Amanda Staveley is one of the most powerful businesswomen in the world, having orchestrated the £305
Public Group active 3 years, 1 month agoAmanda Staveley is one of the most powerful businesswomen in the world, having orchestrated the £305 million Newcastle United takeover – but the glamorous financier’s dealings may come at a sharp price. The 48-year-old willowy blonde, from Yorkshire, who is worth £100 million and once turned down a proposal from , is at the centre of a political storm this week after she helped a Saudi-Arabian backed consortium PIF buy the club from Mike Ashley. Critics have called it football’s darkest day, allowing the murderous state to ‘sportswash’ its reputation around the globe, wowgoldone.com in a deal brokered by Amanda – seen as a role model for women in business – who has used that power to cosy up to one of the world’s most oppressive regimes, especially for women. She has become a multi-millionairess in part by making adept use of her little black book of Gulf-tycoon contacts, who she courted in the racing community while running a restaurant near Newmarket in the ’90s, bringing people together to hatch deals and bagging a large fee in the process. The Premier League has been widely criticised for the deal and is being ask to reveal the ‘legally binding assurances’ it claims to have received before accepting PIF’s assertions that it is separate to the totalitarian state and the royal family wouldn’t interfere in club goings-on, despite the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), being PIF’s chairman. However Amanda has insisted the partnership will be a force for good, telling : ‘I understand and appreciate all the messages on human rights and we treat them very seriously.
But I wouldn’t bring partners into the consortium if they didn’t have the right record and PIF is autonomous and independent of the Saudi government. PIF owns Newcastle, not the Saudi state. Glamorous financier Amanda Staveley, 48, went from growing up in a tiny Yorkshire village to orchestrating the Saudi £305 million takeover of Newcastle United’In buying Newcastle PIF are not going to hide and we’re proud of them; we need, strong, brave, partners.
I love brave, passionate, people, that’s how I do business.’ And among those criticising Amanda’s deal is Hatice Cengiz, the Turkish woman engaged to marry Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist murdered by a hit squad of 15 Saudi Arabian agents, who called it ‘so sad’, adding: ‘It is a real shame for Newcastle and English football’. RELATED ARTICLES
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In this country, Amanda lives in a huge £10 million property on swanky Park Lane in London and domestic life seems settled with Lexi and husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi, an Iranian businessman she married in a lavish event in Buckinghamshire in 2011. Amanda’s family wealth dates back to the 16th century when Henry VIII’s one-time favourite, Cardinal Wolsey, granted them a plot of land at North Stainley in North Yorkshire. When in the UK, Amanda stays in a huge £10 million property on swanky Park Lane in London and domestic life seems settled with Lexi and husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi, an Iranian businessman she married in a lavish event in Buckinghamshire in 2011. The family home is in the Yorkshire village near Ripon, where her father Robert founded the Lightwater Valley theme parkHer father Robert is a wealthy landowner while mother Lynne was a former champion horsewoman.<div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS femail" data-version="2" id="mol-7541a1a0-2ab7-11ec-9497-ebb58f6eb32c" website Staveley, who brought blood money in the Premiership?
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