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    Darius Guppy, a well known fraudster who tends to get into violent feuds. I think he's great fun. So let's type Darius, or as his friends know him: Darry.



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    Darius Guppy is a British expatriate who, together with Benedict Marsh, was convicted of fraud, theft and false accounting in February 1993. Guppy was jailed for staging a faked jewel robbery and claiming £1.8 million from the insurers, part of London's Lloyd's insurance market.[1] [2]

    Darius' mother was the author and singer Shusha Guppy, who died in March 2008.[3] On his father's side, he is a descendant of Lechmere Guppy, the naturalist who discovered the eponymous fish.

    Darius was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, Eton College, and Magdalen College, Oxford where he got a first class degree in History and French. In his second year, he became a member of the Piers Gaveston Society, as well as the Bullingdon Club.[4] He was the best man at Earl Spencer's wedding to model Victoria Lockwood, his first wife; Earl Spencer was his best man in return. Darius was a close friend of the Conservative MP Boris Johnson,[5] as well as Count Gottfried von Bismarck.

    The Daily Mail reports that Darius Guppy's acts of retribution are legendary since, according to Boris Johnson, he lives by a "Homeric code of honour, loyalty and revenge".[6] He brawled with the brother of Princess Diana, Earl Spencer, to defend the honour of his wife Patricia.[6] At university, he famously engaged in a feud with a landlord.[6] In 1990, he undertook to beat up a tabloid journalist for investigating his background.[6] The jewel robbery too was an act of vengeance, since Lloyd's ruined his father and the family fortune in their great financial crisis of 1988-96 which bankrupted many names.[7]
    From a review of his autobiography:

    The grotesque medium is not mentioned by Guppy in his long list of illustrious ancestors, which includes medieval clerics, tycoons from the industrial revolution and bushy-bearded Islamic scholars. Gupa, we learn, means "bright in battle", from a Saxon word. It is certainly a swashbuckling monicker, which the young Darius took to heart from his earliest days: for example, at the age of 11, he ruthlessly harangued people to buy Union Jack stickers on the Kings Road, with all the air of a military operation. He dreamed of martial glory, of winning, of getting rich. "Boldness and cheek were essential ingredients for success," he decided. Guppy felt trapped by the modern age and saw money was the only way of getting outside of it. Like many people of his background, he knew that many of the super-rich were only super-rich through bending the rules. But bending the rules also meant not getting caught - an important lesson from his schooldays. Never a good judge of people, he put his trust in a petty criminal Peter Risdon, who choreographed the robbery of pounds 1.8 million worth of gems from his New York hotel. Later Risdon developed a grudge against his toff employer and, picked up by the police on a separate matter, decided to shop Guppy in exchange for leniency. There can be little doubt the police loathed Guppy from the start, and that he encouraged them to loathe him. From the outset he started getting routine harassment from them, and papers and photographs confiscated from his house during searches were sold to newspapers from police sources. Unfortunately for Guppy, most people aren't much interested in his tales against the police (if you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas - as he discovered with Risdon). The means justify the ends: a popular moral ethic which, like much popular moral ethics, has little to do with law. His friends are as puzzled by this book as his enemies, and Guppy has the fatal talent of being more dangerous to his friends than his enemies - a curious feature in a man so preoccupied with loyalty.
    I think he sounds very much like a cp6, probably sx.
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    AHAHAHAHAHA oh sweetheart, you're fucking insane. <33

    Anyway, you left out the description of his wife, who is probably also an IEI:
    Patricia Guppy, a pretty, delicate blonde from Sunderland, who once ran an escort agency, is understood to have kept the alleged incident that sparked Guppy's fury secret for more than a decade because she did not wish to upset her husband.
    Locals speak of him as a rather menacing, egotistical man with an interest in martial arts and extreme pastimes such as diving with sharks. But he remains something of an enigma to them. And Guppy, 42, would like to keep it that way.
    He and Patricia prefer to socialise with a small and close circle of British expatriates including Charles Spencer's ex-wife, Victoria, a reformed drug addict, and her new husband Jonathan, a former Dior male model.Until recently, Earl Spencer, who spends part of the year in Cape Town, was part of their close-knit group.
    Patricia Guppy insists their marriage is as strong as ever - the couple recently celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary with a threeweek holiday in Istanbul. 'We're very happy,' she said last week at their home.
    However, friends are concerned about the fallout of the confrontation with Earl Spencer. One said: 'Patricia is freaked out by exposure. Her big concern is the kids.'
    She may be hoping that this is the last outing for Darius Guppy's violent alter ego.
    Interestingly, he used a quotation from a famous Sir Francis Bacon essay to start his autobiography: 'Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to it, the more ought law to weed it out.'
    The elusive Guppy appears to have learned nothing from his 17thcentury hero, who goes on to issue this dire warning: 'Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.'
    All quotes from this article, which is a good if long report on the whole Guppy/Spencer bust-up: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ly-Darius.html

    I feel like this is all a lead up to an excuse to post a Boris Johnson vid on this forum. And that is obviously a temptation I am unable to resist. Here's Boris talking about the esteemed Mr Guppy trying to lead him into a trap:
    [ame]http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=CcgrZs4GXv4[/ame]
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    I tend to think he has to be Beta, simply because I find his hilariously mad and quite amusing. Sorry, very un-PC. Quite the recreational drug user during his university days and a bit of a poet, as well as having a short and violent temper and a tendency to want to beat people up.



