WEBVTT - You Gotta Fast Eddie: Edward Davenport

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<v Speaker 1>Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio Zaren Elizabeth.

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<v Speaker 2>Check it out. Yeah, you know it's ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh my god, girl, Yes, mosquitoes.

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<v Speaker 2>They're so I hate mosquitoes.

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<v Speaker 3>I know someone actually likes enjoys mosquito bites. Okay, they

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<v Speaker 3>like how they get the feeling, the annoyance anyway, that

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<v Speaker 3>they're weird. But my point is, mosquitoes, I just found

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<v Speaker 3>out recently, are attracted to all my favorite foods.

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<v Speaker 2>Huh.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they're attracted to bananas. Okay, they're attracted to dried

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<v Speaker 3>fruit beer. I mean, this is my diet. What am

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<v Speaker 3>I supposed to do?

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<v Speaker 2>They love me? I am so sweet for them. Oh really,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm delicious to mosquitoes.

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<v Speaker 3>What type of blood do you have?

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<v Speaker 2>Red?

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<v Speaker 3>No? What like ab oh? You know d do you

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<v Speaker 3>know what? Honestly, do you know what?

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<v Speaker 2>Whole blood?

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<v Speaker 3>Because mosquitoes are attracted to oh blood way more than

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<v Speaker 3>any of the.

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<v Speaker 2>Other No, I think I'm like ABCD.

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<v Speaker 3>If you have type oh blood, you're eighty three percent

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<v Speaker 3>more likely to attract mosquito. Really, yes, I've been over

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<v Speaker 3>here just investigating mosquito trying to find out how I

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<v Speaker 3>can get around them. Yeah, right, I'm just gonna wear

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<v Speaker 3>all sleeves, dude.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been I've been like covered in mosquito bites once,

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<v Speaker 2>really like painfully. In fact, one time I got mosquito

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<v Speaker 2>bites so badly all over my bare legs. And then

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<v Speaker 2>I had to fly out and go to someone's wedding

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<v Speaker 2>and I had a dress I don't usually wear dress.

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<v Speaker 2>I had a dress that like went to my knees.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh no. And you know friend of the show, Sarah

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<v Speaker 2>TACIONI Golden, she spent like two hours trying to use concealers.

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<v Speaker 2>Do I have I not heard of stockings? I planned

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<v Speaker 2>to wear these open toe shoes op to heels, and

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't want to do that open toe with stockings.

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<v Speaker 2>And then someone was at the wedding with open toe

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<v Speaker 2>and stockings, and all of us were pointing and laughing.

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<v Speaker 2>So better to just go with like totally disgusting palkmark legs.

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<v Speaker 3>You know what that is ridiculous? That's ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, Do you want to know what else is ridiculous?

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<v Speaker 3>Dude? That's why I showed up orgies.

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<v Speaker 2>What this is ridiculous? Crime a podcast about absurd and

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<v Speaker 2>outrageous capers, heists and cons it's always ninety nine percent

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<v Speaker 2>murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 3>I know, you heard that.

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<v Speaker 2>British eighties and nineties tabloid culture.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh my god, it was a thing. Yeah, it was.

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<v Speaker 3>It was vicious.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a lifestyle choice.

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<v Speaker 3>You know.

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<v Speaker 2>There's all the gossip that they had about.

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<v Speaker 3>Like the Royal page six stuff. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was like the Bazoom bagals.

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<v Speaker 3>Or Yakini that's in the paper. Yeah, Charles and Die.

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<v Speaker 2>Remember Tatler magazine still there. They would spill the goods

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<v Speaker 2>on like the upper class.

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<v Speaker 3>They hated Fergie, that redheaded, unfortunate poor dear.

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<v Speaker 2>And then they were like the Sloane Rangers. Are you do?

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<v Speaker 2>You know that what they're called.

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<v Speaker 3>IM familiar with the term.

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<v Speaker 2>So a Sloane ranger is like an upper middle class,

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<v Speaker 2>upper class woman who dresses and acts and vacations and

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<v Speaker 2>plays like just like her peer group. It's sort of

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<v Speaker 2>like an early influencer. So they have this look. It's

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<v Speaker 2>super uniform and preppy.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah that's what I remember.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think of like a crisp white shirt and like.

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<v Speaker 3>Blazers and definitely blazer.

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<v Speaker 2>Blonde hair in a low pony which like there's a

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<v Speaker 2>comedian who does this thing about how like when you

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<v Speaker 2>see low pony on like a celebrity or model, it

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<v Speaker 2>looks so cool and you do it, you put it on,

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<v Speaker 2>you look like one of the founding fathers. That's me.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the problem I have. But like classic styles for

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<v Speaker 2>the Sloane Rangers, like an air scarf and like whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>In the US the look is called preppy. In France,

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<v Speaker 2>it's called Bonjean. Princess Di was nipuzl.

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<v Speaker 3>I've never heard that one before.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she was the peak the panicle. Princess Die a

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<v Speaker 2>boy Sloan was called a raw for who raw Harry.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a real who raw Harry r r a h.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh like Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>So the name Sloane Ranger comes from Sloane Square in Chelsea.

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<v Speaker 2>That's where the rich folks living around, and so the

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<v Speaker 2>name the name was created in nineteen seventy five in

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<v Speaker 2>an article in Harper's and Queen magazine. And in the

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<v Speaker 2>eighties it was the look.

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<v Speaker 3>That was it familiar.

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<v Speaker 2>And in the eighties there were lots of parties and

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<v Speaker 2>fabulous places that catered to the Sloane Rangers. One empresario

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<v Speaker 2>who showed them a good time. Was a man named

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<v Speaker 2>Edward Ormus Sherrington Davenport.

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<v Speaker 3>That's a serious name.

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<v Speaker 2>Edward Ormas Sherrington Davenport. Wow, Lord Edward Davenport A ka

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<v Speaker 2>fast Eddie Fast, Eddy Fast. So who's this fast Eddie?

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<v Speaker 3>Right?

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<v Speaker 2>Let me give you a breakdown. He was born in

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen sixty six in Kensington, London. So he went to

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<v Speaker 2>something called a crammer. I'm loving this. Where do you go?

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<v Speaker 2>I go to a crammer? There are private prep schools

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<v Speaker 2>that specialize in prepping students for entrance exams to college

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<v Speaker 2>kuman like a college prep cramming like studying and they're

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<v Speaker 2>just going to c in there. So it was a

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<v Speaker 2>posh school and he's surrounded by posh kids. It wasn't poor,

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<v Speaker 2>but he wasn't at their level. So the first gig

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<v Speaker 2>he had, the first job he ever came up with

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<v Speaker 2>for himself, is he would like go walking on down

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<v Speaker 2>Tutelan to the local shops. He'd buy a bunch of

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<v Speaker 2>can and and then he'd toolon back to the school

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<v Speaker 2>and sell it to all the rich kids at a

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<v Speaker 2>major markup because they were too lazy to hoof it

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<v Speaker 2>down to the shops and pick up like an arrow bar.

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<v Speaker 3>I did the exact same thing. So what got me

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<v Speaker 3>kicked out of the boy Scouts.

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<v Speaker 2>So he started to see that he could make money

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<v Speaker 2>and it wasn't too hard.

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<v Speaker 3>But laziness is a great way to make money.

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<v Speaker 2>Other people's laziness a perfect that's most of like what

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<v Speaker 2>you see the product.

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<v Speaker 3>A lot of services are based on them.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So he starts selling cheap jeans at the Portobello

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<v Speaker 2>Road Market port Road. It's fantastic, I love it. Anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>He wanted to make the bed moms.

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<v Speaker 3>And brunsticks that has that song Portobello Road, I think

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<v Speaker 3>it is.

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<v Speaker 2>Anyway, they're famous for their mushrooms. So he he wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to make money. He wanted to have a good time

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<v Speaker 2>making money. I mean, isn't that the goal?

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<v Speaker 3>She loves Don't be here for a long time, but

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<v Speaker 3>for a good time.

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<v Speaker 2>That's me man. Yeah. So he wanted to surround himself

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<v Speaker 2>with the swells. He wanted to be one of the swell.

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<v Speaker 3>Sure, So one.

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<v Speaker 2>Year in his late teens, he threw himself a birthday party.

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<v Speaker 2>Was massive, extravagant. Everyone loved it, and the rich kids

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<v Speaker 2>begged him to throw another one please. It was so fun.

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<v Speaker 2>But the party. It costs serious money to put on

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<v Speaker 2>big parties.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh I, especially if you're trying to impress the word.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, that's the problem. Like when you throw a good

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<v Speaker 2>party and then everyone's like, oh, we should do that again,

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<v Speaker 2>And like you throw a good dinner party and suddenly

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<v Speaker 2>everyone wants to have the dinner party at your house

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<v Speaker 2>and you're like, a hi, guys, it's gonna be a

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<v Speaker 2>pot look, and they're like, that's not the kind of

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<v Speaker 2>way you party. I'm like, I know, so okay, I'll

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<v Speaker 2>just eat the cost. He thought about it. He's like,

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<v Speaker 2>it costs a lot of money, but I could actually

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<v Speaker 2>make money on this. I'm going to charge admission.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh.

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<v Speaker 2>So, in nineteen eighty three, he's nineteen years old, fast Eddie,

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<v Speaker 2>he co founded a party company with a pal of

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<v Speaker 2>his name, Jeremy Taylor. They gave it a great name.

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<v Speaker 2>They called it gate Crasher Limited.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh I thought it was gonna be Lord and Taylor.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, good one. So they put together all these

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<v Speaker 2>amazing bucchanalias.

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<v Speaker 3>Nice I love Balia.

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<v Speaker 2>They did invite boys from the boys' school. Okay, girls

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<v Speaker 2>from the girls.

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<v Speaker 3>That does work out well.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I went to a girls school. I know, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>you just short circuit when you see a boy's. Like,

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<v Speaker 2>we used to have like exchange days where all the

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<v Speaker 2>Catholic schools would kind of you'd send students around as

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<v Speaker 2>like your representatives to like show that you're logical, good people.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you guys have we did the thing where we

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<v Speaker 3>would exchange basically like we had a really good big

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<v Speaker 3>pool at Jesuit, so the girls school didn't have a

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<v Speaker 3>big pool, so they would come over and do their

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<v Speaker 3>swim practice at our school and let me tell you,

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<v Speaker 3>the stands were full of people rooting for the women's team.

