Felix Dennis, Billionaire Maxim Publisher, Confesses To Murder, Then Blames It On The Wine

In an interview with The Times of London's Ginny Dougary, billionaire publishing mogul Felix Dennis admits to killing a man 25 years ago. From the interview:

He looks so intense that I ask him whether he's ever fought with a man over a woman. "I've killed a man," he says. What? "I've killed a man." What do you mean, you've killed a man? "I killed him." Does everyone know you've killed a man? "No, and they'll never find out, either." Are you kidding me? Are you winding me up? Where? In what country? "I killed him. That's all you need to know. I killed him."

Oh Felix, you're having me on. "No." Promise me. Swear to God... "He hurt her and I told him to stop and he kept on." What did it feel like, then? "He hurt her." What did you do? "Pushed him over the edge of a cliff." In the Caribbean? "Don't matter where it was. He wouldn't let her alone. She told him to stop. I told him to stop. Many people told him to stop. Wouldn't stop. Kept on and on and on. Made her life a living misery: beat her up, beat up her kids, wouldn't let her alone, kept on, kept on - weren't even his kids, so in the end, I had a little meeting with him, pushed him over the edge of a cliff. Weren't 'ard."

Are you sure you want to be telling me this? "Don't care. Anybody harms one of mine... if they harm one of mine, they'd better know what they're doing. And they'd always be warned. I wouldn't attack anybody without reason. I'll attack nobody without reason. Without trying again and again to bring this thing to a much more satisfactory and sensible, more rational conclusion. But if they keep harming one of mine, then I have no option."

Although Gougary pressured Dennis to retract the statement, he insisted it was true, forcing Gougary to print the admission despite receiving the following next-day retraction blaming it on too much wine:

The next day, he sent a note by e-mail thanking me for a really enjoyable afternoon and evening but suggesting "you should forget one particular episode I recounted to you after the third or fourth bottle in the conservatory".

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Read more about Felix at his official website.

Comments

[Trueheart]

Isn't it always that 3rd or 4th bottle of wine shared between two people that opens secret doors and makes you wish you had a time machine the next morning?

Am wondering if this reporter went first to the police with the story, or went right to press? Was there a tape recording of the interview? What would you do if you were present at a drunken murder confession? There must have been a legal consult prior to publication--British libel laws are fairly strict.

[manndan]

This sounds like an episode from Just Shoot Me.

[marcain]

I believe it's the truth. The magazine does well already. It isn't necessary to create buzz and he's a billionaire and has the illusionary perception of being untouchable. And he knows he didn't say enough to be charged. And if it's investigated he could deny it and say it was to be provocative and create buzz for the magazine. But I 95% believe he's telling the truth.

[groovychaos]

mischa needs a sandwich....or bubbles

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[rpence]

MAXIM=the publishing world's version of penile enhancement pills.

Fucked up, mean-spirited, thoroughly misogynist magazine that degrades both women and men.

[PigsOnSoma]

Maxim must be doing really poorly, for such a stunt.

[NewRiver]

Ah, dontyajustlove free publicity???

[luckyoldson]

It's bullshit.

[qdog112]

Hillary is that you?

[FalconerHK]

It's me, Vincent.

[Ginko]

It is very unkind to make jokes over someone's suicide. Please, try some class.

[Xander]

I don't get why people are saying he's "stupid". Either he's lying, but now has achieved some buzz about him (and his magazine), or else he's not. Even if he's not lying, he didn't say where, he didn't say exactly when, he didn't say who, he essentially said nothing. You can't convict a man of murdering an unknown person.

[Boris]

THIS guy publishes a magazine? I was sure it was Dr. Who.

[joebaggadonuts]

If he were the woman it could have been self defense, eh?

[gcallaghan]

Dougary,

Please deliver a case of that wine to each White House insider and bring your notebook. You'll hear stories that make Dennis' sound like Disney.

[BigCheese]

Disney was no angel either.

[Zankee]

Just goes to show: Stupid is as Stupid does...!

[lowry99]

he's probably telling the truth, but what's funny is how at the same time he's pretending he's all tough he's admitting that he just tricked the guy and pushed him off a cliff. That's not exactly John McClain action.