I love doing battle: The tough guy who made $750 million on June 29, 2017With his thick, working class Boston accent, David McCourt doesn’t immediately come across as a successful entrepreneur with a personal fortune of $750m (£589m).If you ever saw the 58-year-old drinking in an Irish bar in his native “Southie”, the blue collar southern part of the US city, you’d be minded not to annoy him. He […]
The ‘diva of divorce’ for the world’s super rich on June 25, 2017If you ever spy your wife or husband in discussion with Ayesha Vardag you might need to panic. A glamorous 49-year-old, Ms Vardag is one of the world’s most high profile and in-demand divorce lawyers. Nicknamed the “diva of divorce”, she specialises in helping “ultra high net worth individuals” get the best possible settlements when […]
Fighting fit: How one man built a martial arts empire on July 24, 2016If Chatri Sityodtong didn’t party that much at Harvard University he had a good excuse – he had to share his dormitory room with his mother. Born and raised in Thailand to a wealthy family, Chatri was studying at the prestigious US college in the late 1990s when the Asian financial crisis hit. Back in […]