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<v Speaker 2>Francis, I never got sent out to another school. They

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<v Speaker 2>were just like, no, that's not a good We don't

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<v Speaker 2>want them to know this is what we're like. And

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<v Speaker 2>so they'd like, you know, exemplary Catholic youth would be

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<v Speaker 2>sent to other schools, and then exemplary Catholic youth show

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<v Speaker 2>up at our school. And when the boys, yes from

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<v Speaker 2>the boys school or one of the co ed schools.

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<v Speaker 2>Bishop of Dowd is a Poe at school, they'd show up.

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<v Speaker 2>It was just like we would literally like our brain's

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<v Speaker 2>short circuit. Its smoke came out of our ears, and

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<v Speaker 2>we're just like, I can't function. There's a there's a.

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<v Speaker 3>Boy here like them are coloring hall.

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<v Speaker 2>We're just like everyone's like they can't focus.

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<v Speaker 3>I feel like I'm too many clothes. I take up

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<v Speaker 3>some of these clothes.

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<v Speaker 2>The nuns are on their like last nerve. They can't

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<v Speaker 2>take it with us, and they're just like whatever. We're

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<v Speaker 2>just you know, you're you're you're old enough to do work,

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<v Speaker 2>but here's a coloring book. I can't with you today.

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<v Speaker 2>So anyway, So that's what he's doing. He's organizing this.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not exemplary Catholic Keith, I got you just yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>rich kids. So boys' school, girls school booze great music

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<v Speaker 2>and so they're not like parties that someone's flat or

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<v Speaker 2>like a local parish hall. He has them at country

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<v Speaker 2>homes with names like long Lead and Weston Park. Wow,

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<v Speaker 2>like Biggins, Yeah, like Lord's Manners, like some Downton Abbey kid.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah exactly, I seen the show, know what you made?

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<v Speaker 2>Sure? I don't watch TV. So, uh, there're they weren't

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<v Speaker 2>small affairs because these are big places. Some of them

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<v Speaker 2>had ten thousand people there.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh wow, there's small villages parties exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>So with crowds that big, you know he's making money.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh God, I hope.

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<v Speaker 2>So try two hundred and fifty thousand pounds per year

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<v Speaker 2>on for size Sarah. Wow. Yeah, and at its peak

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<v Speaker 2>hundred tons. Yes, it is peak. There's just pounds of

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<v Speaker 2>like blubber. At its peak the company made one million

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<v Speaker 2>pounds a year on these things. Pounds sterling Ah, Peter York.

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<v Speaker 2>You don't know him, but.

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<v Speaker 3>He's don't know who I know social.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe it is. He a person friend, a social commentator,

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<v Speaker 2>and he's the co author of the Sloane Ranger's handbook

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<v Speaker 2>So Good. He described the scene quote, they were an

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<v Speaker 2>instant rave for Sloane Rangers, but with a real kind

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<v Speaker 2>of car dealers feel to them. It's a good money spinner,

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<v Speaker 2>a way to make a fast buck. It's having all

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<v Speaker 2>the technology and ideology of rays. But each time you

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<v Speaker 2>read about it it's presented as a posh ball sending

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<v Speaker 2>a signal to certain types of parents and their children.

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<v Speaker 2>It just goes to show that the aspirations of the

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<v Speaker 2>Sloane Ranger days are not dead. There are still kids

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<v Speaker 2>who want to be with their own kind.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh I caught that last line.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and of course this wasn't just happy times in

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<v Speaker 2>a strobelt.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, mansion, no No.

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<v Speaker 2>Reporter Alexander Reynolds said, quote, I finally met him. He's

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<v Speaker 2>talking about fast Eddie In nineteen eighty seven, when I

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<v Speaker 2>was working as a teenage correspondent for Punch magazine, where

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<v Speaker 2>full disclosure, my dad was the arts editor. I saw

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<v Speaker 2>him walking along King's Road one sunny day. He was thin,

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<v Speaker 2>very thin, light gray, double breasted suit, gel back hair,

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<v Speaker 2>smile like a Halloween skull. I knew the guy he

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<v Speaker 2>was with and homed in for an introduction. He gave

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<v Speaker 2>me a part time job taking photos at the gate

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<v Speaker 2>Crasher Balls at age seventeen. I thought the gig would

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<v Speaker 2>be one big, long Gatsby Mansion romance, where simplicity of

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<v Speaker 2>heart would be its own ticket of admission. Boy was

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<v Speaker 2>I wrong. So I must say that the first time

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<v Speaker 2>I read the quote, I read smile like a Halloween

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<v Speaker 2>skull as smells like a Halloween skull.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, and I spent.

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<v Speaker 2>Perhaps too much time wondering what that would smell like.

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<v Speaker 3>And why Nirvana rejected it as a song title.

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<v Speaker 2>And then I reread the sentence and I felt really stupid,

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<v Speaker 2>so I thought I'd tell everyone about this too.

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<v Speaker 3>I am I like that this is pre like any

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<v Speaker 3>Heath Ledger movie as a joker. So you didn't say

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<v Speaker 3>joker smile.

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<v Speaker 2>Now you Yeah, exactly, And so Reynolds he says he

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<v Speaker 2>was wrong to think that it was a big long

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<v Speaker 2>Gatsby mansion romance. Nope, this is a business.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>And while it was businessing very well, order of the sloan, right, Sorry,

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's businessing very well, but it's not businessing very well.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh. There was a distinction.

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<v Speaker 2>Custom is an excisee audit, and it was not a

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<v Speaker 2>clean one. It revealed that fast Eddie had underpaid his

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<v Speaker 2>VAT bill. Oh value added tax. Yeah, so it's assessed incrementally,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's levied on the price of a product or

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<v Speaker 2>a service whatever, at each stage of production, distribution and

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<v Speaker 2>then or sale to the end customer. So at fast

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<v Speaker 2>Eddie Davenport, he understated his tax returns by you know,

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<v Speaker 2>almost twenty five thousand pounds. And he also lied and

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<v Speaker 2>said that only three pounds fifty of the fourteen pound

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<v Speaker 2>entry fee for the gate crashers ball was liable for VAT. Oh.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>According to him, the other ten pounds fifty was for

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<v Speaker 2>raffle tickets, a magazine subscription and posted.

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<v Speaker 3>So it was non tax, was what he saying.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what he's saying. But the crowd, the Crown prosecutor

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<v Speaker 2>was like, yes, in the Crown prosecutor legal business, we

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<v Speaker 2>call that cheating. So November nineteen ninety, Davenport he gets

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<v Speaker 2>convicted of tax evasion and he's sentenced to nine months

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<v Speaker 2>in jail.

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<v Speaker 3>So the end of the eighties for him.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. However, the sentence was reduced on appeal to a

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<v Speaker 2>nine month suspended sentence for tax fraud and he served

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<v Speaker 2>only two weeks. Two weeks. Two weeks.

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<v Speaker 1>So.

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<v Speaker 2>In a two thousand and six interview with Tatler magazine,

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<v Speaker 2>Davenport was asked how he coped with those two weeks.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, yes, please tell us. How did you manage? How

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<v Speaker 3>many tattoos did you get?

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<v Speaker 2>Quote boring, There aren't many parties there. I learned nothing

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<v Speaker 2>from my experience in there. Anything you do you have

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<v Speaker 2>to make sure is within the law. You can do

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<v Speaker 2>things within the law and make money. Now, we are

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<v Speaker 2>very careful to make sure that we are playing by

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<v Speaker 2>the rules.

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<v Speaker 3>Someone should ask him what he thought of toilet wine

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<v Speaker 3>a little pruno.

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<v Speaker 2>Then he said, quote basically, gate Crasher was bloody good fun.

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<v Speaker 2>I enjoyed every moment of it and was incredibly naive

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<v Speaker 2>about things like that. When you're nineteen and making money,

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<v Speaker 2>you don't think about tax This is true, That's very true.

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<v Speaker 2>So the conviction wasn't the only problem that gate Crasher limited.

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<v Speaker 2>At the time, the tabloids started running pictures of the parties.

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<v Speaker 2>So there's little Birdie Sharpington Millworks, cocks with their knockers,

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<v Speaker 2>hanging out, dancing with Clancy Wilkes, Pemberton Masters. The families

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<v Speaker 2>were not pleased, Saren, and thus died the gate Crash. No,

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<v Speaker 2>no worries, bro Fast Eddie Davenport is full of ideas.

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<v Speaker 2>So he started a luxury pawnbrokering business, which is kind

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<v Speaker 2>of genius, right.

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<v Speaker 3>So he travels those.

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<v Speaker 2>Circles and so he could be there for those who

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<v Speaker 2>needed like quick Buck. You know, it's the people whose

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<v Speaker 2>parents like you know, didn't didn't know about all these

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<v Speaker 2>you know, debts, or like the people who live in

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<v Speaker 2>big rambling estates that have little or no cash flow.

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<v Speaker 3>Sure, but they've got nice old silver Yeah, so.

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<v Speaker 2>He handled mostly jewelry and he did cars. So like Emeralds, pearls, BMW's.

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<v Speaker 3>I get it. Yeah, like you got Ben's or whatever,

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<v Speaker 3>a Bentley and you need to move it right.

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<v Speaker 2>So this is what he said about it. Quote, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>opening a new office to deal with loans of twenty

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<v Speaker 2>five thousand pounds above. This is an ideal service. If

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<v Speaker 2>people need cash in a hurry, I give it to them.

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<v Speaker 2>There are no questions asked. All they have to do

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<v Speaker 2>is leave something of worth and we're happy. At any

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<v Speaker 2>one time, I will have about sixty cars in storage.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, Monte Carlo would be a fantastic place to

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<v Speaker 2>set up shop. All those casinos. The potential for lending

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<v Speaker 2>is massive. You should really go one day. So the

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<v Speaker 2>clients who wanted to be able to reclaim their belongings,

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<v Speaker 2>they had like a minimum of five percent interest a

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<v Speaker 2>month on the loan.

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<v Speaker 3>That's actually not as bad as I thought it was

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<v Speaker 3>going to be. Yeah, being basically the veig on this.

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<v Speaker 2>So he's doing well and he wanted to add to that.

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<v Speaker 2>So he went out and he got a memorial title

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<v Speaker 2>of the village of Gifford in Shropshire, and that allowed

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<v Speaker 2>him to call himself Lord Edward.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, there he's landed.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, Yeah, he's not a member of the peerage. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>so he's fast Eddie, he's Lord Eddie. He's shady Eddie.

