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Ian Robert Maxwell MC (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, politician, fraudster, and the father of the convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.
Jun 6, 2024 · Robert Maxwell (born June 10, 1923, Slatina-Selo, Czechoslovakia—died November 5, 1991, at sea off the Canary Islands) was a Czechoslovak-born British publisher who built an international communications empire. His financial risks led him into grand fraud and an apparent suicide.
Jun 28, 2022 · Media magnate Robert Maxwell's mysterious death set off a chain of events that culminated in the collapse of his newspaper empire and the bankruptcy of his children.
Feb 2, 2021 · John Preston’s timely book revisits the extraordinary fate and fortunes of a larger-than-life media mogul. Robert Maxwell at a charity event in 1990, 18 months before his mysterious death at...
Nov 6, 1991 · Robert Maxwell, who died today after going overboard from his yacht off the Canary Islands, fled the collapse of Czechoslovakia in 1939 to become one of the most powerful publishers in Britain...
Feb 13, 2021 · There have been many biographies of Maxwell, but the story of this monstrous, enigmatic, bullying, narcissistic crook of gigantic appetites, who at his peak was one of the most recognisable ...
Apr 5, 2022 · Who was Robert Maxwell? Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch) was a British media mogul and former MP, whose fraudulent business activity only became public after his...
May 13, 2019 · In the early hours of Sept. 7, 1944, Robert Maxwell, an Army communications specialist, made a split-second decision that was virtually certain to bring his death.
Nov 8, 2021 · Robert Maxwell: 30 years since the mysterious death of an audacious tycoon. At 4.45 in the morning, Robert Maxwell called a crew member on his £10 million yacht to complain about the...
Jan 4, 2022 · A book about the rise and fall of media mogul Robert Maxwell has won best biography at the Costa Book Awards. Judges said John Preston's biography Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell, was...
