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  • If shares have been split evenly among Mr. Ho's four families—as Mr. Ho's lawyer had insisted was the tycoon's wish—questions will emerge on who will take the lead in major decisions.

    Stanley Ho's Latest Bluff Kate O'Keeffe 2011

  • First he is expected to conclude his very lucrative star turn as brief for Roman Abramovich in the tycoon's legal battle with the oligarch Boris Berezovsky.

    Hugh Muir's Diary 2011

  • Less than a week before the IPO, the tycoon's private companies completed the acquisition of a mixed commercial and residential property development in Qingdao, China, at a cost of $900 million.

    Tycoon Sells Gold, Buys Property Isabella Steger 2012

  • In Ahmedabad, in deeply interesting and sadly rarely visited Gujarat, there is the venerable House of MG, a tycoon's rambling family home in the city centre, now restored.

    10 of the best hotels in India 2011

  • The chancellor invited Elisabeth Murdoch, the tycoon's daughter, and James Harding, the editor of the Times who was a few years above Osborne at St Paul's School, to his 40th birthday party at Dorneywood last month.

    No 10 boss attended Scotland Yard dinner with ex-NoW deputy Neil Wallis 2011

  • Trump Celebrity Promotions, Inc. New York tycoon's firm has produced few useful products other than popular television show featuring celebrity wannabees, but megalomaniac CEO is confident that despite worst hair style in history, he can run for president in 2012 without being told by voters, "You're fired."

    Al Eisele: Buy? Sell? mixed portfolio of political futures Al Eisele 2011

  • A Russian tycoon's lawyer said in a London court that the mogul paid a fellow oligarch $2 billion as part of a "corrupt" deal over a Russian oil company, a case that is lifting a veil on Russia's tumultuous transition to capitalism.

    What's News— 2011

  • It said the bank's exposure to the British retail tycoon's operations had reached €436m £344m by the time the bank fell.

    The high-street tycoon who pulled out of ruin to be back in fashion 2011

  • Trump Celebrity Promotions, Inc. New York tycoon's firm has produced few useful products other than popular television show featuring celebrity wannabees, but megalomaniac CEO is confident that despite worst hair style in history, he can run for president in 2012 without being told by voters, "You're fired."

    Al Eisele: Buy? Sell? mixed portfolio of political futures Al Eisele 2011

  • It's unfair on all the other clubs that one should be able to win the lottery, even if it pays for its luck with the indignity of becoming a tycoon's plaything.

    Would football really be worse off without its big investors? David Mitchell 2010

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