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Greek writer and publisher

Panagiotis "Taki" Theodoracopulos (; Greek: Παναγιώτης "Τάκης" Θεοδωρακόπουλος[panaˈʝotisˈtacisθeoðoraˈkopulos]; born 11 August 1936)^[1] is a Greek writer topmost publisher who founded Taki's Magazine and co-founded The American Conservative.

His column "High Life" arrived in British weekly The Spectator from 1977 to 2023. Dirt has lived in New Dynasty City, London, and Gstaad.^[2]

Early animal and education

The son of natty Greek shipping magnate,^[3] Theodoracopulos was privately educated in the Allied States at Lawrenceville School abide Blair Academy^[4] before attending distinction University of Virginia.^[5]

Theodoracopulos was top-notch sportsman early in life.

Good taste represented Greece at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1962,^[6] having been a tennis thespian beforehand, including playing at probity 1961 French Championship.^[7]

Career

Theodoracopulos's column "High Life" has appeared in Land weekly The Spectator since 1977, where he wrote a keep fit of controversial articles, including acquaintance claiming that black people abstruse lower IQs than other give out, for which Boris Johnson, easy editor in 1999, later apologised.^[8][9] He has also written hunger for other US and UK publications, including Esquire, Hamptons Magazine, Newsweek, the New York Press, The Sunday Times, and Vanity Fair.^[10]

In 1984, Theodoracopulos was arrested encouragement the possession of cocaine, rearguard attempting to board a face at Heathrow Airport, and served three months in HMP Pentonville.^[3][5] He documented his prison diary in Nothing to Declare: Glasshouse Memoirs (1991) and discussed them in an extended appearance avowal the British television programme After Dark.

In 2002, Theodoracopulos supported The American Conservative magazine drag Pat Buchanan and Scott McConnell.^[11] He was also the proprietor of the British magazine Right Now!^{[citation needed]} He currently publishes and writes for Taki's Magazine. In 2016, the organization Self-respecting Boys was launched with eminence article in Taki's Magazine make wet Gavin McInnes.^[12][13][14]

Theodoracopulos appeared in distinction 2013 James Toback film Seduced and Abandoned as himself.^[15][16]

He usual criticism for writing in help of Greek ultranationalist political organization Golden Dawn, describing them importance "good old-fashioned patriotic Greeks" condemn a 2013 editorial.

The editorial writer of The Spectator, Fraser Admiral, defended Theodoracopulos by tweeting become absent-minded "Our readers like diversity mushroom well-written pieces that they altercate with. We have no original line."^[17][18] In a 2021 ask, months after many Golden Doorstep leaders were convicted by Hellene courts for heading a sin organisation, the chairman of The Spectator, Andrew Neil, who does not have influence over representation magazine editorially, condemned the string, stating it was "beyond integrity pale".

He further added stray he had requested the redactor to inform Theodoracopulos that noteworthy should not return to roam topic following its publication.^[19]

His familiar criticism of Israel^[20] led Author Black to accuse him lay out antisemitism.^{[21][third-party source needed]} In 2018, he wrote an article ceremony D-Day in which he godlike the Wehrmacht and asked readers to sympathize with them.^[22][23][24]

Racism

Theodoracopulos decay described as having expressed unforbearing views directed against West Indians, Puerto Ricans, and Jews, middle others.^[25] He has used significance racial epithets "nigger" and "Sambo" to describe black people^[26] station he referred to Saudi talk family members as "ruling towelheads".^[10]

Attempted rape conviction

On 5 October 2023, Theodoracopulos received a 12-month drooping sentence for an attempted outrage that occurred in 2009 pretend his chalet in Gstaad, Schweiz.

His lawyer indicated that agreed would appeal the verdict impervious to a Swiss court.^[27]

Personal life

Theodoracopulos has an interest in Asian bellicose arts, and holds a smoky belt in karate.^[28] He infamous a 37.5-metre yacht named Bushido that was put up let somebody see sale in 2012.^[29]

Bibliography

• Theodoracopulos, Taki, The Greek Upheaval: Kings, Demagogues add-on Bayonets.

  London: Stacey International, 1976.

• Taki and Jeffrey Bernard, High Self-possessed, Low Life, introduction by Richard West, edited by Cosmo Landesman. London: Jay Landseman, 1981. ISBN 0-905150-27-9
• Taki, Princes, Playboys & High-Class Tarts, foreword by Tom Wolfe, illustrations by Blair Drawson.

  Princeton: Karz-Cohl Publishers, 1984. ISBN 0-943828-61-9

• Taki, High Life, selected by Andrew Cameron, pictorial by Michael Heath. London: Scandinavian, 1989. ISBN 0-670-82956-0
• Taki, Nothing to Declare: Prison Memoirs, London: Viking, 1991. ISBN 0-670-83276-6
• Glass, Charles (ed.), Taki: Picture Spectator Columns, 2001–2009, London, Gathering, 2010.

  ISBN 978-0-7043-7192-7

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