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<v Speaker 2>In nineteen ninety six he moves on to another venture.

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<v Speaker 2>He'd take out leases on bars, pubs, nightclubs in London

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<v Speaker 2>and then he'd turn around and rent them out. So

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<v Speaker 2>he's like basically sublettingh god for tenants that didn't know

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<v Speaker 2>they were subletting, and he'd you know, get a tidy

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<v Speaker 2>profit because he's jacking the price. He said himself, quote,

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<v Speaker 2>now I've returned to London to do what I do best,

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<v Speaker 2>buying leases on loss making properties, returning them to a

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<v Speaker 2>profit and then selling them. My new company bought Bar

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<v Speaker 2>Circa from Allied Dominique when it was losing one hundred

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<v Speaker 2>thousand pounds a year, and we already have made it profitable.

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<v Speaker 3>Come. He sees value that others don't see, and then

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<v Speaker 3>he goes to the people who don't see the value

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<v Speaker 3>and goes, you want to buy this.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, precisely, and so's it's just that his company wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>buying and so like sniffing a story BBC gets in

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<v Speaker 2>on it. You'd come to find out he was increasing

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<v Speaker 2>the rents with sometimes no more than two weeks notice,

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<v Speaker 2>and he'd come up with new terms and then threatened

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<v Speaker 2>to evict the club if he didn't. So it isn't

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<v Speaker 2>like if you're living in a crappy apartment you can

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<v Speaker 2>just move out if the landlord's terrible.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a business. Yeah, you're tying.

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<v Speaker 2>Can't just move it at your livelihood. So he played

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<v Speaker 2>it even closer to the bone and started like failing

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<v Speaker 2>to pay his own rent to the actual owners. Oh no,

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<v Speaker 2>he just pocketed the rent from the club or bar,

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<v Speaker 2>and then the real landlord comes calling.

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<v Speaker 3>I had this happen with the landlord. I live with

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<v Speaker 3>a guy who was giving him the rent and he

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<v Speaker 3>wasn't giving it to the landlord. One day, the landlord

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<v Speaker 3>showed up and said, you're all evicted.

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, what right, Okay, so that's what Eddie's doing. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>I feel Davenport he denies the claims. He said, quote

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<v Speaker 2>it was a very far fetched piece. It was really

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<v Speaker 2>really irrelevant programming talking about the BBC investigation investigators with

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<v Speaker 2>the Department of Trade and Industry as well as the cops.

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<v Speaker 2>They got together and they raided fast Eddie's house in

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<v Speaker 2>two thousand and six, and that was in connection with

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<v Speaker 2>two property companies that went under still owing millions of pounds.

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<v Speaker 2>Action was taken against an audit firm. But Davenport of

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<v Speaker 2>did any legal proceedings. Why why he did everything through

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<v Speaker 2>an intermediary. His name was never on anything. He never

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<v Speaker 2>spoke directly to anybody.

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<v Speaker 3>He's going to real British gangster.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, completely. So nineteen ninety eight, he along with two

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<v Speaker 2>others they posed as aristocrats and they ran up an

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<v Speaker 2>eighteen thousand pounds bill at glenn Egels, you know glenn

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<v Speaker 2>Egels luxury resort in Scotland. YA five day New Year's

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<v Speaker 2>Eve party. Then they skip out on the bill and

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<v Speaker 2>he was facing charges for that, but everything gets dropped

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<v Speaker 2>when he just failed to show up in court.

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<v Speaker 3>Does guy Richie know this story? Oh my god.

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<v Speaker 2>So his lawyers deliver a doctor's note that said he

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<v Speaker 2>was experiencing renal failure and was on kidney dialysis.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, things that old move. But he wasn't lying, Oh

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<v Speaker 3>he really was.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Now I'm not sure how that excuse is not

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<v Speaker 2>paying for a five day party. But you know you

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<v Speaker 2>do you?

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, whatever, let's take a break.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, when we come back, Sierra Leone will enter the chat.

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<v Speaker 3>What zaren, Elizabeth?

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<v Speaker 2>I was telling you about fast Eddie, Ormis, Sherrington Davenport.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yes, Lord Davenport's.

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<v Speaker 2>Party Empire, and then I mentioned Sierra Leone.

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<v Speaker 3>You did, I remember wrote help with that?

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<v Speaker 2>With that?

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<v Speaker 3>Why that mountain Lion.

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<v Speaker 2>Let me tell you. In the nineties, Sierra Leone was

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<v Speaker 2>in the middle of a terrible civil war.

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<v Speaker 3>Horrendous, yeah, child soldiers, the whole band, oh god.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Things were about to get worse than an already

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<v Speaker 2>terrible situation when in nineteen ninety seven there was a

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<v Speaker 2>coup to overthrow the president and then the UN and

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<v Speaker 2>British forces came in to help squash it. Did you

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<v Speaker 2>know that this made UK Prime Minister Tony Blair a

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<v Speaker 2>sort of hero to the people of Sierra Leone.

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<v Speaker 3>I did not, I noticed. I do know that Tony

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<v Speaker 3>Blair is hero to some people. That will surprise you.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh huh, yeah, exactly interesting times we live in. But

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<v Speaker 2>let's go back a tiny bit to nineteen ninety six.

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<v Speaker 2>So the civil wars, raging government finances are thinning somehow,

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<v Speaker 2>fast Eddie Davenport, Oh No, gets approached by the cash

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<v Speaker 2>strapped government of Sierra Leone. What so he meets with

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<v Speaker 2>the Foreign Minister and High Commissioner of Sierra Leone, Professor

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<v Speaker 2>Cyril Foray, fore laid out his problem the High commission building. Basically,

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<v Speaker 2>the Embassy sure was a wreck. It was a huge

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<v Speaker 2>mansion at thirty three Portland Place, built in seventeen seventy five.

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<v Speaker 2>In its glory, it was an unbelievable building. But it

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<v Speaker 2>had been neglected.

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<v Speaker 3>And the Government of America and fallen down.

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<v Speaker 2>But Sierra Leone government couldn't They can't afford to fix it.

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<v Speaker 2>And it wasn't just fixing it up. They couldn't make

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<v Speaker 2>their rent.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh they didn't. They didn't even own it, no renovation,

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<v Speaker 3>but they.

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<v Speaker 2>Still had twenty years on the lease. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>So they couldn't just walk away from it, right, So

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<v Speaker 2>what are they going to do?

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<v Speaker 3>They need fast Eddie Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>Nineteen ninety seven rolls around, The coup takes place and

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<v Speaker 2>then it's put down. Sierra Leone government is trying to

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<v Speaker 2>get UN peacekeepers to come and assist the British who

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<v Speaker 2>were just holding everything down. In nineteen ninety nine, Davenport

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<v Speaker 2>makes a deal with the Sierra Leone government. He said

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<v Speaker 2>he would rehab the building with the condition that he

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<v Speaker 2>would provide alternative offices for the High Commission. And then

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<v Speaker 2>a clause in the contract allowed Sierra Leone to buy

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<v Speaker 2>back the property for one point five million pounds the

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<v Speaker 2>next year.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh no, yeah, oh no, I hear it. So that

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<v Speaker 3>next year, I hear that, right, you said, buy back, Okay,

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<v Speaker 3>go on.

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<v Speaker 2>Next year came and went, and it wasn't like they're

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<v Speaker 2>just sitting on their thumbs in West Africa, like between

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen ninety one and two thousand and one, yes, fifty

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<v Speaker 2>thousand people were killed in this civil war and hundreds

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<v Speaker 2>of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes

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<v Speaker 2>and become refugees. They went to Liberia in two thousand

0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:08.080
<v Speaker 2>and one. The government was busy seron. So the UN

0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:12.240
<v Speaker 2>forces they arrive, they're taking rebel held areas and disarming

0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:15.920
<v Speaker 2>the rebel soldiers. Meanwhile, they've got thirty three Portland Place.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the least of their worries, a building they couldn't

0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:21.240
<v Speaker 2>even afford to buy back. They're not thinking about this.

0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:24.600
<v Speaker 2>So since the government hadn't paid him the one point

0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:29.040
<v Speaker 2>five million to take control of the building. Davenport says,

0:23:29.119 --> 0:23:32.199
<v Speaker 2>it's his mine, it's not mine, and he made it

0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:35.280
<v Speaker 2>his base in London. He made it his private residence.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah wow.

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<v Speaker 2>So the government of Sierra Leone, they took legal action

0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:44.399
<v Speaker 2>against him. They accused him of exploiting the chaos in

0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:47.240
<v Speaker 2>their country in order to cheat him out of the

0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:53.399
<v Speaker 2>twenty four bedroom, five story mansions. Five damn, it's huge.

0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:56.360
<v Speaker 2>And they also said that he conspired with the then

0:23:56.480 --> 0:23:58.840
<v Speaker 2>High Commissioner to get the property on the cheap.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh.

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<v Speaker 2>Instead of fighting, sorry, and the guy doesn't fight the accusation,

0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:06.760
<v Speaker 2>he just resigns.

0:24:05.240 --> 0:24:07.639
<v Speaker 3>For mister forre Oh. Look African corruption.

0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:10.919
<v Speaker 2>Because see Davenport, he got possession of it from Sierra

0:24:11.040 --> 0:24:14.680
<v Speaker 2>Leone for fifty thousand pounds. Oh, He's like, I'll give

0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:17.320
<v Speaker 2>you fifty thousand pounds for it. It's worth five million

0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:18.080
<v Speaker 2>pounds at the time.

0:24:18.160 --> 0:24:20.520
<v Speaker 3>He's like, you know why people have traditionally exploited your people.

0:24:20.960 --> 0:24:24.160
<v Speaker 2>Any traditions going going come on for old times sake.

0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:27.560
<v Speaker 2>Lawyers for Sierra Leone they issued a writ in London

0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:30.880
<v Speaker 2>that said Davenport had masked the true value of the property.

0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:34.040
<v Speaker 2>But remember the place was run down, and so an

0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:38.400
<v Speaker 2>independent appraiser comes commissioned by the Sierra Leone government. He said,

0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:40.720
<v Speaker 2>the government's interest in the building was like pretty much

0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:45.040
<v Speaker 2>worthless because Davenport had renovated the place completely, doing more

0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:48.680
<v Speaker 2>than one point three million in repairs. So he poured.

0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:50.840
<v Speaker 2>Davenport pours all his money and do it to fix

0:24:50.880 --> 0:24:53.320
<v Speaker 2>it up. And they're like, Sierra Leone, you couldn't make

0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:55.120
<v Speaker 2>the rent, you couldn't pay him the one point.

