Born in 1923 in Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic, in an area which is now part of Ukraine, Robert Maxwell emigrated to Britain as a young man. He was a media magnate with a publishing empire, which included a number of high-profile publications. His holdings included the Daily Mirror in the U.K., as well as MacMillan Book Publishers and the New York Daily News in America, among other outlets, as his Britannica biography explains.
A veteran of both the Czech and the British armies during World War II, Maxwell was also a one-time member of the British Parliament. Among his various business ventures, Maxwell owned both the Oxford United and Derby County football clubs in Great Britain, as The Guardian goes on to report. Shortly after he died, evidence emerged that Maxwell’s business empire was not all that it seemed, when billions of dollars were found missing from his company’s pension funds.
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Throughout his life Robert Maxwell kept close ties with Israel, and when he was given what amounted to the funeral service of a state dignitary in Jerusalem, speculation intensified that he could have been murdered by the Mossad, or that he, himself, could have even been an agent for the Israeli agency. And the Mossad is not the only international espionage organization with which Maxwell is implicated.
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