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A-LIST In 2005 with Jackie Caring, ex-wife of Richard, & Bill Clinton
He was once the king of the high street, enjoying luxury holidays and lavish bashes where he cosied up to glamorous celebrities. At one time, business titan Sir Philip Green counted Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Campbell and Simon Cowell among his A-list friends.
And he has been pictured at countless events with his arms draped around the likes of Liz Hurley, Kate Moss, Beyonce and Cara Delevingne.
The tycoon enjoys the trappings of his enormous wealth and is not shy about showing it off.
He commutes to London by private jet from his home in Monaco and stays in his own suite at The Dorchester hotel in posh Mayfair.
His vast personal fortune comes from building a retail empire that stretched from Topshop and Topman to Burton and Miss Selfridge.
But his crown slipped with the Richard Caring in 2008 £100million Lionheart doomed sale of BHS to investors with no retail experience in 2015. A year later the department store went to the wall with 11,000 job losses and a £571million pension fund black hole.
After lengthy talks, and a storm of criticism, Green agreed a £363million settlement with regulators.
Yet it was not enough to restore the image of a man who, in 2006, was knighted for services to retail by then Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Green was born into a well-off family from North London in March 1952.
His mum Alma built a buy-to-let property business and dad Simon’s firm repaired radios and rented out TVs.
But a book published earlier this year by journalist Oliver Shah claims Green’s upbringing was “emotionally barren”.
It claims Alma “starved her children of affection, relentlessly drilling into them the importance of making money above all else” and played them off against each other to “toughen them”. Green was just