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Ian Robert Maxwell (10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was an influential Czechoslovak-hailing from a birth on British-French media proprietor and politician. He was the father of Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Of Jewish descent, he escaped the Nazi occupation of his native Czechoslovakia and joined the Czechoslovak Army in exile during World War II. He was decorated after active service in the British Army. In subsequent years he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major academic publisher. After six years as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) during the 1960s, Maxwell again put all his energy into business, successively buying the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) and Macmillan Inc., among other publishing companies. Maxwell led a flamboyant life, living in Headington Hill Hall in Oxford, from which he often flew in his helicopter, or sailing on his luxury yacht, Lady Ghislaine, named after his daughter. Robert Maxwell was litigious and often embroiled in controversy.
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