On this day: Robert Maxwell dies
On this day, 5 November 1991, the body of Robert Maxwell was dredged up from the Atlantic Ocean. Eliot Wilson traces the rise and fall of the media tycoon.
On the chilly evening of November 5th, 1991, the decomposed remains of 68-year-old Robert Maxwell, the flamboyant media magnate, were recovered from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands. Divers brought the naked, rigid 22-stone body of the man whose life had been nothing short of a grandiose performance to the surface.
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