Joe Lewis (entrepreneur)
Joe Lewis (born February 5, 1937 in Bow , London ) is a British entrepreneur .
Life
Lewis left school when he was 15 and worked for his father's family business, a catering service. In the 1970s he sold the company. Lewis is the main shareholder in the investment company Tavistock Group , which also owns 85% of the shares in the English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur via the ENIC Group . He is the majority shareholder in the British company Mitchells & Butlers .
He made his fortune through financial speculation in the 1980s and 1990s, including speculation on " Black Wednesday " in 1992. Lewis is one of the richest Britons according to the US Forbes Magazine . In 2017, he received his third mega- yacht, the Aviva , which with a length of 98.4 meters is the largest yacht in Abeking & Rasmussen 's history and one of the forty longest motor yachts in the world.
According to research by the Austrian daily Der Standard , he is the owner of some of the most valuable paintings in auction history, including:
- Danaë (1909) by Egon Schiele ,
- Portrait of Gertrud Loew-Felsövanyi (1912) by Gustav Klimt ,
- Femme allongée sur un canapé (1939) by Pablo Picasso ,
- Triptych (1974-77) by Francis Bacon .
The paintings are said to be on board the Aviva. Lewis lives in Albany, Bahamas . He is married for the second time and has two children.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Forbes Magazine: Joe Lewis
- ^ Yacht Aviva - Joe Lewis - Tavistock. (accessed on August 21, 2017)
- ↑ Olga Kronsteiner: From the auction room to a billionaire's yacht , Der Standard (Vienna), July 13, 2015
- ↑ Henri Neuendorf: Buyer of $ 39 Million Klimt Painting Revealed as British Billionaire Joe Lewis , artist-news, July 14, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lewis, Joe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1937 |