Nick Leslau (born Cricklewood, North London), is an English commercial property millionaire, with an estimated fortune in the Sunday Times Rich List of £200million.
The son of a father who was a jeweller and skilled part-time art historian, his parents divorced when he was nine so his mother worked full time so that Leslau could be educated at a preparatory school in Hampstead, and at Mill Hill School. Due to his then poverty and the fact his mot...
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Nick Leslau (born Cricklewood, North London), is an English commercial property millionaire, with an estimated fortune in the Sunday Times Rich List of £200million.
The son of a father who was a jeweller and skilled part-time art historian, his parents divorced when he was nine so his mother worked full time so that Leslau could be educated at a preparatory school in Hampstead, and at Mill Hill School. Due to his then poverty and the fact his mother converted to Catholicism, Leslau didn't have his barmitzvah until the age of 28 - which he describes as a $250 quickie at the Wailing Wall - in order to marry his wife Maxine.
As a teenager, Leslau took a job helping the local milkman for 50p a round, and later buying umbrellas in bulk to resell at a market stall. Aged 17, Leslau became manager of the Late Late Store, a grocery shop in Belsize Park — one of his pizza buying customers was ex-Mill Hill old boy and City financier Nigel Wray.
Leslau left a degree studying German at the...
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