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Paradise Papers: Which famous figures are named in leak of secret tax details?

  • <p>The Paradise Papers show the Prince’s Duchy of Cornwall estate secretly bought shares worth $113,500 in a Bermuda company that would benefit from a rule change concerning carbon markets. Charles lobbied to alter these agreements without disclosing his estate had an offshore financial interest in what he was promoting. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images) </p>
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    Prince Charles

    The Paradise Papers show the Prince’s Duchy of Cornwall estate secretly bought shares worth $113,500 in a Bermuda company that would benefit from a rule change concerning carbon markets. Charles lobbied to alter these agreements without disclosing his estate had an offshore financial interest in what he was promoting. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

  • <p>Newly-crowned F1 champion Lewis Hamilton was given a £3.3m VAT refund on the £16.5m Bombardier Challenger 605 luxury jet he imported into the Isle of Man in 2013. His spokesman insists “everything is above board” and no tax rules regarding the private and business use of the jet were breached. (Clive Mason/Getty Images) </p>
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    Lewis Hamilton

    Newly-crowned F1 champion Lewis Hamilton was given a £3.3m VAT refund on the £16.5m Bombardier Challenger 605 luxury jet he imported into the Isle of Man in 2013. His spokesman insists “everything is above board” and no tax rules regarding the private and business use of the jet were breached. (Clive Mason/Getty Images)

  • <p>Fiona Delany, Martin Delany and Patrick Houlihan, members of the hit BBC comedy Mrs Brown’s Boys, diverted more than £2m into an offshore tax-avoidance scheme, Paradise Papers documents show. They transferred their fees into companies in Mauritius and sent money back as loans. (Dominic Lipinski/PA Images) </p>
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    Mrs Brown’s Boys

    Fiona Delany, Martin Delany and Patrick Houlihan, members of the hit BBC comedy Mrs Brown’s Boys, diverted more than £2m into an offshore tax-avoidance scheme, Paradise Papers documents show. They transferred their fees into companies in Mauritius and sent money back as loans. (Dominic Lipinski/PA Images)

  • <p>The papers reveal £10m of HM Queen Elizabeth’s personal fortune generated through the Duchy of Lancaster was held offshore in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. (Samir Hussein/WireImage/via Getty Images) </p>
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    The Queen

    The papers reveal £10m of HM Queen Elizabeth’s personal fortune generated through the Duchy of Lancaster was held offshore in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. (Samir Hussein/WireImage/via Getty Images)

  • <p>Prominent Conservative Party donor Lord Ashcroft gave assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Punta Gorda Trust in Bermuda in 2000, according to the Papers. Other leaks suggest he retained his non-dom tax status while in the House of Lords, despite claiming to have become resident in the UK. (OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images) </p>
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    Lord Ashcroft

    Prominent Conservative Party donor Lord Ashcroft gave assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Punta Gorda Trust in Bermuda in 2000, according to the Papers. Other leaks suggest he retained his non-dom tax status while in the House of Lords, despite claiming to have become resident in the UK. (OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images)

  • <p>Wilbur Ross, U.S. commerce secretary, a top member of Donald Trump’s administration, has business links with Russian allies of President Vladimir Putin who are under US sanctions, the papers show. Ross has an interest in Navigator Holdings, which earns millions a year transporting oil and gas for Russian energy firm Sibur. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg/Getty Images) </p>
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    Wilbur Ross

    Wilbur Ross, U.S. commerce secretary, a top member of Donald Trump’s administration, has business links with Russian allies of President Vladimir Putin who are under US sanctions, the papers show. Ross has an interest in Navigator Holdings, which earns millions a year transporting oil and gas for Russian energy firm Sibur. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

  • <p>U2 singer Bono, who is listed by his real name Paul Hewson, is revealed to have been a part-owner of a shopping mall in the small town of Utena, Lithuania, after investing with Nude Estates, a company based in Malta. (Daniel Knighton/Getty Images) </p>
    7/13

    Bono

    U2 singer Bono, who is listed by his real name Paul Hewson, is revealed to have been a part-owner of a shopping mall in the small town of Utena, Lithuania, after investing with Nude Estates, a company based in Malta. (Daniel Knighton/Getty Images)

  • <p>Keira Knightley, the British-born star of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, is said to have invested in a Jersey-based real estate firm. (Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) </p>
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    Keira Knightley

    Keira Knightley, the British-born star of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, is said to have invested in a Jersey-based real estate firm. (Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

  • <p>Farhad Moshiri, is the new owner of Premier League Everton FC. The Iranian businessman sold his Arsenal stake in 2016 to buy nearly 50% of Everton – but the leaks suggest that his original Arsenal stake was funded by a “gift” from oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who owns 30.4% of Arsenal, raising the question of whether it is his money in Everton. (Alex Livesey/Getty Images) </p>
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    Farhad Moshiri

    Farhad Moshiri, is the new owner of Premier League Everton FC. The Iranian businessman sold his Arsenal stake in 2016 to buy nearly 50% of Everton – but the leaks suggest that his original Arsenal stake was funded by a “gift” from oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who owns 30.4% of Arsenal, raising the question of whether it is his money in Everton. (Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

  • <p>Rex Tillerson, the US secretary of state, is named in the leaked files as a director of an offshore firm, Marib Upstream Services Company, incorporated in Bermuda in 1997, and used in a multibillion-dollar oil and gas venture in Yemen. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) </p>
    10/13

    Rex Tillerson

    Rex Tillerson, the US secretary of state, is named in the leaked files as a director of an offshore firm, Marib Upstream Services Company, incorporated in Bermuda in 1997, and used in a multibillion-dollar oil and gas venture in Yemen. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

