Kate Middleton's uncle marries fraudster
Published: 2013 February 17 01:43:43 (4609 Views)
The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton's uncle Gary Goldsmith— who like his sister Mrs Middleton was raised in a Middlesex council house — tied the knot in London with 43-year-old Miss Brown last July.
The new Mrs Goldsmith is a convicted fraudster who siphoned off £250,000 from a luxury car firm, where she worked as a clerk, and blew the lot on Rolex watches and Mercedes sports cars.
Unbeknown to her bosses, she siphoned off cash that she spent on jewellery, including a £12,500 Rolex watch, a £41,000 Mercedes sports car, plus holidays in Barbados and trips to The Ritz in Paris.
When her ruse was finally rumbled, she admitted five charges of theft and asked for 52 similar offences to be taken into consideration at her trial at Chester Crown Court in 1996.
But she escaped jail and was given a suspended sentence after the judge was told she had endured a troubled and deprived childhood.
Clearly, however, her liking for the trappings of money and privilege stuck, and subsequently she has dated a string of rich and successful men, including a self-made communications millionaire called Ray Ingleby, with whom she lived in a property beside London’s Regent’s Park before he was declared bankrupt in August 2010.
She then moved on to Goldsmith, who made a fortune in 2005 by selling his recruitment firm, Computer Futures, for £275 million. As well as the Ibiza retreat, they also share his £1.7 million mews house in Marylebone.
Despite his News Of The World humiliation, he was on the guest-list at William and Kate’s wedding in April 2011, to which he turned up in a £280,000 bright blue Rolls-Royce Phantom convertible.
But, notably, rather than taking his then new lover, Miss Brown, he arrived with second wife Luan and their daughter, Tallulah, now 11, who is one of Kate’s favourite cousins.
He was divorced from wife number three, blonde accountant Julia Leake, 35, just days before the revelations of his drug-taking at Maison de Bang Bang, whose wall bears a 6ft-high mural proclaiming: ‘It’s Gary’s world, you just live in it.’
At the time, Goldsmith was living on the Mediterranean island with a former lapdancer called Antonia.
Despite, or possibly because of, the house’s notoriety, it has become popular with Premier League footballers, and Liverpool and England star Jordan Henderson rented it last summer.
According to Goldsmith, his recent fourth wedding will be his last: ‘We’re very much in love and this one’s a keeper,’ he told me this week.
Carole and the royal couple — who holidayed with entrepreneur Goldsmith at his Balearic pleasure palace in 2006, publicly cut ties with him after embarrassing drug revelations.
The re-emergence of Carole’s troublesome sibling onto the public radar, with his plans for a tell-all book, is something Mrs Middleton, 58, could well do without.
She and Kate’s father, Michael, who run a lucrative party merchandise firm, have recently moved even further up in the world by splashing out £4.7 million to become lord and lady of a grand manor house in the rolling West Berkshire countryside.
- Daily Mail
The new Mrs Goldsmith is a convicted fraudster who siphoned off £250,000 from a luxury car firm, where she worked as a clerk, and blew the lot on Rolex watches and Mercedes sports cars.
Unbeknown to her bosses, she siphoned off cash that she spent on jewellery, including a £12,500 Rolex watch, a £41,000 Mercedes sports car, plus holidays in Barbados and trips to The Ritz in Paris.
When her ruse was finally rumbled, she admitted five charges of theft and asked for 52 similar offences to be taken into consideration at her trial at Chester Crown Court in 1996.
But she escaped jail and was given a suspended sentence after the judge was told she had endured a troubled and deprived childhood.
Clearly, however, her liking for the trappings of money and privilege stuck, and subsequently she has dated a string of rich and successful men, including a self-made communications millionaire called Ray Ingleby, with whom she lived in a property beside London’s Regent’s Park before he was declared bankrupt in August 2010.
She then moved on to Goldsmith, who made a fortune in 2005 by selling his recruitment firm, Computer Futures, for £275 million. As well as the Ibiza retreat, they also share his £1.7 million mews house in Marylebone.
