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OTPROPHET ago

Former husband Rgoer Jenkins' brother was an Olympic athlete later convicted for running a steroid ring. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/roger-jenkins-the-banker-everybody-wants-to-be-seen-with-1543643.html

On Diana:

She spoke no English, and had no money and no family but saved enough to enrol at London’s City University. In her time there she launched an investment fund, through which she met her husband. They married in 1999, the same year their son, Innis, was born. Daughter Eneya was born three years later.

When the couple separated Mr Jenkins promised he would be generous when it came to the settlement. Last year he told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Will she take half my money? Of course. And quite rightly so. Without her, I would not have anything like the success I have had.’

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/business/global/21barclays.html

Roger Jenkins, the Hollywood-connected Barclays executive who last year helped preserved the bank’s independence by securing a vital investment from the Persian Gulf, is planning to establish a firm to advise sovereign wealth funds.

Mr. Jenkins, who is said to be one of London’s highest-paid bankers, is negotiating departure terms after 25 years with Barclays, a person with direct knowledge of the talks said Monday. The person declined to be identified because no agreement had been reached.

Mr. Jenkins first voiced interest in founding a firm a year ago, but senior executives persuaded him to stay to help Barclays through the worst of the credit crisis, this person said.

According to The Sunday Times Rich List, Mr. Jenkins earned £40 million, or $65 million, last year and has personal wealth of £120 million.

Mr. Jenkins, who is chairman of the investment banking business in the Middle East but is based in London, is said to be eager to move to Los Angeles to spend more time with his family.

In October, he was vital to Barclays’ £5.8 billion, or $8.6 billion, deal with Qatar and Abu Dhabi, which helped the bank avoid having to accept a government bailout, which would have meant surrendering some control to the British government. This year, he worked on the sale of iShares, the business that was eventually acquired by BlackRock as part of its purchase of Barclays Global Investors.

Mr. Jenkins could not be reached for comment Monday.

His wife, Sanela Diana Jenkins, introduced him in 2006 to Sheik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar and director of its sovereign wealth fund. Mrs. Jenkins is a socialite who considers Mick Jagger and Paris Hilton friends. The couple co-hosted an event with George Clooney in December that helped raise £10 million for refugees from Darfur, Reuters reported.

smokemirrors ago

How did she meet her "$40 million" husband "at the gym" if she could "only afford to eat Toblerones"? LOL. Im presuming the gym wasn't a Planet Fitness (or whatever is London's equivalent.) Her biography is such made up bullshit, its breathtaking. She was a prostitute and street hustler. The end.

mrjdouble ago

The mutual objective shared by both parties was to get money and business was good!

smokemirrors ago

Im joining a gym today.