James Goldsmith

His first wife whom he married when 20 was the Bolivian heiress Doña María Isabel Patiño y Borbón 17-year-old daughter of tin magnate Antenor Patiño and the 3rd Duchess of Dúrcal. However he continued corporate raiding including an attempt on British-American Tobacco in 1989 (for which he joined Kerry Packer and Jacob Rothschild). " Later Goldsmith joined the army.

Towards the end of his life he became a magazine publiJames Goldsmithr and a politician. Sir James Michael "Jimmy" Goldsmith (26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997) was an Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon. In 1994 he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he subsequently founded the short-lived eurosceptic Referendum Party in the United Kingdom.