A couple of years before that documentary, he'd done another for ITV with journalist Martin Bashir in 1999, during which van Hoogstraten took a camera crew on a tour of his 40m mansion during its construction and discussed the planting of trees on the estate, saying he was doing it himself to buy his way into heaven. Because of this omission, Judge Mitchell decided that Hoogstraten could not have anticipated that Raja might have been killed and he acquitted Hoogstraten of manslaughter. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. "[36], Hoogstraten first bought an estate in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1964, aged 19. Raja failed to foresee the drop in prices and kept buying, which eventually put him in financial trouble. 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Local residents complained it was a disgrace Hamilton Palace was being left to rot. It doesn't look like anything has happened here for a long time. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Sign up to our daily newsletter for all the latest Kent stories and breaking news delivered straight to your inbox. We've noticed you've got your ad blocker turned on. [22] Recent drone footage shows an abandoned building surrounded by scaffolding on which foliage is growing. It was once said to be the most expensive private house built in Britain for a century and it is bigger than Buckingham Palace. Now the Mail can reveal Nicholas Van Hoogstraten's astonishing new life See PA story . To the anger of the local community, work on the mansion halted in 2001. British businessman Nicholas van Hoogstraten, says he is going to challenge the reconstruction of Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL). The half-built Hamilton Place is owned by Nicholas Van Hoogstraten. [4], In January 2006, he stated in an interview with The Sunday Times that, as a result of loaning 10million to Mugabe, "In six months' time, when the interest is due, it would be cheaper for them to just kill me". "I'm the oasis in the desert of everything I'm dealing with, bollocks to the rest of the world. When you come to me, you're going to deal with me on my terms and I want my money.". The British landscape is marked with grandiose architectural indulgences, from the ruins of gothic towers built by slave owners to columns that commemorate long-ago battles. And byown it, I mean own it theres no mortgage on anything. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. [4] In 2000, he described his opponents in the case as being "a bunch of disenfranchised perverts". Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. It couldn't be simpler and it takes seconds - simply click here OR here, enter your email address and follow the instructions. Referring to people he says have crossed him during a spell in prison, because they believed he was not going to be released, he says: "What they don't seem to appreciate is if I wasn't coming out they were in far more personal danger from what I was likely to do, from what I would do. Updated On January 29, 2023. Nicholas Van Hoogstraten - Life Life He was born Nicholas Marcel Hoogstraten in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, the working-class son of a shipping agent. 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That's the difference between people who have made their money and people that have inherited it.". You can also enter your email address in the box below the picture on most desktop and mobile platforms. He runs his business empire from the Courtlands Hotel in Hove and said in March this year "I own nearly everything around here. Van Hoogstraten (who now goes by the name Nicholas von Hessen) is enormously wealthy. PA Photo. The chance of my offering an opportunity for them to occupy Hamilton Palace is just ludicrous." Who is Nicholas van Hoogstraten: Nicholas van Hoogstraten is a famous British businessman. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Mugabe's British henchman: One of our worst slum landlords , he built a monstrous mansion in Sussex and had a rival murdered. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Those photos show an an eerie building, shrouded in scaffolding and overgrowing foliage, with discarded containers, construction equipment and other items littered throughout the grounds. 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And I've had properties registered in that name."[16]. Please consider supporting our journalism by turning it off. Hoogstraten was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, to Charles, a violent man who worked as a shipping agent importing meat from Argentina who was absent for long periods in South America, [5] [3] [7] [a] and Edna, a housewife. But there is a definite sense of unease. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Yet to judge from recent photographs it sits still unfinished and unlived-in, a vast. [12] He was freed on appeal. He was educated in a Jesuit school and said earlier this year that being a Jesuit was one of the "connections" he had with former Zimbawean leader Robert Mugabe, who had been a close friend. Locals have previously vented about the large area being left unused and there was a row over a public footpath that ran through it that van Hoogstraten did not want to be used. 