Rise and fall of the Maxwell empire
When British broadcaster Michael Parkinson asked entrepreneur Robert Maxwell, his guest on Desert Island Discs in 1987, what, at the end of the day was his achievement, Maxwell answered "the achievement... is that... I will have left the world a slightly better place by my having lived in it". Four years later, Maxwell's body was found in the water off the Canary Islands where his yacht Lady Ghislaine was sailing; no one knows whether his death was murder, suicide, or an accident and initially his demise was greeted as a great tragedy - the obituaries and plaudits did indeed suggest that he h...
Source: independent.ie