Tina Green
The Arcadia Group owned the clothing retail chains Topshop and Topman, as well as Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Outfit, and Wallis.
[1] Her father was a wine merchant; his business led to long periods living abroad and Green spent her childhood in Hong Kong, Japan and Thailand.
[4] Green met Robert "Bobby" Palos, a South African jazz drummer in Hong Kong when she was 17 and he was 31.
[2][1] Green initially worked in the diamond industry and subsequently moved to South Africa with Palos and the couple opened a fashion boutique in Johannesburg.
[3] Green's daughter, Stasha, subsequently described her mother's early career as having involved being "a diamond dealer, the first female DJ in Johannesburg [and] a go-go dancer" as well as dancing with The Beach Boys.
[3] She met businessman Philip Green in 1985 and described him as "Just an ordinary person with a seriously strong work ethic", who was "a colourful character" with "zero money".
[6] Green, her husband Philip, and their children moved to Monaco in 1998, having previously lived on Avenue Road in London's St John's Wood district.
[9] Tina Green said in a 2005 interview that the couple moved from St John's Wood to Monaco after Philip was the victim of a mugging by three men with a sword.
The party featured performances from Earth, Wind & Fire, and the singers Tom Jones and Rod Stewart.
His 55th birthday party was held in the Maldives at a cost of £20 million, with performances from Jennifer Lopez and George Michael.
[12] His 60th was held at the Rosewood Mayakoba resort in Mexico featuring performances from The Beach Boys, Robbie Williams and Stevie Wonder.
[17] Green has spoken of the British public's perceived resentment of her wealth saying in a 2005 interview that she thought that " ... unfortunately, in this country [the United Kingdom] there's a lot of jealousy.
[4] In 2016 Green said that she or her family had controlling stakes in 11 companies, the majority of which were based in Jersey and the British Virgin Islands.
[19] In 2010 the Greens became the subject of protests from the activist group UK Uncut for their alleged avoidance of corporate taxation.
The company restored and designed the interior of a mews house in London's Belgravia district "almost entirely" in black and white.
[27] Mark Harrison, writing in The Times, described Green's Lalique range as "rather lovely; ornate, but not vulgar; terribly grand" and a "harmonious, genteel, upmarket non-riot of off-white, ebony, crystal and gold".
[28][29] It was revealed in the Swiss Leaks that Green held the "vast majority of [Caring's] cash assets" on trust for him in her bank account with HSBC in Monaco.
[30] Green provided £23.5 million to Caring to help him purchase the restaurant chains Belgo and Strada from Luke Johnson.
[32] In 2009 Caring had told the Evening Standard newspaper that he had just acquired the yacht but it was revealed in the Pandora Papers leak that it had been held in Green's name from 2009 to 2017.