0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:57.119
<v Speaker 3>Five You're out of this.

0:24:57.119 --> 0:24:59.879
<v Speaker 2>This is what Davenport said about it quote, it is

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<v Speaker 2>been a frightening experience the government of Sierra Leone.

0:25:03.040 --> 0:25:03.320
<v Speaker 3>Him.

0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:06.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the government of Sierra Leone approached me to help

0:25:06.400 --> 0:25:08.760
<v Speaker 2>them out, and I did. They had no money and

0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:10.640
<v Speaker 2>needed to sell the house, which was in a very

0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:13.280
<v Speaker 2>bad state of repair. Not many people would have taken

0:25:13.320 --> 0:25:16.280
<v Speaker 2>the risk of dealing with the Sierra Leone government. Obviously,

0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:18.959
<v Speaker 2>as a property developer, I wanted to make a profit

0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:21.119
<v Speaker 2>on the house, and I still think I can, but

0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:23.880
<v Speaker 2>there's no guarantee. It is a few years off before

0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:25.919
<v Speaker 2>I can say whether it will be a bargain. In

0:25:25.960 --> 0:25:30.280
<v Speaker 2>the meantime, I won't be going on holiday in Sierra Leone.

0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:32.439
<v Speaker 3>Talking to the press. Does this man no favors?

0:25:32.480 --> 0:25:33.440
<v Speaker 2>Never? Okay?

0:25:33.520 --> 0:25:36.880
<v Speaker 3>So he sounds every time he's host Well, there are.

0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:40.040
<v Speaker 2>Ways of doing business that are within the law technically,

0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:43.320
<v Speaker 2>but those ways are always pretty much low. You know,

0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:45.640
<v Speaker 2>this was low. This was a low thing to do.

0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:49.639
<v Speaker 2>The government was struggling. He took advantage of it, and

0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:51.040
<v Speaker 2>I know that's the nature of the game.

0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:54.119
<v Speaker 3>And yeah, but it's low and fear.

0:25:54.480 --> 0:25:56.800
<v Speaker 2>Yes, And that's the thing about this guy, Like a

0:25:56.800 --> 0:25:58.800
<v Speaker 2>lot of times he's within the law, but he just

0:25:58.880 --> 0:26:02.320
<v Speaker 2>lacks integrity and empathy, like he feels nothing legal.

0:26:02.359 --> 0:26:05.119
<v Speaker 3>Don't make it just so it wasn't enough that.

0:26:05.119 --> 0:26:08.320
<v Speaker 2>He got one over on an entire nation. He decided

0:26:08.359 --> 0:26:11.639
<v Speaker 2>to celebrate this. He threw a I won in court

0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:15.359
<v Speaker 2>party in Monaco, his second home, and it was like

0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:18.280
<v Speaker 2>a who's who of late nineties, early two thousand.

0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:20.919
<v Speaker 3>Blisters okay, pink, oh wow, Macy.

0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:23.320
<v Speaker 2>Gray, Oh, Jean Claude.

0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:25.560
<v Speaker 3>Van Dam, Macy Gray with the funny voice, Macy Yeah.

0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:27.800
<v Speaker 2>And like think about the timing of it. It's like

0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:31.800
<v Speaker 2>she's a little bit cuckoo, so, which you know, God

0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:34.800
<v Speaker 2>bless So they're all there in describing the party, this

0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:36.800
<v Speaker 2>is how he said, quote it all got a bit

0:26:36.840 --> 0:26:39.800
<v Speaker 2>out of hand. We all started smashing plates and throwing

0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:43.320
<v Speaker 2>chairs in the fire. What I'm expanding into private equities.

0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:45.920
<v Speaker 2>Any parties I throw now will be private ones. I'm

0:26:45.920 --> 0:26:47.680
<v Speaker 2>discovering my serious side.

0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:50.360
<v Speaker 3>I think my joker origin story would be attending one

0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:52.720
<v Speaker 3>of his parties. I think I would lose it.

0:26:53.080 --> 0:26:53.240
<v Speaker 4>Well.

0:26:53.280 --> 0:26:57.479
<v Speaker 2>The lawyer representing the Sierra Leone government quote, the fraud

0:26:57.480 --> 0:26:59.680
<v Speaker 2>element has been dropped and it is part of the

0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:03.040
<v Speaker 2>But as far as we're concern the case is very

0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:05.719
<v Speaker 2>much alive. It is premature for him to be blowing

0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:06.639
<v Speaker 2>his trumpet about it.

0:27:06.920 --> 0:27:07.640
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah.

0:27:08.400 --> 0:27:11.280
<v Speaker 2>They claimed breach a contract against him, and this was

0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:15.280
<v Speaker 2>because he didn't find suitable alternative accommodations for the High Commission,

0:27:15.320 --> 0:27:18.720
<v Speaker 2>like he said, an so without thirty three Portland Place,

0:27:19.080 --> 0:27:22.679
<v Speaker 2>they relocated to an office above a really busy tube

0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:27.920
<v Speaker 2>station and it was just, you know, horrible. He settled

0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:30.840
<v Speaker 2>out of court with the government for an undisclosed sum,

0:27:31.320 --> 0:27:33.920
<v Speaker 2>and the British government offered to buy a new building

0:27:34.080 --> 0:27:38.280
<v Speaker 2>for Sierra Leone's High Commission. Davenport gets left with the

0:27:38.320 --> 0:27:41.000
<v Speaker 2>remainder of the lease and he acquired the whole thing

0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:45.000
<v Speaker 2>in two thousand and five. So yeah, and he made

0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:45.520
<v Speaker 2>the most of it.

0:27:45.640 --> 0:27:45.840
<v Speaker 3>Right.

0:27:46.600 --> 0:27:49.760
<v Speaker 2>He's got thirty three Portland place. He throws parties there,

0:27:49.920 --> 0:27:52.960
<v Speaker 2>He hosts fashion shoots and he would lend it out

0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:57.520
<v Speaker 2>for filming. The parties there were legendary. Boy George had

0:27:57.560 --> 0:28:00.280
<v Speaker 2>his fortieth birthday party there in two thousand and one. Okay,

0:28:01.040 --> 0:28:04.560
<v Speaker 2>the Rothschild family rented it out for a soire attended

0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:07.320
<v Speaker 2>by Princess William and Harry. In two thousand and five.

0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:08.720
<v Speaker 3>Some of my favorite people.

0:28:09.400 --> 0:28:12.639
<v Speaker 2>Celebrities flocked to the place. Friend of the Show, Paris Hilton.

0:28:12.760 --> 0:28:16.160
<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, chare Naomi Campbell, Hugh Grant.

0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:18.160
<v Speaker 3>We got to do a Naomi Campbell story.

0:28:18.280 --> 0:28:23.399
<v Speaker 2>Yea, we really do. King Boss, Ronnie Wood, Vivian Westwood, Cure, Knightley. Huh.

0:28:23.440 --> 0:28:25.240
<v Speaker 2>He also rented out the space.

0:28:25.240 --> 0:28:27.520
<v Speaker 3>Oh Rod Stewart would imagine, I'm just.

0:28:27.560 --> 0:28:30.119
<v Speaker 2>Kicking soccer balls all over the place. He would. He

0:28:30.200 --> 0:28:32.640
<v Speaker 2>rented the space out for pole dancing lessons.

0:28:33.040 --> 0:28:34.359
<v Speaker 3>The pink this is the pink effect.

0:28:34.480 --> 0:28:36.359
<v Speaker 2>That's the total pink effect. They're all doing like that

0:28:36.480 --> 0:28:38.960
<v Speaker 2>scarf work on the fabric.

0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:40.520
<v Speaker 3>You're dropping down out of the sky.

0:28:40.600 --> 0:28:44.240
<v Speaker 2>On a rope amy winehouse. Yeah, she shot her rehab

0:28:44.320 --> 0:28:46.000
<v Speaker 2>video at the property.

0:28:45.680 --> 0:28:49.200
<v Speaker 3>Oh amy, oh Amy, no no no.

0:28:50.000 --> 0:28:53.400
<v Speaker 2>It was used as Lionel Log's clinic in the movie

0:28:53.440 --> 0:28:54.200
<v Speaker 2>The King Speech.

0:28:54.720 --> 0:28:55.320
<v Speaker 3>Ah.

0:28:55.360 --> 0:28:57.640
<v Speaker 2>And then there was the steamy stuff. I promised you

0:28:57.800 --> 0:29:00.200
<v Speaker 2>a lot of porn was filled.

0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:01.040
<v Speaker 3>Them there, of course.

0:29:01.160 --> 0:29:05.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. And then he threw these VIP masked orgies there.

0:29:05.920 --> 0:29:06.640
<v Speaker 3>Oh god, it.

0:29:06.600 --> 0:29:10.280
<v Speaker 2>Cost you ninety quid to get in. And apparently these

0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:13.840
<v Speaker 2>were really popular with like celebs and royals because everyone

0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:15.560
<v Speaker 2>had to be masked up and not in like a

0:29:15.720 --> 0:29:19.240
<v Speaker 2>COVID stop the spread, k kN ninety five totally eyes

0:29:19.280 --> 0:29:22.560
<v Speaker 2>wide shut, freaky business. I was I'm kind of hoping

0:29:22.600 --> 0:29:25.600
<v Speaker 2>that some of them wore the scarier Venetian masks, the

0:29:26.440 --> 0:29:28.800
<v Speaker 2>plague doctors, or some of them, like just the regular

0:29:28.840 --> 0:29:30.800
<v Speaker 2>when you're in Venice and you see him like that's

0:29:31.080 --> 0:29:32.600
<v Speaker 2>that's really disturbing the one day.

0:29:32.600 --> 0:29:34.320
<v Speaker 3>Some of them look like not like the like the

0:29:34.360 --> 0:29:36.360
<v Speaker 3>opera glass where you're holding the stick that keeps the

0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:37.920
<v Speaker 3>mask by your eyes, and I mean those, but some

0:29:38.000 --> 0:29:40.800
<v Speaker 3>of the black ones, it's like leather and the slits.

0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:42.600
<v Speaker 2>Terrifying.

0:29:42.600 --> 0:29:43.400
<v Speaker 3>Are you here to kill me?

0:29:43.560 --> 0:29:45.600
<v Speaker 2>I just hope that that's what they wore to the orgies.

