He was litigious and often embroiled in controversy. Maxwell led a flamboyant life, living in Headington Hill Hall in Oxford, from which he often flew in his helicopter, or sailing in his luxury yacht, the Lady Ghislaine. After six years as a Labour MP during the 1960s, Maxwell again put all his energy into business, successively buying the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers and Macmillan Publishers, among other publishing companies. In subsequent years he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major publishing house. Įarly in his life, Maxwell, then an Orthodox Jew, escaped from Nazi occupation, joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile during World War II and was decorated after active service in the British Army. After his death, huge discrepancies in his companies' finances were revealed, including his fraudulent misappropriation of the Mirror Group pension fund. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Maxwell rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. Ian Robert Maxwell MC (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a British media proprietor, former Member of Parliament (MP), suspected spy, and fraudster.
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