Daily Mail Survives Rothschild Lawsuit for Reporting New ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Facts

For an enterprising researcher, this article in The Independent, plus some searches through the Daily Mail and other UK and greater European sites could yield some very pertinent information.

Rothschild loses libel case, and reveals secret world of money and politics

Thanks to billionaire’s legal battle, we now know a lot more about how the super-rich work

Tom Peck – Saturday 11 February, 2012

The Rothschild estate in Agios Stefanos, Corfu, where Peter Mandleson and George Osborne were guests of Nat Rothschild in 2008 Rex Features

With his long limbs and delicate gait, Lord Mandelson could no doubt manage a quite convincing turn in Thunderbirds.

He’d find Jeff Tracy most convivial: a billionaire astronaut with his own Pacific island, and now, it seems, he even has his own camera-shy friend to pull the strings.

According to the High Court, Nathaniel Rothschild, scion of the banking dynasty and friend of seemingly everyone in the spheres of finance, business and politics, is indeed “puppet master” to the Baron of Hartlepool and Foy.

The banker and Bullingdon boy has lost his libel case against the Daily Mail, which he sued for “substantial damages” over its account of his and Mr Mandelson’s extraordinary trip to Russia in January 2005.

Mr Rothschild claimed he was subjected to “sustained and unjustified” attacks in the May 2010 article, which portrayed him as a “puppet master”, dangling his friend Lord Mandelson in front of the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to ease the passage of colossal business deals.

Messrs Rothschild and Mandelson’s Russian trip would certainly have made entertaining viewing, but maybe not for Thunderbirds fans. Nobody needed rescuing, that’s for certain.

It began on Mr Rothschild’s private jet from the World Economic Forum in Davos to Moscow, where they met Mr Deripaska….

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