Board Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

Having worked for him at Pergamon, I never believed he’d take his own life. if he did die then, I think he’d have been bumped off. Still think he lived his days out somewhere.
I also worked at Pergamon from 1960 to 1968. I agree with you entirely - I just cannot believe he took his own life. Far more in it than we will ever know.
 
Robert, at his peak, controlled the western tabloid media in its entirety. That doesn’t happen by accident. It also served as a propaganda arm for the Israeli government.
Hang on... we're talking Maxwell not Murdoch. Cap'n Bob owned the Mirror (so DM, SM and People and the Scottish versions) between 1984 and his death about 7 years later. He played a role in The European when it launched in 1988, had a short lived rival to Evening Standard in mid-80s and also invested in the New York Daily News, but that wasn't until 1991, a few months before his death. So that's one major British daily, a pan European weekly and a few months in the US.... bit of a stretch to say that he controlled the Western tabloid media in its entirety....
 
Talking of Maxwell...


What a good bloke!! ;)

Not long after he took over, I left the Manor after a match one Saturday to find my car vandalised by visiting fans (might have been MiIlwall?). Windscreen smashed, wing mirror torn off. I wrote to Maxwell to complain how the average fan was suffering. He sent a cheque by return, with the condition that I never told anyone. (Whoops, I am now doing so). I later realised he was probably paying me out of the pensions fund.
 
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