The Sunday Times Magazine – 7 May 2017

307= £ 390 m £ 15 m ▲

MARK BURNETT AND ROMA DOWNEY

Television

Essex-born Burnett can stake a claim to the US

president’s rise to power , having devised the

reality TV show The Apprentice where Donald

Trump magnified his fame. A Democrat donor in

elections gone by, during the presidential race

he said it was not within his power to release old

tapes of the show likely to embarrass Trump.

Burnett, 56, is a former paratrooper and

Falklands War veteran who arrived in Hollywood

more than 30 years ago with just $200 and

found work there as a nanny. He became

king of American reality TV, dreaming up

Survivor, Shark Tank and The Voice, while his

Londonderry-born actress wife, Downey, 57

yesterday, played Jackie Onassis in a mini series

and was behind a 10-part show called The Bible.

The MGM studio paid $343m in September

2014 for a 55% stake in the couple’s television

company and a few months later the pair

exchanged their remaining holding for more

than 1.3m MGM shares, now worth about

£100m. In December 2015 Burnett signed a

five-year contract as president of MGM

Television. Downey was named chief content

officer of the faith and family division. Past sale

proceeds and the MGM deal take the Malibu-

based couple to £390m. 2016: £375m, 298=

Rich List 2017 251-500

US reality: Burnett with

Donald and Melania Trump

during Apprentice days

318= £ 370 m £ 30 m ▲

DAVID GABBAY AND FAMILY

Property 2016: £340m, 319=

318= £ 370 m £ 80 m▼

ROBERT, BARRY AND TIMOTHY GUEST

Building supplies

London-based John Guest makes pipe and tube fittings for

plumbing, heating and cars. It was sold to a private equity group

for £420m last year after a strong 2015 , with profits of £23.7m.

The founder’s twins Robert and Barry, 65, and son Timothy, 57,

netted £330m and have other assets. 2016: £450m, 255=

318= £ 370 m £ 5 m ▲

THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND

Land and art

The 12th Duke, 60, inherited Alnwick Castle in 1995 along with an

extensive art collection and 120,000 acres in the northeast. The

castle was Hogwarts in the first two Harry Potter films and

visitors can tour the set. His wife, Jane, 58 , has overseen £8.8m

of work on Alnwick Garden, now a popular tourist attraction. The

family also owns Syon Park in Isleworth, west London. Assets of

£49m in 2015-16 include forestry. 2016: £365m, 307=

318= £ 370 m £ 30 m ▲
ELI SHAHMOON AND FAMILY
GETTY Property 2016: £340m, 319=

322= £ 368 m £ 3 m ▲

BILL IVES AND FAMILY

Steel and property

Essex -based Rainham Steel, which has a turnover of more than

£100m, is chaired by former boxer Ives, 73. It made £2.3m profit

in 2015-16, and adding his salary to the bottom line pushes that

figure to nearly £7.3m, but we clip its value to £150m. Ives, a Tory

party donor, has extensive property interests and has also

invested in the boxing channel BoxNation. 2016: £365m, 307=

322= £ 368 m £ 71 m ▲

ENDRE ROSJO

Finance 2016: £297m, 362

324 £ 366 m £ 28 m ▲

JULIAN DUNKERTON

Fashion See panel, page 90

325= £ 365 m £ 45 m ▲

JAN MOL

Computers and investment

Mol, 76 next Thursday , sold his Volmac computer software

operation to a French multinational in the 1990s, later selling a

telecommunications group for £68m. The London-based Dutch

entrepreneur now finances ventures run by his son Michiel , 47,

who has a holding in the Force India F1 team and co-founded

XCOR Space Expeditions in California. 2016: £320m, 339=

DUCHESS OF

NORTHUMBERLAND

Entry 318=, £370m

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