The dastardly Mr Deedes
Roman Abramovich’s divorce from third wife Dasha Zhukova, 36, is predicted to put a sizeable dent in the Chelsea Football club proprietor’s £9bn fortune. Who’ll be the lucky litigator handling pouting Dasha’s legal affairs? Abramovich’s previous wife, ex-trolley dolly Irina Malandina, 50, secured a (then) record £150m pay-out after hiring cigar-chomping lawyer Raymond Tooth, who bills at £500 an hour and revels in the nickname ‘Jaws.’ Says my legal source: ‘Raymond would love to bite another chunk out of Roman.’
JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon was interviewed by CNBC yesterday where he denied rumours, reported here last week, that he’s considering running for President, saying: ‘I’m not stepping into the arena.’ After declaring himself a patriot several times, Dimon, 61, then began railing against government infrastructure. Asked to name his priorities he replied: ‘Family first, country second, JP Morgan third.’ Yup, he’s running for sure.
Bookmaker Paddy Power Betfair’s boyish-looking new chief executive Peter Jackson seems a self-effacing fellow. He likes to tell how, while boss of Travelex, he interviewed someone who mistook him for the tea boy. Very decent of him. Perhaps Porsche-driving Jackson, 41, will exercise similar clemency by scrapping Paddy Power’s irritating commercials, which have punctuated most sporting fixtures this summer.
Things you probably didn’t know: Apple’s casually attired design chief Sir Jonathan Ive, 50, the Chingford-born creative genius behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad, shares a tailor with the Prince of Wales.
Bulldog-jawed ex-Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn, now economic adviser to President Trump, attended a high profile fundraiser for breast cancer research in the Hamptons last weekend. Guests report Cohn wore a flashy pink shirt paired with white slacks and loafers with a pink cashmere sweater draped languidly across the back of his shoulders. Wonder if Cohn’s alpha dog boss had something to say about his aide’s foppish sartorial arrangement on Monday morning.