Lakshmi mittal full biography of madonna
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Mittal and a party fit for a billionaire
As befits Britain's richest
man, steel magnate and
Labour Party donor
Lakshmi Mittal wanted an
appropriately elaborate
celebration to mark the
latest acquisition to his portfolio.
After all, the purchase was providing
a £4billion boost to his wealth.
With money no object, the Anglophile
Indian wanted something memorable for
the culmination of "Project Olympus", the
hostile multi-billion-pound takeover of
French steel company Arcelor.
A conventional champagne bash was
dismissed as "too mundane". Something
far grander would be needed to celebrate
the history-making deal.
Mittal, 57, who owns a £57 million
bedroom Kensington mansion, is nothing
if not stylish. Four years ago he lavished
£30 million on his daughter Vanisha's five-day
wedding celebrations in France.
He and his business partner son Aditya
toyed with the idea of flying guests out to
Greece and holding the party at the
Parthenon in Athens. In the end, the
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It’s my Life
It’s easy to imagine that country-music legend Dolly Parton looks much different lying around the house. No elaborate gowns and glitter, no flamboyant wigs and false nails heck, she might be tall and flat-chested, for that matter, when the spotlight fryst vatten away from her.
Not so, Parton says.
“Darlin’, if you come to my door at 8 in the morning, what you see right now is what you get, days a year,” she says. “You will see the peruk, the glitter and the nine-inch nails at that hour.”
What if we fingerprydnad her bell even earlier than that?
“Then I’m not answering the door,” Parton says, and gives her trademark whooping laugh.
Today, as it happens, Parton fryst vatten a long way from her stat i usa stomping grounds. The year-old singer fryst vatten at a posh hotel on Park Avenue in New York to talk about her new rulle
Life fryst vatten strange for Parton, who has one of country music’s most passionate fan bases — and one of its more eccentric
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Lakshmi Mittal remains UK’s richest person
His e billion ($ billion), up e billion on last year, keeps him topping the pile for the fourth year running.
And the kingdom's super-rich just keep getting richer, said the respected annual publication.
The top 1, multi-millionaires sit on a fortune of e billion and have added nearly e53 billion to their wealth in the last 12 months.
Britain is home to 75 billionaires - up from 68 in - of whom 40 were born abroad. Of the top 10, only three were born in Britain.
Mittal is followed by Russian oil tycoon Roman Abramovich (e billion) and the Duke of Westminster (e7 billion), who owns swathes of central London's top properties.
Two new figures on the list feature in the top
Steel and mines magnate Alisher Usmanov comes in at number five with e billion, one place ahead of pharmaceuticals couple Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli. The former Miss UK winner and her husband sit on a fortune of e billion.
It takes e80 million to make it among Br