Goldman chief ’s PA ‘stole £860,000 of fine wine from him’

A TOP banker’s personal assistant has been arrested for allegedly stealing £860,000 in rare wine from his boss.

Nicolas De-Meyer is accused of taking hundreds of bottles from the vast collection of Goldman Sachs co-president David Solomon – including seven ultra-rare burgundies worth £13,750 each.

De-Meyer was responsible for collecting wine sent to Mr Solomon’s Manhattan apartment and taking it to the cellar at his property in Long Island’s prestigious Hamptons district.

The banker, 55, has been collecting wine for decades and is said to have a 1,000-bottle storage area at his city centre home, as well as the cellar in The Hamptons.

But it is alleged De-Meyer took some bottles and used the alias Mark Miller to sell them to a dealer in North Carolina.

The 40-year-old is said to have been fired in 2016 after Mr Solomon realised wine was missing, but fled the country.

He has since returned to America and has appeared in a federal court in Los Angeles.

A judge ruled De-Meyer must remain in custody before being taken to New York by US marshals, where he will face a charge of interstate transportation of stolen property. The assistant’s haul is said to have included seven bottles of burgundy from the French estate Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, purchased by Mr Solomon for £96,200.

Prosecutors said it is widely considered ‘among the best, most expensive and rarest wines in the world’.

Mr Solomon – who earns a basic salary of £1.3million and was handed a £7.2million bonus earlier this month – is tipped as a likely successor to Goldman chief executive Lloyd Blankfein.

He is a renowned luxury-lover once named ‘Mr Gourmet’ by eating society Bacchus America. He is a fan of high- end restaurants and is famous in the New York dining scene, as well as being an adventurous skier and even a part-time musician.

Mr Solomon mixes tracks at clubs in New York, Miami and the Bahamas under the name DJ D-Sol. He has posted photos of himself on social media spinning records and written about how he is ‘experimenting with vinyl’.

One video clip shows the banker performing in the Bahamas wearing a baseball cap, headphones and a T- shirt featuring the name Casamigos Tequila, surrounded by dancing women in bikinis and topless men wearing board shorts.