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Richard Desmond, English publisher and businessman, founded Northern & Shell

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Richard Desmond

English publisher and businessman (born 1951)

Richard Clive Desmond is a British publisher, businessman and former pornographer. He is the founder of Northern & Shell, a publisher that started by publishing music magazines in the 1970s, followed by variety of pornographic magazines in the 1980s. In the 1990s it launched…
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Northern & Shell

British publishing and television group

Northern & Shell is a British publishing group, founded in December 1974 and owned since then by Richard Desmond. Formerly a publisher of pornographic magazines including Penthouse and Asian Babes, it published the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday,…
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