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    Smeared with blood and sweat, the two men grappled and thrashed around. The taller man groaned in pain from a fractured cheekbone and injuries to his ribs and nose as his attacker savagely kicked and punched him like someone possessed.

    As the violence escalated, three young children watched and cheered their father from the windows of their home.

    The son and three daughters of the other man could only look on in dumb horror as their father was battered into submission. It was an extraordinary and shocking scene. But all the more shocking given the identities of the combatants.

    This bloody confrontation was between the brother of Princess Diana, Earl Spencer, and his best friend, the convicted fraudster Darius Guppy. Guppy, who emerged the victor from the brawl, had deliberately lured his former friend, who had been his best man and provided &#163;250,000 bail after his arrest, to his South African home for a showdown.

    At stake was the honour of the wife Guppy adores and a bizarre accusation of treachery
    dating from more than a decade ago.

    Spencer's 'crime' - an allegation vehemently denied by the Earl - was to have attempted to seduce Guppy's wife Patricia while his friend was languishing behind bars. It was a betrayal that Guppy, who has known Spencer since they were 13-year-old Eton schoolboys, insisted required extreme retribution.

    Revenge has always been a dish relished by the disgraced Old Etonian. According to his old friend, Tory higher education spokesman Boris Johnson, he lives by the 'Homeric code of honour, loyalty and revenge'.

    Indeed, as we shall see, it was his thirst for revenge that led to Guppy being jailed in 1993 for staging a faked jewel robbery and fraudulently claiming &#163;1.8 million from insurers.

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    A wary Spencer, who had married his second wife Caroline 'Pidge' Freud in 2001, agreed to meet Darius in a public place, but his friend convinced him it would be better to keep it private and assured him he would be safe at his house.

    Patricia Guppy was away at a spa for the weekend when the Earl arrived at the house at lunchtime on May 21.

    According to friends of Guppy, Darius asked his friend for an explanation and the Earl insisted he had never made advances on Patricia. Guppy accused him of lying and began punching and kicking him on the lawn in front of his children, who are said to have been 'cheering from the window'.

    The attack left Spencer with cuts to his nose, a black eye, concussion and a fractured cheek bone.

    It ended only when the new husband of Spencer's ex-wife Victoria - who also lives in the area - climbed over the gates to the Guppy house after hearing the fight.

    ...

    Two days later Darius is understood to have written to Spencer accusing him again of sexually harassing his wife. To make sure he added insult to injury, 'friends' of Guppy let Earl Spencer's humiliation become public by briefing journalists and offering to show them Guppy's letter to Spencer.

    The Earl has made no comment about the allegations or the attack. But the dramatic rupture of his friendship with Guppy has astonished those who know them.

    The two were inseparable at Oxford during their wildest excesses, they were each other's best man and Spencer housed Guppy and his family when he was released from prison.

    But Guppy's acts of retribution are legendary. At university, he famously engaged in a feud with a landlord during which he made a six-hour abusive phone call and pushed fireworks through his target's letterboxes.

    Then, in 1990, there was the tabloid journalist who Guppy wanted to have beaten up (with the reluctant assistance of the bumbling Boris Johnson, who agreed to help discover the writer's address) for probing into his background.

    But perhaps his most famous vendetta - until this week - was against Lloyd's of London. Guppy, who was named after the Persian king Darius by his Iranian folk-singer mother, risked his place in top-drawer society by faking a jewel robbery in a New York hotel.

    He and fellow Oxford graduate Ben Marsh hired a stooge to tie them up and shoot a pillow so they could claim &#163;1.8 million insurance to avenge Guppy's father, who had lost all his money as a Lloyd's name.

    It was Charles Spencer who congratulated Guppy on his wedding day for fulfilling his prediction that he would be a millionaire or in Wormwood Scrubs by the age of 30.

    And it was Charles Spencer who was rewarded with thanks for his 'steadfast loyalty' in Guppy's lurid autobiography, Roll The Dice. But the bond between the two men has been shattered irrevocably by the violent scenes in the quiet Cape Town enclave of Constantia. The confrontation has also raised fresh questions about the mercurial Darius Guppy.

    Since his release from Ford Open Prison in February 1996, he has kept a low profile (apart from painting a Georgian mansion he bought in County Tipperary an interesting shade of lilac) and sought to escape his notoriety. It is perhaps inevitable that he ended up in South Africa, a popular refuge for a number of former villains over the years.

    ...

    However, friends are concerned about the fallout of the confrontation with Earl Spencer. One said: 'Patricia is freaked out by exposure. Her big concern is the kids.'

    She may be hoping that this is the last outing for Darius Guppy's violent alter ego.

    Interestingly, he used a quotation from a famous Sir Francis Bacon essay to start his autobiography: 'Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to it, the more ought law to weed it out.'

    The elusive Guppy appears to have learned nothing from his 17thcentury hero, who goes on to issue this dire warning: 'Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.'
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