0:29:45.760 --> 0:29:50.400
<v Speaker 2>You like that freaks and so anyway, or you know

0:29:50.400 --> 0:29:53.240
<v Speaker 2>what they could wear is my old man latex mask.

0:29:53.440 --> 0:29:55.240
<v Speaker 3>That would be good and I told.

0:29:55.040 --> 0:29:57.920
<v Speaker 2>You about it. It looks so real and it would be

0:29:58.000 --> 0:30:00.520
<v Speaker 2>amazing in an orgy, he said, wear am at. Yeah,

0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:04.160
<v Speaker 2>maybe maybe the sloths dancers can wear, but like I

0:30:04.480 --> 0:30:07.440
<v Speaker 2>may wear it next time we record. Here's the problem.

0:30:07.480 --> 0:30:09.160
<v Speaker 2>It smells like bad chemicals.

0:30:09.800 --> 0:30:11.280
<v Speaker 3>Trying to wear chemicals.

0:30:12.120 --> 0:30:14.120
<v Speaker 2>It's like three years four years old and is still

0:30:14.120 --> 0:30:18.680
<v Speaker 2>off gassing anyway, orgies. So the general manager of the property,

0:30:18.720 --> 0:30:22.200
<v Speaker 2>Frederick Porter, he said, when he's talking about filming the

0:30:22.280 --> 0:30:25.760
<v Speaker 2>King's speech quote, everyone in the film industry knows what

0:30:25.840 --> 0:30:28.440
<v Speaker 2>goes on in there. Everybody would like to be at

0:30:28.440 --> 0:30:31.120
<v Speaker 2>one of those parties. They're all very well run events.

0:30:31.240 --> 0:30:34.400
<v Speaker 2>The people who are invited are all like minded. There

0:30:34.400 --> 0:30:37.040
<v Speaker 2>were no sex parties while filming was going on. Of course,

0:30:37.080 --> 0:30:41.440
<v Speaker 2>when he's talking about King Speed, an anonymous local said, quote,

0:30:41.680 --> 0:30:45.120
<v Speaker 2>the room where Colin Firth has all his elocution lessons

0:30:45.480 --> 0:30:49.640
<v Speaker 2>is exactly the same room where sex parties and porn

0:30:49.720 --> 0:30:53.040
<v Speaker 2>discos have been held. For such a royal film. It

0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:55.680
<v Speaker 2>certainly isn't a very regal setting.

0:30:56.120 --> 0:30:57.960
<v Speaker 3>I need to tell them about Hollywood.

0:30:57.520 --> 0:30:58.600
<v Speaker 2>Business Thorn discos.

0:30:58.640 --> 0:31:01.640
<v Speaker 3>Did do you also know about the royals?

0:31:01.640 --> 0:31:04.840
<v Speaker 2>Because you're the ones there? It's it is a very

0:31:04.880 --> 0:31:05.520
<v Speaker 2>regal setting.

0:31:05.560 --> 0:31:07.920
<v Speaker 3>Yes, probably the most regal setting there could be.

0:31:08.080 --> 0:31:11.640
<v Speaker 2>So Davenport, he puts it this way. Quote you can

0:31:11.680 --> 0:31:14.959
<v Speaker 2>call me flamboyant and an opportunist, and I suppose I

0:31:15.000 --> 0:31:17.320
<v Speaker 2>am a bit flash, but I'm trying to create an

0:31:17.360 --> 0:31:21.240
<v Speaker 2>image of someone who can deliver on an international scale.

0:31:21.560 --> 0:31:24.560
<v Speaker 2>People in Hong Kong and China are going to expect

0:31:24.600 --> 0:31:27.160
<v Speaker 2>you to have some kind of presence. So when they

0:31:27.160 --> 0:31:29.240
<v Speaker 2>go to my website and they see my title and

0:31:29.280 --> 0:31:31.880
<v Speaker 2>the pictures of all the celebrities who have genuinely been

0:31:31.960 --> 0:31:33.920
<v Speaker 2>to my house and said hi to me, they're going

0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:34.840
<v Speaker 2>to take me seriously.

0:31:36.000 --> 0:31:39.120
<v Speaker 3>Said hi to me. These other people take me seriously.

0:31:39.320 --> 0:31:42.000
<v Speaker 2>I want to be taken seriously because I saw tyn

0:31:42.120 --> 0:31:47.760
<v Speaker 2>Daily in person at a distance that thank you Westminster

0:31:48.040 --> 0:31:52.040
<v Speaker 2>City Council. They fought him over and over about noise

0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:55.320
<v Speaker 2>violations and disturbing the peace at thirty three Portland Place.

0:31:55.600 --> 0:31:56.680
<v Speaker 3>The mons getting too loud.

0:31:56.960 --> 0:31:59.520
<v Speaker 2>Oh God. At one point they took him to High

0:31:59.520 --> 0:32:03.760
<v Speaker 2>Court from me using the property. Why well, thank you

0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:07.280
<v Speaker 2>for asking. Well, planning officers showed up at the mansion

0:32:07.400 --> 0:32:10.640
<v Speaker 2>on December ninth, two thousand and nine, and you know what,

0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:16.360
<v Speaker 2>let's go there with them. Okay, Zarin, close eyes. I

0:32:16.400 --> 0:32:20.640
<v Speaker 2>want you to picture it. You are a Westminster City

0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:25.560
<v Speaker 2>Council planning officer. You're a proper fellow, shine shoes, crisp shirt.

0:32:25.960 --> 0:32:28.880
<v Speaker 2>You take yourself and your job and your duties seriously.

0:32:29.040 --> 0:32:32.760
<v Speaker 2>Right here, you've been dispatched to thirty three Portland Place.

0:32:32.920 --> 0:32:37.360
<v Speaker 2>It's a notorious address in your office. So many complaints

0:32:37.400 --> 0:32:40.160
<v Speaker 2>have been filed. The place is a headache. But it's

0:32:40.200 --> 0:32:43.959
<v Speaker 2>also notorious because you've heard all about the celebrities and

0:32:44.000 --> 0:32:46.880
<v Speaker 2>the orgies, and you've always kind of hoped to be

0:32:46.960 --> 0:32:50.200
<v Speaker 2>sent out to the location someday. That day is today's erin.

0:32:51.040 --> 0:32:53.400
<v Speaker 2>You and two other officers stand at the front door

0:32:53.440 --> 0:32:56.720
<v Speaker 2>of thirty three Portland Place. It's a brick, sandstone affair.

0:32:57.360 --> 0:33:00.200
<v Speaker 2>You can hear the thumping of club music, laughter and

0:33:00.240 --> 0:33:04.000
<v Speaker 2>the occasional drunken whoop and scream of delight coming from inside.

0:33:04.720 --> 0:33:07.120
<v Speaker 2>You knock on the front door, hoping someone will hear it.

0:33:07.680 --> 0:33:10.360
<v Speaker 2>You peer down over the iron railings into the basement

0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:14.440
<v Speaker 2>entrance area below. You expect to see discarded panties or something,

0:33:14.520 --> 0:33:17.080
<v Speaker 2>but its neat as a pin. You knock on the

0:33:17.080 --> 0:33:20.120
<v Speaker 2>glossy black door again, this time opening and slamming the

0:33:20.160 --> 0:33:24.080
<v Speaker 2>mail slot, and hopes that's louder than your pounding fist. Finally,

0:33:24.120 --> 0:33:27.600
<v Speaker 2>a man opens the door. Because it opens the party,

0:33:27.640 --> 0:33:30.240
<v Speaker 2>noise becomes a little bit clearer, but you can still

0:33:30.280 --> 0:33:32.320
<v Speaker 2>tell that it's coming from one of the lower floors.

0:33:32.680 --> 0:33:35.880
<v Speaker 2>This place has five stories. He's holding a stack of

0:33:35.920 --> 0:33:40.479
<v Speaker 2>what looks like flyers. Ticket, he says in a drawl ticket.

0:33:40.560 --> 0:33:44.360
<v Speaker 2>You respond, yeah, you got a ticket? Uh no, You

0:33:44.400 --> 0:33:47.680
<v Speaker 2>tell him you get one online six quick fifty. He

0:33:47.760 --> 0:33:50.800
<v Speaker 2>hands you a flyer. You pull out your council officer

0:33:50.840 --> 0:33:53.760
<v Speaker 2>ID and tell him that's your ticket. The other officers

0:33:53.800 --> 0:33:57.120
<v Speaker 2>follow suit. You all feel so poor now. The man

0:33:57.160 --> 0:33:59.600
<v Speaker 2>steps aside, and you see people milling about all manner

0:33:59.600 --> 0:34:02.960
<v Speaker 2>of designer duds. This is a commercial endeavor, not a

0:34:03.000 --> 0:34:06.400
<v Speaker 2>private party and a private residence. You're positive this is

0:34:06.440 --> 0:34:08.719
<v Speaker 2>exactly what the neighbors and the council are trying to

0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:12.279
<v Speaker 2>put an end to. You and the other officers head downstairs.

0:34:12.320 --> 0:34:14.839
<v Speaker 2>Following the music, you push through the crowd to get

0:34:14.840 --> 0:34:17.720
<v Speaker 2>to what looks like the main attraction. There's a swimming

0:34:17.760 --> 0:34:20.960
<v Speaker 2>pool the length of a long room. Along one wall

0:34:21.000 --> 0:34:25.040
<v Speaker 2>are a series of alcoves containing conversation pits, low sectionals

0:34:25.080 --> 0:34:29.440
<v Speaker 2>surrounding low coffee tables. The lights are low too, but

0:34:29.560 --> 0:34:31.720
<v Speaker 2>you can see everything, and you can see the pool

0:34:31.760 --> 0:34:35.840
<v Speaker 2>water is a dark amber. That's a lot of pea.

0:34:35.920 --> 0:34:39.719
<v Speaker 2>Surely this is a health code violation. You push past

0:34:39.800 --> 0:34:42.240
<v Speaker 2>a camera crew and you see someone dunk a glass

0:34:42.239 --> 0:34:45.160
<v Speaker 2>into the pool water and take a long sipo. You

0:34:45.160 --> 0:34:48.320
<v Speaker 2>can smell the waves of alcohol coming off the pool.

0:34:48.560 --> 0:34:52.360
<v Speaker 2>That's not pe The pool is filled with cavasia. What

0:34:52.840 --> 0:34:57.360
<v Speaker 2>it's filled with one thousand liters of kooniak. You've seen enough.

