One of them married Nicky Hilton, Paris’s sister. Another is an environmental activist in Santa Monica, California who crossed the Pacific Ocean in “Plastiki,” a craft made of recycled plastic bottles. Another tragically died just two weeks ago at age 57. They invest, run business interests, donate generously to a variety of causes, and not one of them has ever caused a forest fire with laser beams.
Today’s Rothschilds aren’t as rich as Bezos and Gates, but they still command the attention of antisemites and conspiracy mongers. Case in point: Just over two years ago, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia suggested in a Facebook post that the 2018 Northern California wildfires were started by PG&E, in conjunction with the Rothschilds, using a space laser, in order to clear room for a high-speed rail project.
Awkwardly for the Government, that man was one of its own advisers, the multi-millionaire financier Ben Goldsmith.
The Daily Mail can disclose that Mr Goldsmith, who is on the board of the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is staying in the UAE with his wife and young children.
‘We are in Abu Dhabi, which has strict quarantine requirements on arrival and almost no cases of Covid,’ he told this newspaper.
However, direct inbound flights from the UAE were banned by Britain from 1pm yesterday after evidence that a more infectious South African strain of Covid-19 had been detected there. Business trips to the UAE will no longer be considered essential.
One of them married Nicky Hilton, Paris’s sister. Another is an environmental activist in Santa Monica, California who crossed the Pacific Ocean in “Plastiki,” a craft made of recycled plastic bottles. Another tragically died just two weeks ago at age 57. They invest, run business interests, donate generously to a variety of causes, and not one of them has ever caused a forest fire with laser beams.
Today’s Rothschilds aren’t as rich as Bezos and Gates, but they still command the attention of antisemites and conspiracy mongers. Case in point: Just over two years ago, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia suggested in a Facebook post that wildfires in California started by PG&E, in conjunction with the Rothschilds, using a space laser, in order to clear room for a high-speed rail project.
Hamilton’s former political violence underwriter Ben Goldsmith has joined Chaucer as an e-trading underwriter within its terrorism and political violence operation, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Finally a glimmer of light for banking heir Kate Rothschild and her partner Paul Forkan – I am delighted to report that the couple are expecting.
Their first child together is due in June, Kate has confirmed to me – and it represents some much-needed good news for a family plagued with tragedy in recent years.
Kate’s eldest child, Iris, was killed at the age of just 15 when her off-road Polaris Mule buggy overturned at the Somerset farm owned by her father, financier Ben Goldsmith, in July 2019.
The family were left devastated by their sudden loss, and her mother has documented her grief on her Instagram page ever since.