Jack Dellal

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Person.png Jack Dellal  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(businessman)
Born2 October 1923
Died28 October 2012 (Age 89)
NationalityUK
EthnicityJewish
Children • Gaby Dellal
• Jasmine Dellal
Member ofLe Cercle
UK property developer, Le Cercle

Jack Dellal was a British-Jewish property investor, nicknamed "Black Jack". Dellal had a net worth of £4.6 billion, making him one of the richest men in England during his time.[1]

He attended Le Cercle.

Career

Dellal became a banker in the 1970s. He owned the Dalton Barton London fringe bank, which he sold to Keyser Ullman for £58 million. He set up Allied Commercial in 1974 with Stanley Van Gelder, with whom he worked for over forty years.[2][3]

Perhaps Dellal’s most famous deal was his "flipping" of Bush House, the former BBC World Service headquarters, which he picked up for £55 million in 1987 and sold on to a Japanese investor a few months later for £130 million. Complaints to the Department of Trade and Industry led to an investigation, but no proceedings followed.[2]

Dellal's nickname, "Black Jack", was popularly said to have derived from his love of gambling.[4]


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