0:34:57.640 --> 0:34:59.640
<v Speaker 2>You and the other officers push back out through the

0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:02.200
<v Speaker 2>party and step out into the cool air of Portland Place.

0:35:02.600 --> 0:35:06.279
<v Speaker 2>You have to put a stop to this, so the

0:35:06.400 --> 0:35:09.960
<v Speaker 2>council they got an enforcement notice on Davenport. He was

0:35:09.960 --> 0:35:12.040
<v Speaker 2>found to have breached it in two thousand and six

0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:14.960
<v Speaker 2>and as a result, the High Court judge issued a

0:35:15.000 --> 0:35:17.399
<v Speaker 2>permanent ban on the use of the house for non

0:35:17.480 --> 0:35:21.920
<v Speaker 2>residential purposes. In March of twenty eleven, Davenport asked a

0:35:21.960 --> 0:35:25.040
<v Speaker 2>court of appeal to overturn the ruling, and the next

0:35:25.080 --> 0:35:28.720
<v Speaker 2>month he lost that appeal. Oh so with that in mind,

0:35:29.080 --> 0:35:31.600
<v Speaker 2>let's take a break and listen to the dulcet tones

0:35:31.600 --> 0:35:34.360
<v Speaker 2>of a seemingly endless series of ads. And when we

0:35:34.440 --> 0:35:37.120
<v Speaker 2>come back, I'll let you in on fast Eddie's big

0:35:37.160 --> 0:36:02.840
<v Speaker 2>con right, Yo, Edward ormis sharing to Davenport, Edward Davenport,

0:36:03.400 --> 0:36:07.200
<v Speaker 2>steady Lord d Lord Edward Lord Eddie. He threw parties,

0:36:07.920 --> 0:36:10.680
<v Speaker 2>he cheated the country of Sierra Leona out of their embassy,

0:36:11.080 --> 0:36:14.719
<v Speaker 2>and then he went straight up con classic con. So

0:36:14.760 --> 0:36:16.680
<v Speaker 2>from two thousand and seven to two thousand and nine

0:36:16.719 --> 0:36:20.480
<v Speaker 2>he ran a fake finance company called Gresham Gresham. You

0:36:20.520 --> 0:36:24.800
<v Speaker 2>know there's a legitimate wealth management advisory firm called Gresham Financial.

0:36:24.920 --> 0:36:26.440
<v Speaker 3>I was wondering, like, that's not familiar.

0:36:26.520 --> 0:36:28.279
<v Speaker 2>It sounds good. Well, that's what that was his goal.

0:36:28.600 --> 0:36:31.719
<v Speaker 2>He was going, it's not the same thing. He purposely

0:36:31.840 --> 0:36:35.360
<v Speaker 2>wanted that confusion. So he said that they'd been trading

0:36:35.400 --> 0:36:37.839
<v Speaker 2>since nineteen fifty eight, but it was just a shell

0:36:37.920 --> 0:36:40.480
<v Speaker 2>company that he bought and renamed in two thousand and.

0:36:40.400 --> 0:36:43.440
<v Speaker 3>Five that had been opened in nineteen fifty eight or something.

0:36:43.480 --> 0:36:46.960
<v Speaker 2>Oh, he he pulled that out of you know, all

0:36:47.000 --> 0:36:47.520
<v Speaker 2>sorts of stuff.

0:36:47.560 --> 0:36:48.520
<v Speaker 3>I thought it was one of the things where you

0:36:48.520 --> 0:36:50.520
<v Speaker 3>bought an old company and said we've been doing this

0:36:50.560 --> 0:36:51.160
<v Speaker 3>since nineteen.

0:36:51.600 --> 0:36:54.040
<v Speaker 2>So he pulled it out of his tutor. Yes, so

0:36:54.080 --> 0:36:58.480
<v Speaker 2>they had like fake account information brochures. He put ads

0:36:58.600 --> 0:37:02.759
<v Speaker 2>in the Financial Times and other newspapers to give it

0:37:02.840 --> 0:37:08.440
<v Speaker 2>credibility question and then he he used it using an alias.

0:37:08.440 --> 0:37:09.359
<v Speaker 2>He never put his name.

0:37:09.440 --> 0:37:10.600
<v Speaker 3>Oh once again. Yeah, of course.

0:37:10.800 --> 0:37:16.640
<v Speaker 2>So Gresham said that they would provide financing for projects

0:37:16.640 --> 0:37:20.839
<v Speaker 2>that like traditional banks weren't willing to back mavericks, risk

0:37:20.920 --> 0:37:24.479
<v Speaker 2>takers care for you. Yeah, so if a real bank

0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:27.399
<v Speaker 2>is like you're a little bit shape, come on this way.

0:37:27.920 --> 0:37:31.120
<v Speaker 2>So the investment requests they come rolling in. Davenport and

0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:36.840
<v Speaker 2>his co conspirators, Borge Anderson and Peter Riley. They said,

0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:40.880
<v Speaker 2>we are pledging billions in funds for all these projects.

0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:44.800
<v Speaker 2>Your projects are fantastic unders you deserve all the money.

0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:46.880
<v Speaker 2>So it's they got a bunch of people a million

0:37:46.920 --> 0:37:51.000
<v Speaker 2>for you, ten million for you pledged. Problem is, the

0:37:51.040 --> 0:37:54.480
<v Speaker 2>loans were never advanced because there weren't the billions.

0:37:54.600 --> 0:37:55.640
<v Speaker 3>But they were pledged.

0:37:56.360 --> 0:37:59.399
<v Speaker 2>I made a pledge, I made a solid promise. They

0:37:59.440 --> 0:38:01.480
<v Speaker 2>made their money because here they have no money to

0:38:01.520 --> 0:38:04.760
<v Speaker 2>give out, or are they making money because these people

0:38:04.800 --> 0:38:09.000
<v Speaker 2>are begging for money. They charged the businesses quote unquote

0:38:09.000 --> 0:38:14.279
<v Speaker 2>deposits and fees for quote verification, and fees for a

0:38:14.440 --> 0:38:18.400
<v Speaker 2>loan guarantee, and then another due diligence.

0:38:17.880 --> 0:38:19.920
<v Speaker 3>Cause classic fraud. I want to give you money, but

0:38:19.960 --> 0:38:20.560
<v Speaker 3>I just need to do a.

0:38:20.560 --> 0:38:24.000
<v Speaker 2>Couple of tests. Tens of thousands here, maybe fifty thousands there.

0:38:24.480 --> 0:38:29.560
<v Speaker 2>The businesses, these are victims. They they paid the deposits

0:38:29.560 --> 0:38:33.120
<v Speaker 2>and the advance fees, the due diligences of business, and

0:38:33.200 --> 0:38:36.040
<v Speaker 2>then Davenport and his little minions they kept it all

0:38:36.480 --> 0:38:40.439
<v Speaker 2>with nothing in return. So Gresham, the business is about

0:38:40.480 --> 0:38:44.320
<v Speaker 2>to be exposed. So Davenport closes up shop, starts another

0:38:44.400 --> 0:38:47.400
<v Speaker 2>fake finance company, and this one he calls cutting in company,

0:38:47.840 --> 0:38:51.120
<v Speaker 2>as in what he does right, cutting and running the

0:38:51.200 --> 0:38:56.239
<v Speaker 2>serious fraud off Cutting and SFO like the airport, but

0:38:56.320 --> 0:39:00.400
<v Speaker 2>not an airport serious fraud. Okay, they're like, you know,

0:39:00.760 --> 0:39:05.760
<v Speaker 2>buddies with the flying squad. I almost said the flying then.

0:39:07.560 --> 0:39:07.840
<v Speaker 3>Flying.

0:39:08.160 --> 0:39:11.360
<v Speaker 2>So the SFO they're looking into ten cases of people

0:39:11.360 --> 0:39:14.560
<v Speaker 2>who were offered billions in loans by Gresham, just the

0:39:14.600 --> 0:39:16.520
<v Speaker 2>tip of the iceberg. So it's just we're taking the

0:39:16.560 --> 0:39:19.240
<v Speaker 2>top ten of these. That's a costly tip, the ten biggest.

0:39:19.680 --> 0:39:24.280
<v Speaker 2>These ten were promised loans totaling five hundred million pounds,

0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:27.640
<v Speaker 2>and then Davenport and the co conspirators they promised to

0:39:27.719 --> 0:39:32.279
<v Speaker 2>finance more than fifty commercial loans. A lot of the

0:39:32.320 --> 0:39:35.920
<v Speaker 2>victims went bankrupt. I imagine they had their professional reputations

0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:37.640
<v Speaker 2>absolutely destroyed.

0:39:37.200 --> 0:39:40.279
<v Speaker 3>Totally no jobs. I imagine there were some divorces of

0:39:40.360 --> 0:39:40.920
<v Speaker 3>the some.

0:39:40.920 --> 0:39:45.000
<v Speaker 2>People had full breakdown. Yeah, they ruined lives. Elizabeth Emanuel

0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:48.120
<v Speaker 2>a fifty eight year old fashion designer. She is the

0:39:48.160 --> 0:39:54.240
<v Speaker 2>one who created Princess Die's wedding dress, that big flush.

0:39:54.360 --> 0:39:55.320
<v Speaker 3>I pretend like I know you're.

0:39:55.160 --> 0:39:57.600
<v Speaker 2>Talking at Remember it was like huge ruffles.

0:39:57.719 --> 0:40:01.040
<v Speaker 3>I don't story book. I know that she has she's

0:40:01.040 --> 0:40:03.560
<v Speaker 3>got like the big shoulders. I don't know that princess style.

0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:07.000
<v Speaker 2>She was one of Gresham's victims. Oh no, she needed

0:40:07.120 --> 0:40:10.799
<v Speaker 2>a million pound investment for her company and all she

0:40:10.880 --> 0:40:15.120
<v Speaker 2>had left was five thousand pounds to her name, some total.

0:40:15.840 --> 0:40:18.760
<v Speaker 2>So she puts up sixty five percent of her company

0:40:19.080 --> 0:40:22.440
<v Speaker 2>in exchange for the loan. You know, that's my collateral.

0:40:22.880 --> 0:40:25.080
<v Speaker 2>Gresham was like, but you know what, I need the

0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:27.560
<v Speaker 2>due diligence money on this, and it's going to cost

0:40:27.560 --> 0:40:30.359
<v Speaker 2>you twenty thousand pounds before we can carry out.

0:40:30.600 --> 0:40:31.120
<v Speaker 3>Has five?