  • <p>Stephen Bronfman, a key political ally of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, has been caught up in the revelations. Bronfman, a major fundraiser for Trudeau, is linked to offshore schemes that may have cost the nation millions of dollars in taxes. (Hector Vivas/Getty Images) </p>
    11/13

    Justin Trudeau

    Stephen Bronfman, a key political ally of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, has been caught up in the revelations. Bronfman, a major fundraiser for Trudeau, is linked to offshore schemes that may have cost the nation millions of dollars in taxes. (Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

  • <p>Global pop icon Madonna was a stockholder, according to the report, in a “medical supply company in Bermuda” registered in 1997 and dissolved in 2013. (Andrew Lipovsky/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) </p>
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    Madonna

    Global pop icon Madonna was a stockholder, according to the report, in a “medical supply company in Bermuda” registered in 1997 and dissolved in 2013. (Andrew Lipovsky/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

  • <p>Colin Diamond, the business manager of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, established an offshore company in Mauritius called Helipad Plain to claim he was the “ultimate beneficial owner” of Hutchence’s estate, said to be worth $27 million. (Frans Schellekens/Getty Images) </p>
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    Michael Hutchence

    Colin Diamond, the business manager of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, established an offshore company in Mauritius called Helipad Plain to claim he was the “ultimate beneficial owner” of Hutchence’s estate, said to be worth $27 million. (Frans Schellekens/Getty Images)

<p>The Paradise Papers show the Prince’s Duchy of Cornwall estate secretly bought shares worth $113,500 in a Bermuda company that would benefit from a rule change concerning carbon markets. Charles lobbied to alter these agreements without disclosing his estate had an offshore financial interest in what he was promoting. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images) </p>
<p>Newly-crowned F1 champion Lewis Hamilton was given a £3.3m VAT refund on the £16.5m Bombardier Challenger 605 luxury jet he imported into the Isle of Man in 2013. His spokesman insists “everything is above board” and no tax rules regarding the private and business use of the jet were breached. (Clive Mason/Getty Images) </p>
<p>Fiona Delany, Martin Delany and Patrick Houlihan, members of the hit BBC comedy Mrs Brown’s Boys, diverted more than £2m into an offshore tax-avoidance scheme, Paradise Papers documents show. They transferred their fees into companies in Mauritius and sent money back as loans. (Dominic Lipinski/PA Images) </p>
<p>The papers reveal £10m of HM Queen Elizabeth’s personal fortune generated through the Duchy of Lancaster was held offshore in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. (Samir Hussein/WireImage/via Getty Images) </p>
<p>Prominent Conservative Party donor Lord Ashcroft gave assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Punta Gorda Trust in Bermuda in 2000, according to the Papers. Other leaks suggest he retained his non-dom tax status while in the House of Lords, despite claiming to have become resident in the UK. (OLI SCARFF/AFP/Getty Images) </p>
<p>Wilbur Ross, U.S. commerce secretary, a top member of Donald Trump’s administration, has business links with Russian allies of President Vladimir Putin who are under US sanctions, the papers show. Ross has an interest in Navigator Holdings, which earns millions a year transporting oil and gas for Russian energy firm Sibur. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg/Getty Images) </p>
<p>U2 singer Bono, who is listed by his real name Paul Hewson, is revealed to have been a part-owner of a shopping mall in the small town of Utena, Lithuania, after investing with Nude Estates, a company based in Malta. (Daniel Knighton/Getty Images) </p>
<p>Keira Knightley, the British-born star of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, is said to have invested in a Jersey-based real estate firm. (Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images) </p>
<p>Farhad Moshiri, is the new owner of Premier League Everton FC. The Iranian businessman sold his Arsenal stake in 2016 to buy nearly 50% of Everton – but the leaks suggest that his original Arsenal stake was funded by a “gift” from oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who owns 30.4% of Arsenal, raising the question of whether it is his money in Everton. (Alex Livesey/Getty Images) </p>
<p>Rex Tillerson, the US secretary of state, is named in the leaked files as a director of an offshore firm, Marib Upstream Services Company, incorporated in Bermuda in 1997, and used in a multibillion-dollar oil and gas venture in Yemen. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) </p>
<p>Stephen Bronfman, a key political ally of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, has been caught up in the revelations. Bronfman, a major fundraiser for Trudeau, is linked to offshore schemes that may have cost the nation millions of dollars in taxes. (Hector Vivas/Getty Images) </p>
<p>Global pop icon Madonna was a stockholder, according to the report, in a “medical supply company in Bermuda” registered in 1997 and dissolved in 2013. (Andrew Lipovsky/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) </p>
<p>Colin Diamond, the business manager of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, established an offshore company in Mauritius called Helipad Plain to claim he was the “ultimate beneficial owner” of Hutchence’s estate, said to be worth $27 million. (Frans Schellekens/Getty Images) </p>
Mark Dorman

The private business dealings of Prince Charles’s Duchy of Cornwall estate have been exposed through the Paradise Papers.

His is the latest high profile name to be linked with the huge leak of tax avoidance documents, following earlier revelations relating to his mother, the Queen, F1 champion Lewis Hamilton and three cast members of hit BBC comedy Mrs Brown’s Boys.

While the Queen may have had little or no idea of the £10m of her private money invested in an offshore tax haven, the Paradise Papers leak shows just how widespread the practice is.

Despite successive UK governments and world bodies pledging to tackle the issue, the super-rich are still able to siphon their money – perfectly legally – into tax avoidance schemes to ensure that they get a lot richer every year.