Ms Coates salary fell from £421m to £250m in the financial year to March 28, 2021, as the pandemic stalled growth at the gambling giant, but she also took home a share of the firm s £97.5m dividend.
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The bookie s daughter from Stoke who hit the jackpot: How ultra-secretive workaholic mother-of-five Denise Coates, 53, became Britain s best paid woman after mortgaging family business to set up Bet365 - and is using her £469MILLION salary to build a futuristic fortress
Bet365 boss Denise Coates originally trained as an accountant but hated job so made switch to bookies
But in the late 1990s after taking father s Provincial Racing shops to profit she gambled on new online future
They mortgaged the stores to get £15million loan to build Bet365, starting from a Portkabin in a car park
Yesterday it emerged her idea had seen her paid £469million, UK s largest salary, as it spectacularly paid off