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Article: Villa owner on Rich List ; SURVEY: Lerner leaps into Midlands wealth poll
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- January 17, 2008
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ASTON Villa owner Randy Lerner has shot into the Premier League
of the Midlands' super-rich - less than 18 months after the pounds
62.6 million takeover deal.
The Villa Park supremo is the most high-profile new entrant into
the realms of the region's elite rich, revealed in today's
Birmingham Post.
Lerner, aged 45, is worth pounds 800 million, ensuring him fifth
spot in the 2008 Rich List.
The US tycoon, who also owns American football team the Cleveland
Browns, made his fortune from his Securities Advisors Inc investment
empire, which he owned and managed until 2001.
The man who finally unseated Doug Ellis at Villa Park recently
bought a house in the region said to be worth pounds ...