Taki Theodoracopulos

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Taki Theodoracopulos, 1991

Taki Theodoracopulos (Greek Τάκης Θεοδωρακόπουλος; born August 15, 1937 ) is a Greek journalist who lives in London .

Life

Theodoracopulos was born in Greece to John Theodoracopulos. He inherited a fortune from his father and has houses in Gstaad and the Upper East Side , Manhattan . As an athlete, he was a member of the Greek Davis Cup team and captain of the Greek national karate team .

He has been married to Princess Alexandra Schönburg-Hartenstein for the second time since 1981 .

1984 Theodoracopulos was in London for possession of cocaine valued at 1,800 US dollars arrested. In his memoirs , he described the subsequent three-month stay in Pentonville Prison as an interruption to a “life full of privileges”.

Working as a journalist

Theodoracopulos has worked for The Spectator , National Review , the London Sunday Times and Vanity Fair , among others . Since 1977 he has been writing the column High Life for the Spectator . In 2002 he became known for founding The American Conservative magazine with Pat Buchanan . He is also the primary author of the Uniquely Free .

Controversy

On January 11, 2003, The Spectator published an article in which Theodoracopulos addressed the shooting of two black girls in Birmingham and then wrote, “Only an idiot would not suspect that what politically correct newspapers call 'dissatisfied young people' are black Thugs, sons of black thugs and grandchildren of black thugs are [...] West Indians were allowed to immigrate after the war, breed like flies, and then the great state apparatus took care of their multiplications. "He lent his admiration for the " rivers of Blood ”speech by Enoch Powell , describing it as both“ prophetic ”and“ true ”. Following a complaint, the police opened an investigation to determine whether Theodoracopulos' statements in the column on racial hatred were in breach of the Public Order Act of 1986 , which has a maximum sentence of two years in prison. The investigation was closed.

Theodoracopulos had previously attracted attention through other racist statements in his column in the Spectator . He described Puerto Ricans as a "bunch of half-savages ... fat, stocky, ugly, dark-colored, dirty" and described Kenya as "bongo-bongo country". He called himself a "so-called anti-Semite " and wrote about the alleged Jewish world conspiracy . Conrad Black , owner of the Spectator , condemned the column as "lies worthy of a Goebbels".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Sholto Byrnes: A racist rant too far? Police investigate Taki the playboy pundit . In: The Independent , February 1, 2003.
  2. ↑ a b Matt Wells: Where gossip turns to bile. In: The Guardian , February 28, 2003.
  3. ↑ Taki Theodoracopulos: Nothing to Declare: A Memoir . Atlantic Monthly Press, New York 1991, ISBN 978-0-87113-434-9 , pp. 164 f.
  4. ^ Nothing to Declare: A Memoir . On: Publishersweekly.com . Retrieved September 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ http://ef-magazin.de/autor/taki-theodoracopulos/
  6. ↑ Taki Theodoracopulos: Thoughts on Thuggery . In: The Spectator , Jan 11, 2003, p. 46.
  7. ↑ Selective spectator . In: The Guardian , October 21, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Theodoracopulos, Taki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Θεοδωρακόπουλος, Τάκης
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1937