0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:33.799
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she only has five. She had lost the right

0:40:33.880 --> 0:40:35.799
<v Speaker 2>to trade under her own name because she had a

0:40:35.840 --> 0:40:39.120
<v Speaker 2>falling out with her business partner, and so if she

0:40:39.160 --> 0:40:41.919
<v Speaker 2>could get the funding, she could keep the company, keep

0:40:41.920 --> 0:40:47.160
<v Speaker 2>her livelihood, keep the legacy of Diana's wedding dress. So

0:40:47.280 --> 0:40:50.160
<v Speaker 2>she handed over the last five thousand pounds to her name,

0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:53.960
<v Speaker 2>hoping that that would be enough due diligence.

0:40:53.480 --> 0:40:56.520
<v Speaker 3>Money of the twenty thousand he's waiting for uh huh ok.

0:40:56.960 --> 0:41:00.480
<v Speaker 2>So he strings her along. Ye, I'm going to and

0:41:00.480 --> 0:41:02.120
<v Speaker 2>then he pulls out of the deal and he kept

0:41:02.120 --> 0:41:06.120
<v Speaker 2>the five. Oh yeah yeah, But SFO was watching and

0:41:06.160 --> 0:41:08.759
<v Speaker 2>building a case, and he was arrested and.

0:41:08.760 --> 0:41:10.280
<v Speaker 3>Charged with fraud. Oh.

0:41:10.320 --> 0:41:14.600
<v Speaker 2>Prosecutor Simon Mayo said to the court, quote to outward appearances,

0:41:14.680 --> 0:41:18.720
<v Speaker 2>it was long established, wealthy and prestigious. That image, however,

0:41:18.880 --> 0:41:23.640
<v Speaker 2>deliberately cultivated by these defendants, was entirely false. In truth,

0:41:23.640 --> 0:41:25.640
<v Speaker 2>it was a company which had only been set up

0:41:25.680 --> 0:41:28.680
<v Speaker 2>by Edward Davenport in late two thousand and five. It

0:41:28.760 --> 0:41:33.400
<v Speaker 2>was essentially worthless. Its only business was fraud. Davenport was

0:41:33.440 --> 0:41:37.800
<v Speaker 2>Gresham's ring master and guiding light. He avoided, wherever possible,

0:41:37.880 --> 0:41:41.160
<v Speaker 2>dirtying his hands through direct engagement with victims, and even

0:41:41.200 --> 0:41:44.239
<v Speaker 2>resorted to using a false name, James Stewart, to keep

0:41:44.239 --> 0:41:45.360
<v Speaker 2>his real name secret.

0:41:45.640 --> 0:41:47.840
<v Speaker 3>James Stewart doesn't like the King, the bonny King, or

0:41:47.920 --> 0:41:50.120
<v Speaker 3>Jimmy Yeah, or Jimmy Steart. Oh yeah, there's that too.

0:41:50.640 --> 0:41:54.480
<v Speaker 2>So on October fifth, twenty eleven, he's convicted for conspiracy

0:41:54.520 --> 0:41:58.200
<v Speaker 2>to defraud and sentenced to seven years eight months in jail.

0:41:58.800 --> 0:42:03.360
<v Speaker 2>Peter Riley, He's guilty the same charges, same sentence. Borge Anderson,

0:42:03.800 --> 0:42:08.840
<v Speaker 2>He's convicted on conspiracy charges. And so the woman Emmanuel

0:42:08.840 --> 0:42:09.440
<v Speaker 2>the dress.

0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:11.640
<v Speaker 3>Base suggested Diana's dressmaker quote.

0:42:12.160 --> 0:42:14.760
<v Speaker 2>It caused a lot of problems for me in my business,

0:42:15.000 --> 0:42:17.600
<v Speaker 2>not just the money, but keeping me hanging on when

0:42:17.640 --> 0:42:19.280
<v Speaker 2>I could have been looking for other investors.

0:42:19.360 --> 0:42:20.880
<v Speaker 3>Exactly, I was just a little.

0:42:20.680 --> 0:42:23.840
<v Speaker 2>Struggling company, and to drag away my last five thousand

0:42:23.880 --> 0:42:27.760
<v Speaker 2>pounds is only something a very mean and horrible person

0:42:27.800 --> 0:42:30.200
<v Speaker 2>would do. I'm thrilled he has gone down.

0:42:30.719 --> 0:42:31.279
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Yeah.

0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:36.000
<v Speaker 2>So January eleventh, twenty fourteen, forty seven year old fast

0:42:36.160 --> 0:42:37.919
<v Speaker 2>Eddy gave an interview too.

0:42:39.920 --> 0:42:40.439
<v Speaker 3>Daily Mail.

0:42:40.520 --> 0:42:44.000
<v Speaker 2>There it is from his bed at Saint George's Hospital

0:42:44.080 --> 0:42:46.520
<v Speaker 2>in South London, which, by the way, look at us

0:42:46.640 --> 0:42:49.840
<v Speaker 2>like we have so much serendipity in our weeks lately,

0:42:50.040 --> 0:42:52.080
<v Speaker 2>like compendiums and now British.

0:42:51.680 --> 0:42:53.600
<v Speaker 3>Anyway, that's interesting, so Daily Mail.

0:42:53.760 --> 0:42:56.040
<v Speaker 2>This is what he tells. A Daily Mail quote. I

0:42:56.239 --> 0:42:58.680
<v Speaker 2>was diagnosed with a defective kidney when I was about

0:42:58.760 --> 0:43:01.960
<v Speaker 2>fifteen and had my first transplant about fifteen years ago.

0:43:02.400 --> 0:43:04.640
<v Speaker 2>I never told anyone about it as it didn't really

0:43:04.680 --> 0:43:07.200
<v Speaker 2>fit in with my image. But over the past few

0:43:07.280 --> 0:43:11.040
<v Speaker 2>years it became apparent that the kidney was not working anymore.

0:43:11.520 --> 0:43:13.719
<v Speaker 2>I was in prison and feeling ill. I'd been on

0:43:13.800 --> 0:43:17.000
<v Speaker 2>the NHS donor list for another transplant for ages, and

0:43:17.120 --> 0:43:19.640
<v Speaker 2>then my name came up just before Christmas. I think

0:43:19.719 --> 0:43:22.840
<v Speaker 2>somebody had a tragic accident and lost their life. Before that,

0:43:23.360 --> 0:43:26.239
<v Speaker 2>I was traveling to Saint George's, chained up with three

0:43:26.320 --> 0:43:29.239
<v Speaker 2>prison officers three times a week for dialysis. It was

0:43:29.280 --> 0:43:30.719
<v Speaker 2>an ordeal for them and me.

0:43:32.840 --> 0:43:35.640
<v Speaker 3>Okay, yeah, so he's trying to now get sympathy by

0:43:35.800 --> 0:43:38.640
<v Speaker 3>pretending to be or not pretending, but at least letting

0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:40.960
<v Speaker 3>it be known that he has suffered through something.

0:43:41.120 --> 0:43:43.600
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm really fascinated with him saying that it didn't

0:43:43.760 --> 0:43:47.160
<v Speaker 2>match his image. Yes, that's like, that's a good insight.

0:43:47.000 --> 0:43:49.120
<v Speaker 3>You know in his images. Somebody who would buy one

0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:51.200
<v Speaker 3>of those kidneys that was taken out of someone against

0:43:51.200 --> 0:43:53.040
<v Speaker 3>their will and they were left in a motel tub

0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:54.760
<v Speaker 3>of ice, that's what images.

0:43:56.719 --> 0:43:58.880
<v Speaker 2>But it wouldn't have like the right tag on it.

0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:01.040
<v Speaker 2>Although I love that he's like, I might get it.

0:44:01.120 --> 0:44:06.520
<v Speaker 2>Someone died a tragic accident. So he almost received a

0:44:06.560 --> 0:44:13.400
<v Speaker 2>transplant twice, but the operations were canceled. With these operation

0:44:13.600 --> 0:44:16.440
<v Speaker 2>cancelations and like he had a bad case of pneumonia,

0:44:16.600 --> 0:44:20.440
<v Speaker 2>he had complications involving his liver. He did eventually receive

0:44:20.480 --> 0:44:23.920
<v Speaker 2>another transplant, and then he needed ongoing treatment afterwards. So

0:44:24.080 --> 0:44:27.080
<v Speaker 2>with that in mind, his lawyers asked the court to

0:44:27.160 --> 0:44:30.480
<v Speaker 2>show mercy. They said his medical condition meant that he

0:44:30.920 --> 0:44:33.960
<v Speaker 2>had to serve his time in more punishing conditions than

0:44:34.000 --> 0:44:38.800
<v Speaker 2>he would otherwise have done. So the jig him released

0:44:38.840 --> 0:44:42.600
<v Speaker 2>early and he was freed May of twenty fourteen because

0:44:42.600 --> 0:44:42.879
<v Speaker 2>he has.

0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:45.680
<v Speaker 3>Like immune suppressive drugs for the transplant, Like, what's the

0:44:45.760 --> 0:44:46.400
<v Speaker 3>deal when.

0:44:46.280 --> 0:44:49.080
<v Speaker 2>He gets out. He is far from an invalid who

0:44:49.120 --> 0:44:50.000
<v Speaker 2>wanted to shy away from it.

0:44:50.440 --> 0:44:51.240
<v Speaker 3>His image was fine.

0:44:51.280 --> 0:44:53.920
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, he got involved in property deals with a

0:44:54.040 --> 0:44:56.239
<v Speaker 2>Chinese business partner. He made it known that he wanted

0:44:56.280 --> 0:44:58.200
<v Speaker 2>to go like buy a film studio.

0:44:58.880 --> 0:45:01.640
<v Speaker 3>And one of his right what his money was.

0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:02.719
<v Speaker 2>The government wanted it.

0:45:03.480 --> 0:45:04.359
<v Speaker 3>I want it for them.

0:45:04.600 --> 0:45:10.120
<v Speaker 2>They kicked off confiscation proceedings those June nineteenth, twenty thirteen.

0:45:10.480 --> 0:45:13.680
<v Speaker 2>He's still locked up when that all started. So, all told,

0:45:13.920 --> 0:45:17.399
<v Speaker 2>through all of his schemes, he made about thirty four

0:45:17.480 --> 0:45:18.960
<v Speaker 2>point five million pounds.

0:45:19.080 --> 0:45:20.800
<v Speaker 3>Oh wow, yeah, it's not about empires.

