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Aldi dynasty continue to lead German rich list

Business & Money: 10 Oct 11
The best business to get into in Germany seems to be discount supermarkets - the owners of Aldi, Lidl and Kaufland again top the list of the country’s richest people. READ »

BMW pays big bonuses for bumper 2010

Business & Money: 12 May 11
In a sign of the soaring fortunes of the German auto industry, BMW is paying a hefty bonus to its workers after a two-year break in profit-sharing. READ »

Discount supermarket tycoons dominate billionaires list

Business & Money: 12 Oct 10
The founder of bargain-basement supermarket chain Aldi, Karl Albrecht, topped a list of Germany's richest people published Tuesday, with assets valued at €17.1 billion ($23.6 billion). READ »

Aldi founder Albrecht remains richest German

Business & Money: 11 Mar 10
Karl Albrecht, the founder of discount supermarket chain Aldi, remains Germany’s richest person, according to Forbes magazine rankings published on Thursday. READ »

Copycat jailed over BMW heiress sex-video blackmail plot

Society: 4 Nov 09
A former motor mechanic was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison on Tuesday for trying to blackmail BMW heiress and Germany’s richest woman, Susanne Klatten, out of €800,000 over purported sex tapes. READ »

Recession cuts ranks of German billionaires

Business & Money: 7 Oct 09
Germany's worst post-war recession has cut the ranks of the country's billionaires to 99 and the fortunes of those still making the grade have plummeted dramatically, according to a survey released this week. READ »

Larcenous lothario loots lovelorn ladies

Society: 21 Jul 09
The Bavarian authorities are holding a “marriage swindler” accused of fleecing more than €100,000 from four women over several years with false declarations of love, a police spokesman told The Local on Tuesday. READ »

BMW heiress blackmailed for third time over sex videos

Society: 17 Jul 09
Munich police confirmed on Friday that they are investigating a third case of sexual blackmail against BMW heiress Susanne Klatten after three men tried to filch some €800,000 from the 46-year-old for a sex tape. READ »

Copycat tries to blackmail BMW heiress again

National: 16 May 09
A man tried to blackmail BMW heiress Susanne Klatten out of €75,000 with an alleged sex video just two months after her former lover was jailed for doing the same thing, daily Bild reported Saturday. READ »

'Swiss Gigolo' jailed for blackmailing heiress

Society: 9 Mar 09
A smooth-talking con man known as the "Swiss Gigolo" was jailed for six years on Monday for blackmailing a string of super-rich lovers, including Germany's richest woman – BMW heiress Susanne Klatten. READ »

'Swiss gigolo' to go on trial for blackmailing BMW heiress

Society: 6 Mar 09
The 'Swiss gigolo' who seduced BMW heiress Susanne Klatten will face trial in Munich next week, charged with blackmailing a string of wealthy women out of millions of euros. READ »

Gigolo blackmailing BMW heiress to face trial by March

Society: 5 Dec 08
The jailed gigolo accused of blackmailing Germany’s richest woman will face a Munich court by March of 2009, daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday. READ »

BMW heiress opens up about gigolo blackmailer

Society: 21 Nov 08
Germany's richest woman said on Friday that turning in her blackmailing ex-lover was a difficult choice but was necessary to protect her family and defend women against similar situations in the future. READ »

Back to business for blackmailed BMW heiress Klatten

Society: 6 Nov 08
Germany's richest woman Susanne Klatten, who was recently blackmailed by an ex-lover, hit the news again on Thursday. But this time it was strictly business with a takeover worth almost a cool billion euros. READ »

BMW heiress Klatten blackmailed by gigolo

National: 1 Nov 08
Susanne Klatten, the richest woman in Germany and an heiress to the BMW fortune, paid out €7.5 million to a Swiss gigolo who threatened to release secretly-filmed movies of the two having sex. READ »

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