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Mr Nice is the autobiography of former drug dealer Howard Marks. [1] Published in 1996, it became an international bestseller due in large part to the humour and unabashed bravado the author uses to describe his life and the sheer scale of his drug deals involving, among others, the CIA, MI6, the IRA and the Mafia.
Howard Stanley Marks (born 1946) is an American investor and writer. He is the co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management , the largest investor in distressed securities worldwide. In 2022, with a net worth of $2.2 billion, Marks was ranked No. 1365 on the Forbes list of billionaires.
[citation needed] Marks was the main consultant for the film and for Ifans. The DVD includes a commentary by Howard Marks and a featurette in which Ifans impersonates Marks while both get intoxicated during a stand-up show, much to the delight of the crowd. Mr Nice was filmed in 2009 in Benidorm, Spain.
Howard Marks, pictured in February 2015, 14 months before he died from cancer [Press Association] He began by writing his memoirs, Mr Nice, which became a bestseller, was translated into several ...
Howard Marks' Oaktree is buying Chinese assets it says are unfairly depressed. The country has "great potential" as it tries to balance out its economy, the billionaire investor told Bloomberg.
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As partners, Knight and King produced "On the Cobbles" the story of Jimmy Stockin a renowned gypsy prize fighter, "Ossie – King of The Bridge" – the autobiography of Chelsea footballing legend Peter Osgood and "Grass" covering the exploits of major drug smuggler and Howard Marks' cohort Phil Sparrowhawk. In 2010 a copy of "Ossie – King of ...
Oaktree Capital co-founder and renowned investor Howard Marks -- speaking at the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit earlier this week in Hong Kong -- put forth a very clear idea of where...