The dastardly Mr Deedes

Glamorous financier Amanda Staveley is busy filming her big screen debut. Prince Andrew’s former consort recently won a cameo in Sir Ridley Scott’s All The money In The World after bidding £16,000 at an auction in aid of the old Vic theatre. The film, which stars oscar-winner Kevin Spacey, tells the story of the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty’s grandson, whose ear was severed by his captors when the notoriously frugal industrialist refused to pay their $17m ransom. The old miser eventually agreed to cough up $2.9m, the maximum amount that was tax deductible. JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon’s rant about the gridlock in US politics, in which he recently described being an American citizen as an ‘embarrassment’, provokes an interesting theory in the City. A former colleague of Dimon is convinced the enduring ‘King of Wall Street’ plans a tilt at the White House in 2020. City law firm DLA Piper is still reeling from the recent cyber attack which has left its well-remunerated lawyers with limited access to email and the company intranet. The poor lambs have been offered free soothing rubdowns by the firm to help them cope with the stress caused by the meltdown. Sensitive flowers in the legal profession, aren’t they? Eccentric businessman Sir David Tang, 62, tells the FT he once met North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, where the supreme leader’s tailor crafted him one of Kim’s oafish-looking suits. Sir David previously claimed to have lunched in the Sahara with Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi ‘whose tassels from his epaulettes would not have looked out of place on Barbara Cartland’s drawing-room curtains’. Tango’s a frightful name-dropper, but he’s good value. Bob Diamond’s daughter nell welcomes her father’s recent 66th birthday, writing on social media: ‘HBD Bobby D.’ nell’s fond of an abbreviation or two. When papa was forced out of Barclays, she suggested (then) chancellor George osborne should ‘go ahead and HmD,’ shorthand for a particularly grubby term of disgruntlement, the first two letters of which stand for ‘Hold my’.