Wednesday, August 25, 2010
RICHARD KAY: Robert Hanson's X-rated lawsuit
As millionaire financier Robert Hanson helps to cheer up the near-bankrupt Duchess of York, while they celebrate the 75th birthday of billionaire hotelier Sir Sol Kerzner, in Sardinia, he is also preoccupied with his own difficulties.
Unbeknown to many of the revellers, who included Naomi Campbell and Ivana Trump, Old Etonian Robert, 49, son of industrialist Lord Hanson, is being sued for £358,000 by the former chief executive of a film company who claims Robert agreed to guarantee his salary.
So far, so unremarkable.
But what makes this particular writ embarrassing to Robert and his loftily beautiful new wife, Ivy League-educated Masha Markova - at 25, almost half his age - is that the man issuing the legal action against him is the ex-boss of a pornographic film company.
The company in question, based in Spain, is Woodman Entertainment, founded by fashion photographer- turned-pornographer Pierre Woodman, the creator of more than 60 X-rated films, who claims to have bedded more than 3,500 women.
Hanson, who once dated model Sophie Anderton, herself exposed as an escort girl by a tabloid newspaper, tells me: 'I am talking to my lawyers and I am not allowed to say anything.
'But I take this seriously, I can assure you.'
In the writ, it is claimed that Hanson guaranteed the salary of David Newnham, who joined the company as chief executive in August 2008, on a two-year contract on £147,000 a year.
But Newnham left two months later, claiming he had not been paid. Newnham is now claiming the money, plus interest and court fees from Hanson. says a friend: 'This writ is somewhat absurd. there are two sides to every story.'
But it is all a far cry from when Robert joined Rothschilds in the eighties, later joining the eponymous company of his tycoon father, who was Baroness thatcher's favourite industrialist.
Source From Great Site: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Unbeknown to many of the revellers, who included Naomi Campbell and Ivana Trump, Old Etonian Robert, 49, son of industrialist Lord Hanson, is being sued for £358,000 by the former chief executive of a film company who claims Robert agreed to guarantee his salary.
So far, so unremarkable.
But what makes this particular writ embarrassing to Robert and his loftily beautiful new wife, Ivy League-educated Masha Markova - at 25, almost half his age - is that the man issuing the legal action against him is the ex-boss of a pornographic film company.
The company in question, based in Spain, is Woodman Entertainment, founded by fashion photographer- turned-pornographer Pierre Woodman, the creator of more than 60 X-rated films, who claims to have bedded more than 3,500 women.
Hanson, who once dated model Sophie Anderton, herself exposed as an escort girl by a tabloid newspaper, tells me: 'I am talking to my lawyers and I am not allowed to say anything.
'But I take this seriously, I can assure you.'
In the writ, it is claimed that Hanson guaranteed the salary of David Newnham, who joined the company as chief executive in August 2008, on a two-year contract on £147,000 a year.
But Newnham left two months later, claiming he had not been paid. Newnham is now claiming the money, plus interest and court fees from Hanson. says a friend: 'This writ is somewhat absurd. there are two sides to every story.'
But it is all a far cry from when Robert joined Rothschilds in the eighties, later joining the eponymous company of his tycoon father, who was Baroness thatcher's favourite industrialist.
Source From Great Site: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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