Jack Dellal is a London

London

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-based property investor reportedly worth GBP £480 million in 2009. It was £580 million in 2008. These recent figures were significantly lower than a 2005 estimate by The Evening Standard, which ranked Dellal as a billionaire

Billionaire

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. His company, the property group Allied Commercial Holdings, financed the purchase of Shell-Mex House in 2002 and sold it in 2007.

Dellal was a banker in the 1970s. He owned the Dalton Barton bank, which he sold for £58 million. He set up Allied Commercial in 1974 with Stanley Van Gelder, with whom he worked for over forty years. One of their deals was the flip of central London's Bush House, which added £75 million to his fortune in a period of six months. He was said to have invested up to £100m in London's Dolphin Square

Dolphin Square

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.

Dellal was born in Manchester

Manchester

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 to Baghdadi Jews

Baghdadi Jews

Baghdadi Jews, also known as Iraqi Jews, are Jewish emigrants from Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, who fled religious persecution and formed immigrant communities in their new homelands...

 Sulman Dellal and Charlotte Shashoua, expatriates, and educated at that city's Heaton Moor

Heaton Moor

Heaton Moor is a suburb located in Stockport, Greater Manchester, in North West England. It is one of the Four Heatons and borders onto Heaton Chapel, Heaton Norris and Heaton Mersey...

 College. He and second wife Ruanne have two children. From a previous marriage, he has seven children (six daughters, one son) including the film directors Jasmine

Jasmine Dellal

Jasmine Dellal is a British-born Film director and producer. She was born and raised in Great Britain, studied in the United States and has often visited India, where her grandmother lives. She speaks Spanish, French, and English. She received her Bachelors Degree in French and Spanish language &...

 and Gaby Dellal

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, and the businessman Guy Dellal.

His nickname, "Black Jack," derives from his notorious love of gambling. Dellal's son, Guy Dellal, who was a director of Allied Commercial Holdings, is an investment partner of Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz.

In memory of his daughter "Suzie," he founded the Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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in 1989.