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In response to
"“ Joe Lewis, the British billionaire and owner of Tottenham Hotspur, has been charged in New York…”"
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The Allfather
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quite a bio
Posted by
Reagen
Jul 25 '23, 16:41
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Lewis, who was born in an east London pub, left school at 15, joined the family catering business and went on to build up his own restaurant business. He left the UK for the Bahamas in 1979.
The tax exile built his reputation as a currency speculator when he, like George Soros, bet against the pound in the build-up to Black Wednesday in 1992. However, he suffered a $1bn hit when Wall Street bank Bear Stearns, in which he was an investor, collapsed into a rescue by JPMorgan in 2008.
The currency trader’s profile grew when he took control of Tottenham, buying shares from British businessman Alan Sugar.
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