Despite his News Of The World humiliation, he was on the guest-list at William and Kate’s wedding in April 2011, to which he turned up in a £280,000 bright blue Rolls-Royce Phantom convertible.
But, notably, rather than taking his then new lover, Miss Brown, he arrived with second wife Luan and their daughter, Tallulah, now 11, who is one of Kate’s favourite cousins.
He was divorced from wife number three, blonde accountant Julia Leake, 35, just days before the revelations of his drug-taking at Maison de Bang Bang, whose wall bears a 6ft-high mural proclaiming: ‘It’s Gary’s world, you just live in it.’
At the time, Goldsmith was living on the Mediterranean island with a former lapdancer called Antonia.
Despite, or possibly because of, the house’s notoriety, it has become popular with Premier League footballers, and Liverpool and England star Jordan Henderson rented it last summer.
According to Goldsmith, his recent fourth wedding will be his last: ‘We’re very much in love and this one’s a keeper,’ he told me this week.
Carole and the royal couple — who holidayed with entrepreneur Goldsmith at his Balearic pleasure palace in 2006, publicly cut ties with him after embarrassing drug revelations.
The re-emergence of Carole’s troublesome sibling onto the public radar, with his plans for a tell-all book, is something Mrs Middleton, 58, could well do without.
She and Kate’s father, Michael, who run a lucrative party merchandise firm, have recently moved even further up in the world by splashing out £4.7 million to become lord and lady of a grand manor house in the rolling West Berkshire countryside.
- Daily Mail
0
You May Like These Videos
WATCH: Victims Narrate Ordeal After Being Clobbered By Riot Cops
FLASHBACK: Morgan Tsvangirai Won't Resign Despite Illness 
Police Violently Beat Harare Protesters 
Zimbabwean Man Who Was Shot By Tswana Employer Appeals For HelpComments
There are no comments.
Get Zim Metro Updates Alerts
Big Reads
Schoolgirl drops out after continuous 'sexual abuse' by teacher
by Staff Reporter | 2019 August 13 07:42:33
Mugabe Knows Nothing About The Zimbabwe Constitution: MP
by Staff Reporter | 2016 October 01 08:12:02
Zim's Protesting Graduates Risk Losing Degrees For Expressing Anger Against Mugabe
by Staff Reporter | 2016 October 01 07:57:08
Troubled Harare Giants Dynamos Falls Into Another Deep Crisis
by Own Correspondent | 2016 October 01 07:49:17
Grace Mugabe Grovels At Mnangagwa, Says I Did Not Ask Ubaba To Fire You
by Staff Reporter | 2016 October 01 07:31:48
Mugabe Attacks Mawarire, Claims The Exiled Pastor Failed To Divide Zimbabwe
by Staff Reporter | 2016 October 01 07:19:13
Shock As Local Bank Denies 'Rich' Mugabe's Son Heifty Credit
by Own Correspondent | 2016 September 30 19:14:54Trouble For Police Officers Who Have Been Mercilessly Bludgeoning Protesters
by Staff Reporter | 2016 October 01 07:20:19
Mugabe "Home Coming" And "Thank You" Rally On Cards
by Own Correspondent | 2016 September 23 06:48:24
Prof Moyo Was Dumped By Western Embassies, Claims Mutsvangwa
by Staff Reporter | 2016 September 22 10:08:07Broke RBZ Tracks Down Zimbabweans Living Outside The Country Over Taxi
by Staff Reporter | 2016 September 22 09:16:20
You Are Too Old To Lead, Aging Zim President Mugabe Told
by Own Correspondent | 2016 September 22 07:19:25
Anti-Corruption Commission Loses Property In Failed Probe
by Own Correspondent | 2016 September 20 03:18:19
.jpg)
SHOCKING:14 Year Old HIV-Positive Boy Rapes 7 Pupils
by Own Correspondent | 2016 September 20 00:04:55
