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    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      The Big Read
      The Barclay family, the banks and the billion-pound debt

      How a decade-long effort to restructure loans extended to the reclusive businessmen’s empire culminated in Lloyds Banking Group seizing control of a national newspaper

    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      Due Diligence
      The Barclay family debts that caused a media circus Premium content

      Plus, Wall Street swings a golf world peace treaty and money managers make Nvidia their AI champion

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    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      Telegraph Media Group Ltd
      Telegraph titles set to be sold after Lloyds calls in receivers

      UK bank to seek sale of media group over almost £1bn in debts owed by Barclay family

      A Daily Telegraph newspaper being through a letterbox
    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Telegraph owners dragged into Frederick Barclay’s court battle with ex-wife

      Judge summons brothers Aidan and Howard Barclay to give evidence in dispute over unpaid £100mn divorce settlement

      Howard and Aidan Barclay in 2006
    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Marriage and divorce
      Frederick Barclay told payment to ex-wife in £100mn divorce is ‘essential’

      Sentencing over contempt of court delayed after former owner of Daily Telegraph offers last-minute ‘proposal’ to Lady Hiroko

      Sir Frederick Barclay arrives at the Royal Courts Of Justice in London on Monday
    • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
      UK tycoon told ‘find a way’ to pay ex-wife as sentencing adjourned

      Judge postpones Sir Frederick Barclay ruling for three months after businessman found in contempt of court for failing to pay divorce fees

      Sir Frederick Barclay arrives at the High Court on Thursday
    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Due Diligence
      Red trousers and a yacht brawl: the trials of a powerful tycoon Premium content

      Plus, regulatory questions hang over a JetBlue/Spirit tie-up and Twitter reels from the Musk drama

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      UK tycoon faces jail over failure to pay ex-wife’s maintenance and legal costs

      Judge rules he is unable to conclude to ‘criminal standard’ that Frederick Barclay had means to pay first half of £100mn divorce settlement

      Sir Frederick Barclay arrives at court on Thursday
    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
      UK tycoon trying ‘extremely hard’ to find money for £100mn divorce

      Sir Frederick Barclay’s former wife seeks to have him sent to prison for contempt of court

      Lady Hiroko Barclay
    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
      Business tycoon accused of reneging on divorce settlement

      Former wife of Sir Frederick Barclay seeks to have him sent to prison for contempt of court

    • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
      Frederick Barclay faces possible prison term over divorce breach

      Telegraph owner failed to pay the first £50m of settlement due in August

    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      Barclay family settles dispute over bugging at Ritz

      Relatives issue joint statement saying ‘unity within families is more important than ever’

      The Ritz hotel
    • Wednesday, 5 May, 2021
      Law
      Frederick Barclay told to pay ex-wife £100m after divorce battle

      Judge criticises British billionaire’s behaviour over sale of luxury yacht

      Frederick Barclay
    • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
      David Barclay
      Daily Telegraph owner David Barclay dies

      Along with his twin brother, Sir David built a business empire spanning property, hotels and newspapers

      Sir David Barclay moved in tandem with his twin for most of their careers, first in the property and hotel sector before moving into shipping, retail and media
    • Monday, 8 June, 2020
      Law
      Relatives in Barclay family feud offer damages over Ritz bugging

      Defendants agree to pay Frederick Barclay and daughter following privacy breach but deny causing economic loss

      London’s Ritz Hotel
    • Monday, 18 May, 2020
      Barclay brother releases video of alleged Ritz hotel bugging

      Frederick Barclay questions fitness of his relatives to run the Telegraph newspapers

    • Wednesday, 6 May, 2020
      Travel & leisure industry
      Barclay family hired ex-police chief’s firm to bug Ritz hotel

      Court hears claim in lawsuit that has laid bare feud over media, retail and hospitality empire

      The Ritz hotel
    • Wednesday, 22 April, 2020
      UK property
      Ritz buyer revealed as brother-in-law of Qatar’s ruler

      40-year-old businessman Abdulhadi Mana Al-Hajri is new owner, according to UK filings

      A Qatari investor agreed to buy the Ritz hotel in Mayfair, London from the billionaire Barclay family last month
    • Friday, 27 March, 2020
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Qatari investor buys Ritz Hotel, inflaming Barclay family tensions

      Representative for Sir Frederick threatens litigation after deal announced

    • Wednesday, 4 March, 2020
      Frederick Barclay warns family over sale of Ritz

      Billionaire says he will sue if London hotel is sold for less than £1bn

      Green Park, LondonThe Ritz, Mayfair, near Green Park, London
    • Tuesday, 3 March, 2020
      Due Diligence
      Family Feud: battles within the billionaire Barclay clan Premium content

      Welcome to Due Diligence, the FT’s daily deals briefing

    • Friday, 28 February, 2020
      Person in the News
      The Barclay brothers, twins tussling over the family fortune

      These reclusive media billionaires have become embroiled in a lurid domestic feud

    • Friday, 28 February, 2020
      UK companies
      Barclay family feud takes a grave turn 

      Secret recordings in The Ritz and business discord tear apart the influential estate

    • Friday, 28 February, 2020
      FT AlphavilleBillionaires
      Why is Sir Frederick Barclay’s name not on his father’s gravestone? 

      A dark twist in this unravelling family feud. 

    • Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Court hears how feuding Barclay family members bugged Ritz

      Dispute between children of billionaire twins pivots on covert recordings and WhatsApp messages

      CITY Littlewoods...PA file picture dated 31/10/00 of multi-millionaires Sir David Barclay (left) and his twin Sir Frederick, otherwise known as the Barclay Brothers. The reclusive media entrepreneurs today bought retail group Littlewoods in a 750 million deal. See PA story CITY Littlewoods. PA photo: Michael Stephens.
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