{"id":15800,"date":"2011-09-03T05:02:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T22:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-fall-and-rise-of-ivan-massow\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T03:19:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T20:19:58","slug":"the-fall-and-rise-of-ivan-massow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-fall-and-rise-of-ivan-massow\/","title":{"rendered":"The fall and rise of Ivan Massow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nCrushed by a court case, his business in tatters, the gay finance entrepreneur fled to Barcelona and fell into alcoholism. His unlikely saviour? Joan CollinsThere were six empty wine bottles strewn over the floor of Joan Collins&#8217;s lavish St Tropez villa as a very hungover Ivan Massow sloped down to breakfast. And it wasn&#8217;t the star of Dynasty who had been knocking back the vino in large quantities. &#8220;Ivan, I had just one glass last night. Nearly all the rest must have been you,&#8221; she told him. &#8220;I think you have a problem and it&#8217;s time for you to do something about it.&#8221;Three years later \u2013 via a prolonged stay at the celebrity rehab hangout Promises in Los Angeles \u2013 Massow thanks his &#8220;second mum&#8221; for rescuing him from the alcoholic haze that followed a failed \u00a313m court case against insurance company Zurich. The bedside bottle of vodka (he hasn&#8217;t drunk since 2008) has gone, swapped for hour-long jogs along the Thames at dawn, and a weekly Alcoholics\u00a0Anonymous group he chairs in Soho. And on Monday the serial entrepreneur, now 43, opens an intriguing and cheeky new finance firm that will throw him back into the business and media spotlight once again. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2011\/sep\/02\/fall-and-rise-ivan-massow\" target=\"_blank\">The fall and rise of Ivan Massow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Crushed by a court case, his business in tatters, the gay finance entrepreneur fled to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-46Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50159,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-copper-is-hot-property-antofagasta-boss-ivan-arriagada\/","url_meta":{"origin":15800,"position":0},"title":"Why copper is hot property: Antofagasta boss Ivan Arriagada","date":"March 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Why copper is hot property: Antofagasta boss Ivan Arriagada","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45140,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/britain-faces-legal-void-if-it-fails-to-strike-eu-trade-deal-warns-ex-ambassador-sir-ivan-rogers\/","url_meta":{"origin":15800,"position":1},"title":"Britain faces &#039;legal void&#039; if it fails to strike EU trade deal, warns ex-ambassador Sir Ivan Rogers","date":"February 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r \r \r Source : telegraph.co.uk\r Read more...Britain faces 'legal void' if it fails to strike EU trade deal, warns ex-ambassador Sir Ivan Rogers","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":141571,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/dubai-calling-ukrainian-serial-entrepreneur-ivan-kroshny-launching-his-5th-venture-in-the-emirate\/","url_meta":{"origin":15800,"position":2},"title":"Dubai calling: Ukrainian serial entrepreneur Ivan Kroshny launching his 5th venture in the emirate","date":"January 18, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Kroshny\u2019s latest venture in Dubai is greatly influenced by COP28, which brought home the urgency of sustainability measures on war footing to tackle global warming \u2013 threatening to turn into \u2018global boiling\u2019 in the not-so-distant future\r \r Source : arabianbusiness.com\r Read more...Dubai calling: Ukrainian serial entrepreneur Ivan Kroshny launching\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Eco-Way-e-bike-1000x667-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":93831,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/work-from-home-option\/","url_meta":{"origin":15800,"position":3},"title":"Work from home option","date":"July 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r For the last 14 years Susan and Ivan de Spa have been spoiled. 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