Rich List 2017 135-250
200 £ 645 m £ 365 m ▲
VLADIMIR KIM
MiningA descendent of Koreans who were forced by Stalin to move to
Kazakhstan, Moscow-educated Kim, 56, runs the giant copper
producer Kaz Minerals. The London-based business is worth
£1.88bn after a strong second half of 2016, ramping up Kim’s
stake from £265m to about £630m. He sold £838m worth of
shares in 2010, but pledged part of his holding in 2012 as
collateral to support loans. We clip £800m off his wealth as a
result, putting Kim’s wealth at £645m. 2016: £280m, 377=201 £ 640 m £ 45 m ▲
FREDDIE LINNETT AND THE MURPHY FAMILY
PropertyOnce the tea girl at her uncles’ Leicester-based property
company, Linnett, 67, inherited her stake in Charles Street
Buildings in the 1990s. Irishmen Hugh and Paddy Murphy
established the business, which owns a portfolio of offices let to
government departments and agencies, banks and retailers. It
has a regeneration project near Leicester’s city centre,
transforming a disused railway station into a boutique hotel.
Profits increased slightly to £35.1m on turnover in 2015 when the
low-key operation also saw its net assets rise sharply to nearly
£619m in 2015. Dividends, including more than £14m in the past
year alone, and other interests take the golf-loving Linnett, a
director, and the Murphy family to £640m. 2016: £595m, 204202= £ 630 m £ 10 m ▲
THE JATANIA BROTHERS
Toiletries and propertyThe Jatanias moved to Britain from Uganda in 1969. Their
Surrey-based company Lornamead was run and co-owned by
four brothers, led by chief executive Mike, 52, with George, 66,
Vin, 61, and Danny, 58. The sale of the siblings’ Yardley brand in
2012 made them £100m before Lornamead was sold for £250m
in 2013. They also own London property worth about £220m
around Regent’s Park and Paddington. 2016: £620m, 194=202= £ 630 m £ 30 m ▲
LANCE UGGLA
FinanceFormer Canadian bond trader Uggla, 55, floated London financial
data provider Markit Group on New York’s Nasdaq in 2014 valued
at £2.8bn. In March last year he announced plans to merge with
US rival ISH to create a £9bn giant. The shares have had a good
run since the tie-up so we raise the Arsenal-supporting Uggla,
whose fashion designer daughter Riley starred in the television
reality series Made in Chelsea, to £630m. 2016: £600m, 197=204 £ 625 m No change ■
MICHAEL TABOR
GamblingEast Ender Tabor, 75, owns BetVictor, the Gibraltar-based online
gaming operation set up by Victor Chandler (qv). Tabor, who lives
in Monaco, has a £25m house in Barbados, owns a third of the
island’s Sandy Lane hotel and has a £12.2m stake in the British
pub group Mitchells & Butlers. Sales of a New York skyscraper
and a UK fitness company netted him about £360m and he has a
holding in the first foal sired by Frankel. 2016: £625m, 193205 £ 621 m £ 239 m▼
AYMAN ASFARI AND FAMILY
Oil services“Money allows me to make a difference to someone’s life and that
is a joy — the ultimate joy,” said Syrian-born Asfari, 58, who led
the £742m float of London-based oil services group Petrofac in
2005 and retains a 18.2% stake. With the oil industry becalmed,
his holding is worth £521m and other assets boost his total. His
charitable foundation, set up with his wife, Sawsan, helps young
Britons , Syrians, Palestinians and Lebanese. 2016: £860m, 133“I am prouder of my
years as a single mother
than of any other
part of my life”
196= £ 650 m £ 50 m ▲
JOANNE ROWLING
Novels and fi lmsThere seems no end to the passion for Potter. A West
End production, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,
opened last July and proved a huge hit. The show
features a grown-up Harry and won a record nine
Olivier awards last month, including best new play.
Next month marks 20 years since the first
appearance of the world’s most famous wizard.
Gloucestershire-born Rowling has sold more than
450m copies of the seven-volume fantasy series,
which she began writing as a struggling single
mother in Edinburgh in the 1990s. Further success
has come with her forays into adult fiction, including
detective novels published under the pseudonym
Robert Galbraith. In March the author confirmed
the title of her next work, Lethal White, after a fan
guessed it on Twitter. A conservative valuation of
her £6.1bn book sales suggests she has earned
£900m from her craft over the years.
The Harry Potter films are thought to have added at
least another £200m, with the new spin-off, Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them, starring Eddie
Redmayne , released last year. The author’s earnings
from the Harry Potter Warner Bros studio tour in
Hertfordshire have been estimated at as much as
£80m. These numbers have led some to suggest she
has become a billionaire but caution is in order, partly
because of her considerable generosity to worthy
causes. These include her Volant Charitable Trust,
named after her mother’s family, which funds Scottish
organisations and projects aimed at helping women,
children and young people. We put Rowling, 51, a
mother of three, at £650m, well short of wilder claims
elsewhere. 2016: £600m, 197=“Money
allows me
to make a
diff erence to
someone’s
life and that
is a joy — the
ultimate
joy”
AYMAN ASFARIWHO SOLD ALL THE PIES?
SIR DAVID SAMWORTH
AND FAMILY
Entry 215, £575mWorking their magic:
JK Rowling with Eddie
Redmayne, star of the Potter
spin-off Fantastic Beasts
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