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In 2009, it was reported he had been "a generous contributor to Mugabe's Zanu (PF) party and [had] bought into several large state-owned companies". That's the way I am, that's the way I've always been and I'm not going to change. We considered whether any order would be impossible and how easy it would be for the press to comply with it. And he has also denied that the house is falling apart, saying: "Hamilton Palace is far from 'crumbling' and was built to last for at least 2,000 years. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. [16], Residents of 2-6 Palmeira Square in Hove took van Hoogstraten to court in September 1999 alleging he had used multiple aliases as a shadow director of Saga Properties (which owned the freehold in 1991) to indicate interests in the flats to block a property deal on the freehold. [9] Hoogstraten built up his capital through a loan sharking business based in towns along the south coast of England, where he would take property deeds as collateral. The residents had eventually gained the right to the deal, which enabled them to buy the property, after a three-year legal case. [citation needed], On 3 July 2009, after he had reputedly changed his name to Nicholas Adolf von Hessen by deed poll, it was reported that a Zimbabwe court had dismissed the charges of illegal currency dealing and possession of pornography: the police were unable to produce the officer who had allegedly caught him on the currency charge and they had seized the pornography without a warrant. In 1990, he had the public paths blocked with razor wire and a pile of discarded refrigerators. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Its one of the reasons why nobody can tell me what to do. 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And I'm an expert in arranging things by remote control. The neoclassical palace features a copper dome and is larger than Buckingham Palace. He doesn't shy away from it, he never has. [14] Van Hoogstraten said of the grenade attack in 2000: "It seems a bit distasteful to me now, but back then when I was young these weren't anarchists, they were businessmen, respectable people". [15], On 26 January 2008, he was arrested in Harare for allegedly demanding payment in US dollars for rents rather than in Zimbabwean dollars, which is forbidden under Zimbabwean law. Van Hoogstraten's main concern is money, and the accumulation of wealth. It is hidden away off of an unassuming junction on the A22 south of Uckfield in East Sussex and the house, bigger than Buckingham Palace, is completely obscured by a thick wooded area. In October, Government placed Hwange Colliery Company Limited under reconstruction. Something went wrong, please try again later. Nicholas van Hoogstraten is a super-rich business man whose ruthless exploits have kept his name in the headlines for 30 years. Twice-married Mr Van Hoogstraten - who has changed his name to Nicholas Adolf von Hessen - handed over many of his UK businesses to his children in 2002 after he was jailed for hiring a. If you want to stay in the know with all the latest news, reviews and features from SussexLive then you can sign up to our daily newsletter email. If we restrict aspects of the hearing that goes to the question of transparency of proceedings. However, if property is theft, all property is equally theft. He is said to have started making money selling stamps as a teenager before moving into property and, by the age of 22, had 350 properties in Sussex alone. It is a singularly macabre structure, with a golden domed mausoleum for Van Hoogstraten at its centre. On the morning of 2 July 1999, two of Hoogstraten's hired thugs, disguised as handymen, arrived at Raja's residence. [30], In the early part of 2005, Hoogstraten's strategy of dispensing with his own legal Counsel and inexplicably mounting his own defence by acting in person, ignoring the Judge's advice to abandon such behaviour, led to the judgement on the 19 December 2005 in favour and for the family of Raja, in their civil action against van Hoogstraten and were awarded 6 million by Mr Justice Lightman, after the court found that on the balance of probabilities "that the recruitment of the two thugs was for the purpose of murdering Mr Raja and not merely to frighten, threaten or hurt him". Public school-educated arms dealers posing as philanthropists are one thing, but this notorious slum landlord who lives in Zimbabwe after being exonerated in a horrific murder case on appeal, after initially being found guilty of manslaughter seems like a caricature of amoral capitalism. For other inquiries, Contact Us. Hamilton Palace is now owned by a holding company with four of his adult children as directors. In the 1980s housing boom he acquired more than 2,000 properties and had sold 90 per cent of them by the 1990s. Complete with garish golden domes, the house near. Why should I put up with it? Either all private architecture is an insult to homeless people and to tenants or we should tolerate Hamilton Palace as the absurd and hideous ugly cousin of more fashionable private building ventures. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. "And he's going to list all the crimes, or supposed crimes, I'm supposed to have committed. He later sold the majority of his housing to invest outside Britain, chiefly in mining and farming interests in Nigeria and, later, Zimbabwe. he British landscape is marked with grandiose architectural indulgences, from the, after being exonerated in a horrific murder case on appeal. I wouldn't say we do it for ecological reasons. I don't have to be nice to anybody.". [3], Construction of the mansion began in 1985 and had cost around 40million by 2006. Neither his personal reputation nor his aesthetic choices are a reason to call for his house, rather than any other, to be turned into a hostel or handed over to public use. [8] He was educated at a Jesuit school in nearby Worthing. Alexander Hamilton complained to Sussex Police over his arrest in August, 2019 on suspicion of wheelclamping a vehicle in a car park owned by his company in The Drive, Hove. He refers to being prepared to do "whatever is necessary" to get what he wants and has previously been happy to say on camera: "I think I've gone on public record in the past saying I'd have had his bollocks chopped off.". Though few have seen inside the mansion, one reporter who has described in 2000 a grand central staircase and reception hall, with lift shafts already installed and expensive stone balustrades and pillars. You cant celebrate as we do people building modern houses on Grand Designs, then condemn Van Hoogstraten for doing much the same thing in his own awful way. It is a clear message: do not try and come in. Van Hoogstraten, a convicted criminal who is now 75 and goes by the name of Nicholas von Hessen, is a Sussex native born in Shoreham who owns dozens of properties in the area. But Brighton and Hove News objected, saying this reason was not enough to justify overriding the importance of openness and transparency in proceedings. He is the scourge of ramblers, a ruthless property baron who regards his tenants as "filth" and his women as chattels. [18] In May 2000, van Hoogstraten was fined 1,500 in Hove Crown Court for contempt of court for his reference the previous September to barrister Graham Campbell during the case: "You dirty bastard. Apparently useless because Greek temples on aristocratic estates often turn out to be water towers in disguise. [11], He was sentenced to a four-year prison sentence in May 1968, and sentenced to a further four-year sentence the following August, to run concurrently, after an appeal. Picture date: Tuesday March 3, 2020. At breakfast, he speaks to his eldest son about why a large pot of Marmite, bought at a discount price, is more economical than multiple small single servings. If I wanted, I could pay 50 to men in London to get every Jew in Brighton bumped off". Crime to me is if you take advantage of an innocent person, who doesn't know any better - that is a crime". It says screw you not just to ramblers, neighbours and migrants, but to the landscape itself. It may even be an eccentric marvel of a kind: a grisly self-portrait in the form of a loveless mansion. His vast yet unused palace has now become a symbol of Britains housing crisis. In the 1960s, a judge at his trial for arranging a hand grenade to be thrown through the window of someone said to owe him money called him "a sort of self-imagined devil who thinks he is an emissary of Beelzebub". He was born in 1946 in Shoreham, East Sussex, as Nicholas Marcel Hoogstraten - the "van" was added later. The fine was not paid and the company was then in the process of being wound up. His house is more like an abandoned Victorian asylum than a Palladian mansion. But, 35 years after work on the enormous 40 million mansion began in 1985, it remains no more than a huge shell and has been dubbed the 'Ghost House of Sussex', lying mostly abandoned. Around 1979, he was fined 200 for punching and kicking a bailiff. Stuck on the gate is a sign 'High Cross Estate, Private Property, Keep Out' written in capital letters. Uppermost in my mind is saving money, of course. It doesnt hurt me or you that one man has spent his money on a golden-domed folly. In 1999, one of his business partners Mohammed Raja was killed by two thugs Hoogstraten had hired. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Low-level lighting had been installed on the roof, where there was to be a garden, and there was space for a fountain below. Today, the domed roof of the main building still rises over the top of the treeline and remains visible from a distance from the nearest set of houses in the hamlet of Palehouse Common. Nicholas van Hoogstraten has something of a history with law enforcement: he was given a four-year prison sentence in 1968 for criminal damage, after arranging for a hand grenade to be thrown into . It is a grotesque creation. Van Hoogstraten, a convicted criminal who is now 76 and goes by the name of Nicholas von Hessen, is a Sussex native born in Shoreham who owns dozens of properties in the area. Raja did default, and Hoogstraten in turn seized some of Raja's properties using those forms. On Buzzlearn.com, Nicholas is listed as a successful Businessman who was born in the year of 1945. Few have been inside, but one reporter who did, in 2000, when it was said to be two years off completion, described a grand central staircase and reception hall, with lift shafts already installed and expensive stone balustrades and pillars. Van Hoogstraten, a convicted criminal who is now 75 and goes by the name of Nicholas von Hessen, is a Sussex native born in Shoreham who owns dozens of properties in the area. Raja used this money to buy properties.[27]. 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