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Robert Maxwell was born Ján/Ludvík (variants recorded) Hoch in 1923 in then‑Czechoslovakia and legally changed his name to Ian Robert Maxwell after naturalisation; his birth name was repeatedly invoke...
Available reporting says Ghislaine Maxwell became closely associated with Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s and that some accounts claim her father, British media magnate Robert Maxwell, helped introduce h...
Robert Maxwell built a vast international publishing and newspaper group—Pergamon Press, Mirror Group, Macmillan and others—by aggressive acquisitions and leveraging information businesses, but his em...
Robert Maxwell’s empire was heavily indebted and, after his death on 5 November 1991, investigators revealed he had diverted hundreds of millions of pounds from employee pension funds and shuffled ass...
Robert Maxwell was a Czech‑born British publisher who built a global media and publishing empire from the 1950s to the 1980s, then died at sea in 1991 amid revelations that his companies were heavily ...
Robert Maxwell held , including a reported majority stake in the newspaper Ma'ariv and large shareholdings in Israeli companies such as Teva and Scitex, and he funded ventures aimed at Soviet Jewish i...
Robert Maxwell was a Czechoslovak‑born British publisher, media proprietor and former Member of Parliament who built a large international publishing empire (Pergamon, Mirror Group, Macmillan) and die...
Robert Maxwell’s death in November 1991 triggered the near-instant collapse of his publishing empire, exposed a deliberate and massive theft from company pension funds, and thrust his family into lega...
The 1991 UK inquiries concluded that Robert Maxwell orchestrated large‑scale financial misconduct that left his media group deeply indebted and , with investigators and later DTI reviewers assigning p...
Robert Maxwell’s death in November 1991 was a rupture that pushed Ghislaine from the private orbit of a powerful father into public grief, financial crisis, and a long shadow of controversy; she immed...
The largest identifiable losses after Robert Maxwell’s fraud were concentrated in the Mirror Group pensions — particularly the Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) scheme — with sources reporting well over £...
The revelation that Robert Maxwell had siphoned hundreds of millions from his companies’ pension funds plunged thousands of employees into financial insecurity and forced his surviving children into a...
The available reporting paints Robert Maxwell as a figure who cultivated real relationships with intelligence services and political leaders, and who actively took control of Mirror Group’s editorial ...
Robert Maxwell built a sprawling, international publishing and media empire that by the late 1980s and early 1990s encompassed newspapers, trade and academic publishers, directories, language schools,...
Robert Maxwell built a sprawling, diversified publishing empire whose core holdings—most consistently documented in the sources provided—include Pergamon Press, the Mirror Group newspapers (notably th...
Robert Maxwell’s media empire in the 1980s and into the early 1990s comprised a mix of newspaper groups, academic and trade publishers, language‑instruction chains, directories and related information...
Robert Maxwell, the Czech‑born British media magnate, was found dead in November 1991 near his yacht off the Canary Islands; the official inquest ruled death by heart attack with accidental drowning, ...
Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991 exposed that his companies had more than $4 billion in debts and that he had looted the Mirror Group pension fund, leaving pensioners and banks to absorb large losses . ...
The Maxwell pension fraud — involving hundreds of millions of pounds siphoned from Mirror Group pension schemes — exposed major weaknesses in trustee oversight, custodial recording and regulatory enfo...
The official inquest verdict in December 1991 recorded Robert Maxwell’s death as a heart attack combined with accidental drowning (see inquest ruling) . Reporting across major outlets notes that three...