qualification notwithstanding, the real wealth at the top has risen sufficiently to cause a significant increase in wealth inequality recently.This is in contrast to the consumption inequality, whic...
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U.S. author fights back against Saudi billionaire
2007-11-30 15:37:00
The Moving Picture Institute has set up an entire website and short movie, devoted to the legal woes of terrorism expert and author Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and the libel action commenced against her in the UK, by Saudi billionaire Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz .Apparently Erhenfeld?s book wasn?t even published in Britain or available for sale in bookstores there. Yet, English libel laws allow such actions to be commenced there.The Sheikh is well-known to challenge anyone who suggests, no matter how slightly, that he may be involved with terrorism, in British courts ? making him one of Britain?s largest so-called libel tourists. Among other things, he also compiles all the apologies and retractions from his many libel suits on his website.Last week, Ehrenfeld challenged the ability of a British court to have authority over an American author in the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals and is currently waiting their decision.
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