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Article: A Texas Tycoon's Final Showdown.(Justice)(Oscar Wyatt Jr. )
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- Newsweek
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- September 17, 2007
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Byline: Suzanne Smalley, Mark Hosenball and Gretel C. Kovach
The Feds say Oscar Wyatt Jr. was paying off Saddam. The oilman insists he was just trying to stop a war.
Oscar Wyatt Jr. has been called a lot of things in his stormy, storied career. In Houston, some revere the 83-year-old tycoon as the last great oilman, a poor kid who worked like hell and became a billionaire. Married to a beautiful socialite, he lives like a robber baron of old, summering in the south of France, dining with Prince Charles and Elton John and piloting his own airplanes between lavish homes. Wyatt lore has it that he got his wife to accept his proposal of marriage by putting ...