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Sir James Michael Goldsmith (26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997) was a French-British [1] financier, tycoon [2] and politician who was a member of the Goldsmith family. His controversial business and finance career led to ongoing clashes with British media, frequently involving litigation or the threat of litigation.
Jul 20, 1997 · Sir James Goldsmith, a flamboyant British-French financier who maintained three families, homes in four countries and used his billions to fight the European Union, died Friday in Spain, a ...
Born in February 1933 into a Jewish family in Paris, James Michael Goldsmith was the son of luxury hotel owner and former MP Major Frank Goldsmith and his Catholic French wife Marcelle Moullier, and younger brother of environmental campaigner Edward Goldsmith (Teddy).
Nov 23, 1987 · Their son Manes is 28 now, working in Mexico City for the Mexican national football team, and Jimmy Goldsmith, officially Sir James Goldsmith, is not exactly penniless anymore.
Jan 1, 1992 · Billionaire: The Life and Times of Sir James Goldsmith. Hardcover – January 1, 1992. The saga of one of the world's wealthiest men describes his lifestyle at his estate along the Mexican coast and tells how his shrewd business sense saved his investments from the crash of 1987.
- Ivan Fallon
Sir James Goldsmith: Financier, Politician, Thinker and Environmentalist. From humble beginnings as a small entrepreneur, Sir James became a formidable businessman and investor, undertaking some of the largest and most successful takeover bids of the 1980s.
Sir James Goldsmith’s career began in the 1950s as a very young entrepreneur running a tiny pharmaceutical firm. He went on to become the third largest food seller in the world by the end of the 1970s.
Goldsmith founded the Referendum party in 1995 for the explicit purpose of demanding a comprehensive referendum on Britain’s role in Europe. His campaign was one aimed purely at shaking up British politics as it stood and uniting a public force against the Tories.
James Michael Goldsmith (born 1933), British-French industrialist and financier, achieved international renown as a corporate raider after a successful career in manufacturing and distributing consumer products.
Jul 18, 1997 · Sir James Michael Goldsmith was a French-British financier, tycoon and politician who was a member of the Goldsmith family.
