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Diary

Tom Bower’s Diary: Resuming hostilities with Richard Branson

Plus: My unlikely friendship with Simon Cowell

27 September 2014

8:00 AM

27 September 2014

8:00 AM

This week marks another milestone in my 15-year battle with Richard Branson. Ever since he unsuccessfully sued me in 1999 to prevent the publication of my first damning biography, we have exchanged shots. His anointment on Sunday as Britain’s most admired businessman coincides with my appearances to promote Branson: Behind the Mask, my second book.

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Tom Bower is an investigative journalist who has written biographies of Robert Maxwell, Conrad Black, Simon Cowell and Richard Branson.

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