Cowell cuts his ties with Philip Green
Cowell and Green SIMON Cowell is said to be relieved after cutting all ties with Sir Philip Green.
The X Factor judge is believed to have spent €11million buying out the tycoon’s 5% shareholding in his company Syco.
One friend of Cowell, 59, said he had considered any link with the high street billionaire to be “toxic”.
The source added: “Simon is relieved it’s all over between the two of them.
“It’s taken a while to sort out but he is glad he can finally draw a line under the whole business.”
The share buyout is understood to have been brokered by Baroness Karren Brady.
She is chairman of Taveta, the holding company of Green’s Arcadia retail empire, which includes Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins.
Green, 66, has been accused by ex-staff of bullying, sexual harassment and racism.
He sought gagging orders to stop the press from naming him over the allegations. But his friendship with Cowell is said to have broken down at about the time of BHS’S collapse in 2016. Inhaler music video Bono with Eli as a toddler and, above, with his band and Mirror reporter Sharon