Pointless Rich List

[xxFordiexx]

Pointless Rich List's get my goat. I just don't get it. Mark has sat with an apparent fortune of

[Jackal]

Funny you'd mention the rich list. I was just browsing it to find the name of a guy who came to mind, but whose name I have completely forgotten. There was a show long time ago where he was interviewed and where they showed how he was building and old-style enormous mansion in the UK. But this guy was the least sympathetic guy you could imagine. Bitter and brash. He also had a feud with the local authorities because people were hiking on parts of his enormous property. What was his name? Sounded kind of Dutch. Van something. Anyone knows who I'm talking about?

[Pottel]

oh yeah
 van heusen or something
i think he was building the largest private property in the UK or something. shady figure though.
also, the 65milion and the 120 million records sold have stood there for ages now, annoys the living daylights out of me. wil ask guy (not about the fortune though)

[DIFFICULTTOBELIEVE]

Van Hoogstraten or similar. I believe he's in jail.

[Jackal]

Thanks DTB! That's the guy, Nicholas Van Hoogstraten. Wow, there's a character. Definitely a bad one, but certainly interesting.

 

 

All there is on YT, but gives you a glimpse of what this guy is like.

A photo of the mansion he wanted to build:



A ten year old news story:

Tycoon's lavish palace stands idle
Nicholas van Hoogstraten's dream to build a palatial home that would last 2,000 years is standing half-finished in a corner of East Sussex.
The copper-domed temple, once described by The Observer as "a cross between Ceausescu's palace and a new civic crematorium" remains half-built, with little prospect of ever being completed.

His dream started to become a reality when the foundations for Hamilton Palace, destined to become a monument to his success, were laid in 1985.
 
No further work has been carried out since and the future of the Buckingham Palace-inspired structure, funded with a reputed

[DIFFICULTTOBELIEVE]

That's him. If you follow the A22 road S from London towards the coast , the big house is on the left near Uckfield. Will show on Google Earth I suspect.