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Article: Trouble in paradise for ComputerLand founder
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 2, 1986
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The man is a millionaire several hundred times over and he lives
on a beautiful Pacific island, but life is no luau for William H.
Millard. Everywhere he goes, someone wants his money.
First, there were the former business partners who persuaded a
jury last year that Millard owed them 20 percent of his ComputerLand
retail store empire. Then his dealers revolted because they wanted a
bigger piece of his $1 billion-a-year sales pie.
It was enough to make a fellow sell the store and leave town.
So Millard left Oakland, Calif., last March, settled in the U.S. tax
haven of the Northern Mariana Islands near Guam and soon announced
that he would sell his 96 percent interest in ComputerLand.
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