Nicholas Van Hoogstraten has made headlines in newspapers and on television for decades, ever since he became a millionaire at the age of 22 and continued to defend his business empire with terrifying ruthlessness, Sign up to our newsletter to get the latest Sussex news straight to your inbox every day as well as all the latest breaking news. Low-level lighting had been installed on the roof, where there was to be a garden, and there was space for a fountain below. [32][33], Van Hoogstraten was not held guilty of Raja's murder or manslaughter under English criminal law, which requires a jury to be "certain so as to be sure of guilt" rather than operating on balance of probabilities. If that's not enough, multiple other signs warn of "shooting in progress", "dogs running free" and CCTV being in operation. Van Hoogstraten (who now goes by the name Nicholas von Hessen) is enormously wealthy. Yet the golden domes glittering above the trees are completely out of tune with any British architectural tradition. Take a short drive over the East Sussex border and you might stumble across an incredible half-built mansion. You may want to decorate your house in glitter, I may want to do mine out as a Tardis. It doesn't look like anything has happened here for a long time. 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Designed for British multi-millionaire Nicholas van Hoogstraten, one of the wealthiest people in Sussex, Hamilton Place is something else. "What else am I supposed to do?" Local residents complained it was a disgrace Hamilton Palace was being left to rot. '," he said. [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. However, in 2005, Rajas family successfully sued Hoogstraten and were awarded 6 million by Mr Justice Lightman, who found on the balance of probabilities the recruitment of the two thugs was for the purpose of murdering Mr Raja and not merely frightening or hurting him.. [10] The enormous edifice is intended to house his private collection of art, currently stored in Switzerland, and includes a marble mausoleum he intends for himself. He was released on appeal and cleared at retrial. Uppermost in my mind is saving money, of course. That's why I'm known as the letter of last resort. It is a clear message: do not try and come in. 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 grotesque creation. He began his property business in the Bahamas with an initial investment of 1,000 realised from the sale of his stamp collection. At around the same time he became friends with Tiny Rowland, who was then in charge of the London and Rhodesian Mining Company. View our online Press Pack. At the age of 22, he was jailed for four years for ordering a grenade attack on a rabbi whose son allegedly owed him cash. To the anger of the local community, work on the mansion halted in 2001. [13] "I ran Wormwood Scrubs when I was in there", he told Jane Kelly of The Sunday Times in January 2006. It was even dubbed "The Ghost House of Sussex", our sister site SussexLive reports. 5K views 4 months ago Just outside Uckfield, in East Sussex is Hamilton Palace, often named "The Devil's Palace", because of the person that owns it. 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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. Twice-married Mr Van Hoogstraten - who has changed his name to NicholasAdolf von Hessen - handed over many of his UK businesses to his children in 2002 after he was jailed for hiring a hitman to kill former business partner Mohammed Sabir Raja. Others have gone further. "They all know so I'm not hiding anything," he says of his girlfriends. Nicholas van Hoogstraten (born Nicholas Marcel Hoogstraten; 25 February 1945) is a self-made British businessman and real estate magnate.. Van Hoogstraten is known for his business empire as well as his controversial life story: in 1968, he was convicted and sent to prison for paying a gang to attack a business associate. That's obviously part of it but it's not uppermost in my mind. Mugabe's British henchman: One of our worst slum landlords , he built a monstrous mansion in Sussex and had a rival murdered. But there is a definite sense of unease. Photo credit should read: Steve Parsons/PA Wire, A second building on the estate a short distance away from the main house, Nicholas van Hoogstraten, now Nicholas von Hessen in 1967 (L) and in 2020 (R). I wouldn't say we do it for ecological reasons. Over the past couple of decades, he has been involved in widely reported disputes with neighbours over the huge estate. At the time of the documentary, he had four girlfriends and lived a "secret location" in Hove while spending his evenings working at the hotel. Asked if he has been happy with what has been produced as a result of these interviews, he says "Largely, yes. [15] Frequently interviewed in the Courtlands Hotel in Hove, it is a property with which he has "close connections", but which is legally owned by his children. 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And I'm an expert in arranging things by remote control. According to evidence given in court by Sylvia Braunstein, the wife of Braunstein senior, Hoogstraten had announced during a threatening altercation at the Braunsteins' home, where he had regularly dined: "I'm a Fascist, and a Nazi, didn't you know that? 9 talking about this. Before the hearing began, Mr Hamilton had requested a reporting restriction banning the publication of his name, on the basis it could damage his reputation. His fortune has been placed as high as 800 million and built on property, mines, art, farms, shares and money-lending. But its just as brave to try and build a palace as it is to build a glass pavilion. The building is still unfinished. Thinking Hoogstraten had "built up a picture of himself as a sinister international figure", he believed Hoogstraten was little more than "a child, a Walter Mitty character who will grow out of all this nonsense". 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. With me, I'm sure you know, you have to put up with it or f**k off, doesn't matter who you are. On Buzzlearn.com, Nicholas is listed as a successful Businessman who was born in the year of 1945. 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. It's a disgrace that it's just going to ruin. When Raja answered the door to them, a fight broke out. Nicholas van Hoogstraten 's Hamilton Palace in Sussex is a folly - a colossal country house begun in 1985. Marten, 35, and Gordon, 48, have been travelling around the UK by taxi since their car was found on fire on January 5. 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