0:45:20.880 --> 0:45:25.000
<v Speaker 2>So he argued though that through his lawyers, because he's

0:45:25.040 --> 0:45:28.000
<v Speaker 2>in jail, that he should only have to repay eight million.

0:45:28.600 --> 0:45:30.800
<v Speaker 2>What he said, that's all he really got from it,

0:45:30.840 --> 0:45:33.600
<v Speaker 2>and then there's thirty three Portland place. Yes, so the

0:45:33.680 --> 0:45:36.160
<v Speaker 2>government was like, you got that through fraud, we want it.

0:45:37.400 --> 0:45:40.160
<v Speaker 2>By October twenty fifteen, he's out of prison and he's

0:45:40.200 --> 0:45:42.920
<v Speaker 2>fighting the SFO. He said that he had been the

0:45:43.040 --> 0:45:44.879
<v Speaker 2>victim of double counting by them.

0:45:44.960 --> 0:45:46.759
<v Speaker 3>He's a constantly victim of in its.

0:45:46.680 --> 0:45:50.440
<v Speaker 2>Confiscation and compensation order, so they said they had recovered

0:45:50.520 --> 0:45:53.680
<v Speaker 2>more than thirteen million pounds from Davenport. His lawyer said

0:45:53.719 --> 0:45:55.799
<v Speaker 2>that was way too much and went beyond the order.

0:45:56.440 --> 0:45:59.400
<v Speaker 2>He said Davenport got twelve million from fraud but had

0:45:59.440 --> 0:46:02.480
<v Speaker 2>to pay fourteen teen million. So the court eventually sides

0:46:02.560 --> 0:46:06.120
<v Speaker 2>with fast Eddie on that one. Where is he now?

0:46:06.600 --> 0:46:09.400
<v Speaker 3>Where is he now? Elizabeth? Since he's avoided.

0:46:09.120 --> 0:46:13.200
<v Speaker 2>Justice, He's alive. He has a website, the Davenport Trust.

0:46:13.760 --> 0:46:17.120
<v Speaker 2>It is full of photos with him posing with celebrities.

0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:18.760
<v Speaker 3>And have they aged appropriately? Jagger?

0:46:19.000 --> 0:46:22.200
<v Speaker 2>Well, there are not a lot of reasons. Mick Jagger,

0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:26.200
<v Speaker 2>Jean Claude Van Dam, the American Idol host, guy with

0:46:26.280 --> 0:46:30.000
<v Speaker 2>the nipples, Jerry Hall, Harry.

0:46:29.360 --> 0:46:30.840
<v Speaker 3>Potter is one of the Gallagher brothers.

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<v Speaker 2>No deed Avonte, the Osborne Mom, Captain Picard, Michael Caine,

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<v Speaker 2>who looks like he has no idea who this guy is.

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<v Speaker 3>He probably doesn't.

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<v Speaker 2>Someone with big bangs, Ronnie Woods, Naomi Campbell, a blonde

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<v Speaker 2>who looks like Gwyneth Paltrow and the Project Runway Lady,

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<v Speaker 2>but also like neither of them.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, so the Paltrow yeah, yeah, yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So the pictures they're on a scroll and I was

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<v Speaker 2>just like typing names as they went past. It's a

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<v Speaker 2>fun game. We should try.

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<v Speaker 3>So.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a link to a Vice documentary on his Wesbit

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<v Speaker 2>documentary and it called him the Wolf of the West End.

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<v Speaker 2>He has a link that's too cool for him. He

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<v Speaker 2>has a dead link to the King speech and he

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<v Speaker 2>has like pictures from a Kate Moss photo shoot.

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<v Speaker 3>I you know, like the Underground Rat, Subway Rat.

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<v Speaker 2>Of the I really want to read you his whole biography.

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<v Speaker 2>Please don't it, but I'm just gonna hit you.

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<v Speaker 3>At the opening, Okay, hit me with the highlights.

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<v Speaker 2>Edward Davenport has played host to some of the most

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<v Speaker 2>glamorous and best known faces in the world. A businessman

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<v Speaker 2>renowned for taking chances and living a life full of adventure,

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<v Speaker 2>he is one of Britain's most flamboyant entrepreneurs. A man

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<v Speaker 2>who has earned his own wealth, Davenport enjoys the rewards

0:47:47.120 --> 0:47:50.960
<v Speaker 2>his successes bring, living the high life in London, rubbing

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<v Speaker 2>shoulders with celebrity friends such as David Beckham, Naomi Campbell

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<v Speaker 2>and fifty cent. He has a jet, beautiful homes and

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<v Speaker 2>a election of sports cars which would make any man jealous.

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<v Speaker 2>A regular feature on the social pages and in the

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<v Speaker 2>rich lists of newspapers and magazines, Davenport was recently the

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<v Speaker 2>subject of a profile published by The London Evening Standard,

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<v Speaker 2>which describes him as quote tall, slim and draculine, with

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<v Speaker 2>a penchant for sharp suits and Rolex watches.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you remember Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous with

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<v Speaker 3>Robin Leech? Yeah, remember how he was just like a

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<v Speaker 3>barnacle on the Weltha, Yes, that's what this guy is.

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<v Speaker 3>But the barnacle isn't willing to just sit there. It

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<v Speaker 3>wants to be the boat. I want to be the ship. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>This bio is unhinged.

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<v Speaker 3>It's ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 2>And there's no mention of his time in the clink

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<v Speaker 2>or like his kidneys, but definitely.

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<v Speaker 3>Some Naomi Campbell. And he makes sure to David Beckham.

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<v Speaker 2>He's worth more than one hundred million. Yeah, so he

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<v Speaker 2>cheats all these people and he comes out on top.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh yes, and also he's cheating them out of like

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<v Speaker 3>five thousand pounds to get this number million, like he's

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<v Speaker 3>taking like he's not taking down big targets. Huh.

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<v Speaker 2>So thirty three Portland places for sale by the way,

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<v Speaker 2>right now, Yeah, it's listed on Southby's Realty.

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<v Speaker 3>How much is it worth?

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<v Speaker 2>Seventy five million pounds, which for US Yanks is almost

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<v Speaker 2>ninety five million dollars.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, so it's just out of my price.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, you know, we'll pull it together. It's been

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<v Speaker 2>renovated once again, and so it's very sleek and modern inside.

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<v Speaker 2>I was going to watch the listing video, of course,

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<v Speaker 2>but I only got a little ways into it and

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<v Speaker 2>then it just I got so pissed off. There you go, there,

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't make it out of like the court room. Yeah, Zaren,

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<v Speaker 2>what's your ridiculous takeaway?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh? Thanks, I was afraid you were gonna ask me that. Yes,

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<v Speaker 3>my ridiculous takeaway is this guy who hosts faces and

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<v Speaker 3>rubs shoulders. How is it this? This always works? Like

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<v Speaker 3>I know he's sitting there telling Daily Mail, like I'm

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<v Speaker 3>I'm basically, you know, conning these people in Asia by

0:49:53.600 --> 0:49:56.160
<v Speaker 3>pretending I know these things, and I position myself. He's

0:49:56.239 --> 0:49:58.960
<v Speaker 3>just giving away the game and it still works. Like

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<v Speaker 3>I wish that the bad magicians didn't get so much applause.

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<v Speaker 3>That's what I'm saying like it's not a good trick

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<v Speaker 3>he's doing.

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<v Speaker 2>There's like a sociopathy to it where it's definitely that yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>absolutely no remorse. He's just like this shark swimming through

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<v Speaker 2>the water. It doesn't like you're saying taking someone's last

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<v Speaker 2>five thousand.

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<v Speaker 3>Doing the old tradition to British exploitation. It's like, yeah, seriously,

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<v Speaker 3>it's like the worst of that.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah it is, and I I am so.

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<v Speaker 3>Flat.

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<v Speaker 2>I shouldn't be flabbergasted because it's too common. But the

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<v Speaker 2>superficiality of it all that, like he can't let a kidney,

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<v Speaker 2>you know issue taint this like you know, crazy image

0:50:40.239 --> 0:50:43.120
<v Speaker 2>that he has cultivated. And it's just like everything is

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<v Speaker 2>at a surface level.

0:50:44.760 --> 0:50:44.920
<v Speaker 3>You know.

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<v Speaker 2>I've had all these people in my house and I've

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<v Speaker 2>seen their faces.

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<v Speaker 3>It's not like the stars. They've said hi to me.

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<v Speaker 2>These are my close confidence And you can tell from

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<v Speaker 2>the pictures. It's like you're at a party and you

0:50:54.360 --> 0:50:55.920
<v Speaker 2>lean in and like, hey, take a picture.

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<v Speaker 3>It's all surface, and then sex parties and then orgies.

0:51:00.200 --> 0:51:02.040
<v Speaker 3>It's like either like you're in me or you're looking

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<v Speaker 3>at my surface. That's it. It's all surface.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, that's it. I can't talk about him anymore today.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a horrible person. Kind of fun too, It's gonna be.

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<v Speaker 3>Baby and then all of a sudden.

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<v Speaker 2>My god, humans are terrible.

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<v Speaker 3>You can tell the Prince to put his clothes back

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<v Speaker 3>on and go back to Buckingham Power.

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<v Speaker 3>interns don't come back?

0:51:46.040 --> 0:51:48.520
<v Speaker 2>I bake stuff for them and they love it. Well.

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<v Speaker 3>Producer Dave's super cool with them. I'm just the only

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<v Speaker 3>one that's a jerk. I'm like, oh, are you new here?

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<v Speaker 3>They're like, I've been here for a year. I'm like whatever,

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<v Speaker 4>Your name.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, reach out. That's also interesting though, was oli our

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<v Speaker 3>interns being dogs also problem? I mean then they said

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<v Speaker 3>they don't even listen.

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<v Speaker 2>Huge problem. That's it. Oh hey, wait, Dave, do we

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<v Speaker 2>have any topics? Oh my god, I let cheat.

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<v Speaker 4>Hey, guys, love your show. My wife and I want

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<v Speaker 4>to just point out that Elvis had black hair because

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<v Speaker 4>he really liked Captain Adam the Captain Marvel, Sorry, Captain Marvel,

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<v Speaker 4>not Captain Adam. The guy currently known as Shazam, and

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<v Speaker 4>dude really liked his comic books. It's really cute. Actually,

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<v Speaker 4>I don't like the guy, but I think that's kind

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<v Speaker 4>of cute, right, I think it's cute.

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