Piers morgan born rich
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At the age of seventeen he had a mästare plan for becoming the best known journalist in Britain. He’s been in the midst of media scandals, he’s interviewed some of the most famous celebrities and most powerful politicians in the world, and he’s judged the talents of hundreds of common folks. Arrogant, ambitious, and shameless…. so who is this media man? None other than Piers Morgan, of course…
Peirs Morgan Early Life
Piers Morgan was born in Sussex, England in 1965 to an Irish dentist who died when Morgan was only two years old. At birth, Morgan was named Piers Stefan O’Meara, but Morgan’s mother remarried after his father’s death, and Morgan adopted the surname Pugh-Morgan. Morgan and his stepfather were close, and Morgan, having never really known his birth-father, calls him ‘dad.’ His parents were middle-class English, running a värdshus and supporting Margaret Thatcher. When Morgan was 13, the family could no longer afford to send him to private school so he had to leave behin
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In profile: Piers Morgan
Morgan famously battled supermodel Naomi Campbell in court after she won a breach of confidentiality claim against the Mirror, which had published pictures of her leaving drug addiction treatment in early 2001.
The Appeal Court ordered her to pay the paper's £350,000 legal costs after overturning the High Court ruling, but that, too, was overturned by the Law Lords in May 2004 who reinstated the original decision and damages.
Undeterred, Morgan proved he was prepared to take on anyone, even the then-prime minister's wife, Cherie Blair, claiming in 2002 that she had tried to get him sacked. The claim was denied by Downing Street.
But it was Morgan's nod that led to the publication of photographs which allegedly showed British soldiers humiliating Iraqi prisoners of war in spring, 2004.
He continued to insist the photographs were genuine even after the British army had claimed they were fakes. The stubborn stance was to be the editor
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J. P. Morgan
American financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913)
This article is about the American financier. For other uses, see J. P. Morgan (disambiguation) and John Morgan (disambiguation).
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| Born | John Pierpont Morgan (1837-04-17)April 17, 1837 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | March 31, 1913(1913-03-31) (aged 75) Rome, Lazio, Kingdom of Italy |
| Resting place | Cedar Hill Cemetery Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen |
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| Known for | Founding and leading J.P. Morgan & Co. Financing the creation of American Bridge, General Electric; International Harvester; International Mercantile Marine; Southern Railway and U.S. Steel Organizing the Morgan "money trust" which owned Aetna, General Electric, International Mercantile Marine Company, Pullman Palace Car Company, U.S. Steel, Western Union, and 21 railr |