Desmond is a foul mouthed, oaf, pornographer, bully, owner of the Daily Express and a Jew.
Private Eye Tells All
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It's Groundhog Day at the Daily Express and Daily Star. Four months after settling a libel action from Kate and Gerry McCann by giving them £550,000 in damages plus an amazing front-page apology, Dirty Des's rags are facing another legal complaint over their coverage of the Madeleine saga.Last week they received solicitors' letters from the so-called "Tapas 7", the McCanns' holiday companions, threatening to sue "in relation to a number of articles".
Once again Dirty Des's legal department has issued an urgent edict that all Maddy-related material on the papers' websites must be "removed forthwith". And, once again, hacks are bracing themselves for a bumper payout and an abject grovel.
RlCHARD "Dirty" Desmond is hugely proud of OK!, which he boasts is the world's biggest-selling magazine. So when a couple of pages inadvertently appeared twice in the same issue earlier this month he became more than somewhat agitated.
"You fuckin' useless fat cunt," he shouted at a female production executive as she tried to dodge the raging chairman. He then threw away her keyboard, ripped out her phone and threatened to kill her.
Two IT guys with the misfortune to be in the room at the time copped it too. "What do you think this is - the fucking canteen?" Dirty Des screamed at a conscientious young man finishing his custard tart at his post. Beside him, another employee sat hunched at his computer screen -leading Desmond to assume, viewing him from behind, that he was asleep. "Wake up you cunt!" he bawled, kicking the chair. "You are fucking fired!"
But there appear to have been some misunderstandings on Desmond's part. The chap sacked for sleeping at his post was in fact wide awake - sitting at a slightly tilted, slumped angle only because his chair was broken. (He has now been reprieved.) And the woman he abused so violently was not involved in the cock-up: it occurred on her day off. She is now off work with stress and consulting m'learned friends. The fate of the custard tart worker remains unknown.
HACKS at the Daily Star have renamed their pop pages BOSS instead of GOSS after their chairman Richard "Dirty" Desmond featured himself across three columns last week. Wearing what looked like one of Roger Daltrey's cast-off shirts (see photograph), Des the drummer and his "supergroup", the RD Crusaders, entertained OK! minions from around the globe at a charity gig......
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He will get away with the murder threat because he is rich and a Jew. Honest men would not.
Jew, Pornographer, Foul Mouthed Oaf And TV Boss - Richard Desmond
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The choice of Richard Desmond as the new owner of Channel Five beggars belief. Never before has a government regulator (Ofcom) lowered the threshold for the suitability of the prospective owner of a TV channel enough for someone like Desmond to control a potentially lucrative franchise. Desmond's success owes much to the general ignorance about his rise to power. Protected by Britain's libel laws and a pact among newspaper proprietors not to attack each other, Desmond has successfully concealed his colourful past to become a major media player in London.The 59-year-old self-made billionaire deserves sickly praise for having risen from earning £1 a night as a young cloakroom attendant in a Tottenham pub to owning a successful global newspaper and magazine empire. Along the way, he has left dozens of victims who testify about his ruthless deal-making, which earned an ever-increasing fortune.
Exactly one year ago, Desmond lost a £4.5m libel battle against me in the high court. No doubt the jury was influenced by the threats, recorded and detailed, made to his investment adviser to recover some money. Desmond translated his threats into a double-page defamatory article in the Sunday Express to pursue a personal grudge against his innocent adviser. That misuse of the newspaper is exactly why he is unsuitable to own a TV channel.
The basis of Desmond's success is hard salesmanship, humiliation of employees and rivals, and draconian cost-cutting. But his achievement should be recognised. When he was just a humble advertising salesman for music magazines, Desmond perfected the art of persuading advertisers to pay top rates while he sharply reduced his own costs. In 1978 he launched International Musician magazine and the Demonde advertising agency with his business partner, Malcolm Green. Their success spawned friction. By 1981, the partnership was broken.
He scored a breakthrough in 1983 by persuading Bob Guccione to award him the licence to publish Penthouse magazine in Britain. Desmond persuaded Menzies and WH Smith to sell his expanding range of magazines. Overnight, he became one of Britain's biggest porn publishers and the provider of hugely profitable sex chatlines. In New York in 2005, Richard "Ricky" Martino – a man linked in court with the Gambino crime family – stood trial. Philip Bailey, who had been beaten up by the Gambinos, testified that Desmond had negotiated with Martino in London and concluded a commercial contract. Desmond has consistently denied the stories and a spokesman at his company Northern & Shell said at the time that Desmond had never met Martino.
In a portent of what would follow, Desmond appeared to enjoy such conflict. He never seemed to suffer any embarrassment, even over his porn TV programmes. With breathtaking audacity, Desmond profited by copying and beating the masters, especially by inventing OK! as a rival to Hello!. That coup was followed in 2000 by his purchase of Express Newspapers for a bargain price. "A dream come true," he said. His success came at a price. He clashed repeatedly with business partners and had ugly confrontations with his staff, including Ted Young, an executive editor at the Express. Like several of Desmond's employees, Young successfully claimed damages in 2004 from Desmond after alleging a physical assault.
But Young, like all Desmond's victims, has never received airtime. Desmond's genius has been to stifle his critics and flourish on Grub Street. Unbelievably, Britain's regulator has ignored his record and judged that he has passed "the quality threshold". Next stop, the House of Lords.
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Tom Bower crossed swords with him and won. He is not really telling all here, just some.