Robert Maxwell à l'étage éditorial du journal européen. Mai 1990 Ian Robert Maxwell, MC (10 juin 1923 – 5 novembre 1991) était un média britannique né en Tchécoslovaquie et député. Il s'est levé de la pauvreté pour construire un empire d'édition étendu. Sa mort a révélé d'énormes écarts dans les finances de sa société, y compris la caisse de retraite du groupe Mirror, que Maxwell avait frauduleusement détournée. Vu ici à l'étage éditorial du journal européen 1990 il s'est échappé de l'occupation nazie, se joignant à l'armée tchécoslovaque en exil pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, puis se battant
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Date de la prise de vue:
1 mai 1990
Lieu:
London
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Robert Maxwell on the editorial floor of the European Newspaper. May 1990 Ian Robert Maxwell, MC (10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (MP). He rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. His death revealed huge discrepancies in his companies' finances, including the Mirror Group pension fund, which Maxwell had fraudulently misappropriated. seen here on the editorial floor of the european Newspaper 1990 He escaped from Nazi occupation, joining the Czechoslovak Army in exile in World War II and then fighting in the British Army where he was decorated. After the war he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major publishing house. After six years as an MP during the 1960s, he again put all his energy into business, successively buying the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers and Macmillan, Inc, among other publishing companies. He had a flamboyant lifestyle, living in Headington Hill Hall in Oxford from which he often flew in his helicopter, and sailing in his luxury yacht, the Lady Ghislaine. He was notably litigious and often embroiled in controversy, including about his support for Israel at the time of its War of Independence in 1948. In 1989, he had to sell successful businesses including Pergamon Press to cover some of his enormous debts, and in 1991 he was found dead, floating in the Atlantic Ocean having apparently fallen overboard from his yacht. He was given what amounted to a state funeral in Israel. His death triggered the collapse of his publishing empire as banks called in loans. His sons briefly struggled to keep the business together, but failed as the news emerged that Maxwell had stolen hundreds of millions of pounds from his own companies' pension funds. The Maxwell companies applied for bankruptcy protection in 1992.
