James Mellon

James Ross "Jay" Mellon II (born June 25, 1942 in New York City , USA ) is an American author and big game hunter . In connection with offshore leaks , he became internationally known to a broad public as a tax avoidant in April 2013 .

Life

After attending college in the USA , John Mellon devoted himself almost exclusively to big game hunting between 1964 and 1976. He lived in Nairobi ( Kenya ) for five years , but also spent some time in New Delhi ( India ). From here he went hunting all over India, Pakistan , Nepal , Indonesia , Thailand , Afghanistan , and Cambodia . Some of these trips were made on behalf of and at the expense of large museums. At the age of 30, Mellon was the youngest ever winner to receive the "Roy E. Weatherby Big Game Trophy" for his numerous hunting successes. An exclusive big game hunting award that is considered the "Oscar of the Hunters' World".

James Mellon's name first became known to a broad international public in April 2013 when it was mentioned in the offshore leaks published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and associated with the establishment of discreet companies in offshore financial centers . In an interview with the Swiss Sunday newspaper in May 2013, James Mellon stated that he had given up his American citizenship in 1977 for tax reasons and instead accepted that of the British Virgin Islands . He also settled there for some time until the local fiscal climate developed to his dissatisfaction.

Since he has logged off there again, he claims to have led - now as a British citizen - a lifestyle that is referred to in English as the " perpetual traveler ". Accordingly, Mellon does not have a main residence in any state , but commutes back and forth between different residences in other countries. As a result of this permanent travel, he does not stay anywhere long enough to become taxable there. Mellon has residences in Switzerland ( Klosters , Canton of Graubünden ), Italy ( Rome ) and the USA ( Fifth Avenue , New York City ).

Due to his extensive travels, James Mellon explained in an interview with ICIJ in April 2013, it had proven useful in the past to have his finances managed by third parties through offshore companies. In addition, tax advantages and the limitation of liability risks also played a role. James Mellon emphasized that he followed the advice of his lawyers and never violated the tax laws of the states in which he was staying. Even if he did not want to provide any information about how he was managing his assets at the time of the interview with ICIJ, he still stated that he no longer owned any offshore companies.

family

James Mellon is the son of Matthew Taylor Mellon (1897-1992) and Jane Bartrum. He is married to Vivian Ruesch, daughter of the Swiss racing driver , publicist and writer Hans Ruesch (1913–2007). Together they have three grown daughters: Diana, Angela and Sarah.

A member of the Mellon family , one of the wealthiest families in the United States , James Mellon inherited a great fortune. He is a great-great-grandson of Thomas Mellon , the founder of the "T. Mellon & Son's Bank ”(now part of the Bank of New York Mellon ), and a great-nephew of Andrew W. Mellon , United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Harding , Coolidge, and Hoover from March 4, 1921 to February 12, 1932. Being Grandfather William Larimer Mellon (1868-1949) was the founder of the Gulf Oil Company , which was taken over in 1985 by the Chevron Corporation . James Mellon's nephew, Matthew Taylor Mellon II , was married to Tamara Mellon , the president and co-founder of the Jimmy Choo shoe company .

Fonts

• African Hunter. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York 1975, ISBN 0-15-103954-2 .
• The Face of Lincoln. Viking Press, New York 1979, ISBN 0-670-30433-6 .
• (Ed.): Bullwhip days: the slaves remember, an oral history. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988, ISBN 0-8021-3868-3 .
• The great uprooting: ancestries of the Mellon, Rüesch, and Delafield families. : a series of genealogical charts. 2008.
• The judge. A life of Thomas Mellon, founder of a fortune. Yale University Press, New Haven 2011, ISBN 978-0-300-16714-6 .

translation

• Per Federspiel : a fighter for Danish and European freedom. ISBN 87-02-04125-1 (from the Danish, original title "Federspiel. En dansk europæer" by Ditlev Tamm)

Awards

• 2007: Carnegie Medal from the Carnegie Hero Trust Fund

Honorary positions

• President of the "Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Discussion forum on NitroExpress.com
2. ^ Gerard Ryle: Secret Files Expose Offshore's Global Impact. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), accessed July 8, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Tax evasion: Oil baron saves all taxes by constantly traveling , Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 28, 2013.
4. ↑ Florian Imbach: The man without a home. Sunday newspaper , accessed on May 5, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Nancy Hass: Jimmy Choo's Tamara Mellon; The woman behind the shoes shares all. Elle , accessed July 1, 2014 . 
6. ^ Gerard Ryle: Secret Files Expose Offshore's Global Impact. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), accessed July 8, 2014 . 
7. ^ Gary Boyd Roberts: # 49 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Further Changes in Royal Descents, 2000. (No longer available online.) American Ancestors - New England Historic Genealogical Society, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved June 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Bill Cunningham: EVENING HOURS; May at last. The New York Times , accessed June 24, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Nancy Hass: Jimmy Choo's Tamara Mellon; The woman behind the shoes shares all. Elle , accessed July 1, 2014 . 
10. ^ Dan Fitzpatrick : Mellon family member: Patriarch would have lamented bank deal Pittsburgh Post Gazette , October 18, 2007.
11. ^ The Mellon Center for Migration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh - Fourteenth Annual Report 2011–2012