Former owner of Asian Babes and Readers’ Wives has hired lawyers to demand Wikipedia remove word from bio

Richard Desmond, the billionaire former owner of adult television channels and top-shelf magazines, has spent years having his own Wikipedia edited in a failed attempt to remove any suggestion he is a “pornographer”.

The former owner of the Daily Express and Channel 5, and one of Britain’s richest men, appears to have become fixated with his biography on the open-source encyclopedia. To this end, an account operating on behalf of Desmond has repeatedly edited the article to replace the description of him as a “pornographer” with the term “philanthropist”.

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