Maxwell son faces final humiliation in everything-must-go garage sale

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Maxwell son faces final humiliation in everything-must-go garage sale
By Will Pavia
Times


HE has seen his father reviled, his name blackened at the Old Bailey and his fortunes squashed beneath £400 million of debt.
But yesterday the youngest son of the late Robert Maxwell faced perhaps his greatest humiliation: opening up the family home to bargain hunters for an everything-must-go jumble sale. Kevin and Pandora Maxwell’s “garage sale” began at 7:30am at Moulsford Manor, near Cholsey in Oxfordshire, the 11-bedroom pile bought for the couple in 1994 by Mrs Maxwell’s father.

Faced with more than £3 million of debt and after several appearances at Oxford County Court this summer, the couple have sold the house for £2.5 million. They must be out by Friday. A vast and bewildering array of knick-knacks were offered to all comers.

The crowd of neighbours and car-boot sale aficionados who arrived at the crack of dawn found Robert Maxwell’s sporran and kilt, 25 separate Russian doll sets, a kayak, a rowing boat, Pandora’s red Mini Cooper, a large wooden door imported from Oman and small bags of rags at 20p a pop.

Only his father’s old army uniform was considered too dear to part with — as buyers crowded into the house and into a marquee hired for the occasion, Mr Maxwell surreptitiously slapped a sold sign on Captain Robert Maxwell’s Second World War tunic. “It is just too sentimental to sell,” Mrs Maxwell said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-1797912,00.html

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1. My heart bleeds.........

Scumbag son of a Thatcher protogee....

'Robert Maxwell Was A Mossad Spy':
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12419168&method=full&siteid=50143

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2. Perhaps Adrian Mole will let Pandora share his home on Rat Wharf with him

... "Rat Wharf" would seem a very appropriate location ..

The Skin

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3. Oh no!

Those poor people! :nopity:

Actually, they could have saved money: rather than hiring that marquee, they could have used Maxwell's aforementioned uniform.

I hope Kevin's pension is secure. :sarcasm:

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4. What you can buy at the Great Maxwell House Clearance Sale:

1 Life Jacket (unused)

(from Private Eye)