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SIMONCOWELL: WORLD’S MOST HATED,

BEST-LOVED TELEVISIONTALENT CyNIC



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VER THE pAST DECADE, SIMObeome one o he word weahe

reay-eeon peronae. Mu

magnae, he ha beome a ape

and an unoppabe ore n he e

the unparaeed ue o h A aen-earh ompeon npred

tv-how ranhe ‘x faor’ and ‘G

beng reened n 44 ounre around

buneman, smon ao he owner o syo, he eeon

pubhng houe ha produe abum o he arou reordha doered.

Whe h quk-wed rm mean he’ oen au o

aprng perormer, ao mean ha h rare prae arre

enough wegh o jump-ar a onean’ enre areer. Ah

oaonay rue, unuuay ra and away andd, whe word’ be-known eeon aen judge ak, peope en.

loe hm or hae hm — or een a b o boh — here’

no denyng ha smon cowe one o oday’ harpe

oberer (or, oud be, reaor?) o meda rend and

poena pop-uura enaon.




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COWELL ha ren ond mo reognzabe

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rademarked ra —money, any, ar,

a ruy oeon o knny jean and gh

bak t-hr — ha enourage he emae

enourage o endey urround hm.smon, a eong onrmed baheor,

mgh arguaby hae beome Bran’ mo

egbe monare ne he engagemen

o Prne Wam. Bu, he eem o

hnk he ha nay ound “he one” n Ameran ido makeup ar Mezhgan

Huany. Aer meeng smon on he

e and dang hm or abou a year, he

37-year-od Aghan-born beauy reeed a

mae, awe damond rng n february 2010. Weghng n a appromaey

ara, he bran-u, baube emaed

o be worh around $750,000.

s, ne her engagemen, he ha

onnued o urround hme wh





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beauu women, many o whomare e-grrend. to anyone ee

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hae a harem o women aroundhm.

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mng dehy when he woud

end her o on eended gg.

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breakng her hear), wh

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TOYS:

At age 51, the multi-millionaire can clearly afford

the finer things in life, and is certainly not shy about

splashing around the cash. Chief among his prized

possessions is the fleet of luxury cars housed in this hot-

shot’s high-end garage. At a cost of more than $400,000 apiece, Simon

splurged on not one, but three Rolls Royce Phantom

Dropheads. He bought one for his time spent in L.A.,

a second for his home in London, and the final (in the

form of a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe) just forfun. True, there aren’t many other British carmakers that

are quite as prestigious as Rolls Royce when it comes to

classic construction, comfort and style, but the eighteen-

foot-long and six-foot-wide

Coupe is no slouch either.With V12 under the

bonnet, the Roller

boasts a top speed of

149mph.

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the BBC’s popular ‘Top Gear’ television program, Simonwaxed lyrical about his Rolls: “It’s the most beautiful,

most comfortable, best-engineered car ever built. I can

hardly bring myself to say it but it’s - oh, sod it! - perfect.

During his appearance on the show, he also blitzed the

BBC’s ‘Top Gear’ track in 1:47.1 — the eighth fastest timeoverall for the ‘Star in a Reasonably Priced Car’ segment,

and the third fastest for a non-professional driver in series

eight. So, Simon’s has become well-known.

Given Simon’s love of speed machines, it’s no surprise

that the crowning jewel in his superb supercar collectionis a $1.2-million (£750,000) Bugatti Veyron — the fastest

roadworthy/street-legal car in the world, and also the

most expensive. With an excess of 1000 horsepower,

the Veyron (built by Volkswagen) reaches a top speed

of 253.81 mph (408.47 km/h). Cowell can counthimself among a very exclusive crowd,

as only a limited number have been

manufactured.

The music mogul’s other motor-toys

include a black Bentley convertible and





a Ferrari F430 Spyder, capable of doing 193 mph andreaching zero-to-sixty mph in just 4.1 seconds. He is also

rumoured to have recently purchased a £65,000 Jaguar

XK convertible for fiancée Mezghan Hussainy.

DIGS:

Cowell’s $22-million modern

Beverly Hills mansion, which he has

called his “dream home”, includes

neighbours Tom Cruise, Madonna,

the Osbournes, and Victoriaand David Beckham. In 2009, Simon

told the London Daily Mail, “I’ve

been involved in every aspect of

the design of the new place, right

down to the doorknobs. I have otherhouses, but this is my dream home.”

The five-bedroom, six-bathroom

mansion features a state-of-the-art

gym in the basement, a luxury spa

(complete with wet steam room) and





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an indoor lap pool with adjoining solarium. The property also boasts separate staff quarters, containing a servants’

kitchen, to house his live-in butler and maid.

A custom-made, hi-tech media center was built to

include a private cinema room featuring a marble bar

area and plush leather seatingfor 20. The outdoor pool cabana

has a retractable roof, wet bar

and changing rooms, while a

putting green sits at the rear of the

property, just for sport. As a further testament to his

self-professed vanity (and on top of

the investment sunk regularly into

his beloved Botox), Simon had a

private tanning salon installed — asolarium off the master bedroom,

complete with one full-length

tanning machine and a smaller

“booster” facial tanner — in

order to effortlessly maintain that





perfectly bronzed appearance.

Cowell’s primary residence in the U.K. is an $11-million

house, located in London’s upscale Holland Park

neighbourhood. He also owns another villa in Spain, and

a $1.5-million investment property in Dubai, on the island





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of Palm Jumeirah.On the Caribbean island of Barbados,

construction is currently underway

on Cowell’s new 13,000-square-foot

vacation villa, situated directly on the

sands in Paradise Beach bay and valuedat £22 million (around $35 million). The

prestigious Paradise Beach development

is a luxurious high-end rival to the

famous Sandy Lane resort, where Four

Seasons is building a hotel beside theresort that will provide 24-hour service

to residents for an annual charge of

£18,000 (say, $28,000). There, his future

neighbours include Lord Andrew Lloyd-

Webber, ‘Formula 1’ team-boss EddieJordan and the head of Universal Music, Lucian Grainge.

Also on the island, Simon keeps a £35-million super-

yacht, where he spent this past New Year’s Eve bobbing

about on the Caribbean seas with his fiancée and

(naturally) his ex-girlfriend, Sinitta.





NOW:

At 51, Simon Cowell boasts a personal

net worth of approximately $200 million,

securing him a Top 10 ranking on The

Telegraph’s list of the 100 Most

Powerful People in British Culture, and aTop 30 spot as one of the Forbes Top 100

Celebrities. In 2010, he won the special

honorary Founders Award at the 38th

International Emmy Awards in New York

for his “enormous cultural contributions” totelevision. Fittingly, the golden statuette was

handed to him by Rupert Murdoch, creator

of Fox TV and News Corporation CEO.

Now, as he prepares to bring The X

Factor to America in fall 2011, actingas both the show’s executive producer

and top-line judge, Simon Cowell is again

perfectly poised to hit TV audiences with

the latest wave of his massive

pop-cultural influence.





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