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I think it's fair to say that Ronson is mostly not a criminal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ronson

He's more "swashbuckling businessman who was a bit too swashbuckling" than "career criminal". Rather different to the post-Soviet oligarchs, at least.




Perhaps not "old money" looking at those dates, but I'm still reminded of:

> They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.

-- Making Money by Terry Pratchett


Music producer Mark Ronsons uncle too.




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