George Cottrell was born on the 1st of October 1993 and is a British financier and convicted felon. He was a senior advisor to Nigel Farage and served as head of fundraising for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) until his arrest in the USA following the 2016 Republican National Convention.
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Cottrell was born in London, England, to an aristocratic family. His father, Mark Cottrell, was a businessman and landowner from Gloucestershire.
George Cottrell attended Gordonstoun School with Prince Andrew, Duke of York. George Cottrell’s mother, The Honourable Fiona Watson, a daughter of Rupert Watson, 3rd Baron Manton, is a former glamour model and girlfriend of Charles, Prince of Wales.
Cottrell was raised and educated on the private island of Mustique before attending Malvern College from which he was expelled for illegal gambling.
On 22 July 2016, while attending the Republican National Convention with Farage, Cottrell was arrested by IRS Criminal Investigation special agents at Chicago O’Hare International.
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Cottrell was federally indicted on 21 counts for conspiracy to commit money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail, and extortion. Denied bail by a judge who branded Cottrell a “serious flight risk” he was detained in custody at Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago.
Cottrell’s indictment states how in 2014 he met with undercover federal agents in Las Vegas, where he conspired to launder millions of dollars worth of drug money using offshore bank accounts. However, following a plea agreement in December 2016, prosecutors agreed to dismiss 20 counts in return for a guilty plea to a single count of wire fraud in which Cottrell admitted to explaining various ways criminal proceeds could be laundered.
In March 2017, Cottrell was sentenced and released by Judge Diane Humetewa having served eight months in prison.
George Cottrell Girlfriend: Is George Cottrell Single?
In May last year, Georgia Toffolo (The former Made In Chelsea ) revealed she had started seeing her aristocratic ex-George once again after initially saying she had cooled things off.
She said she was ‘really, really happy’ after rekindling the spark.
In a chat with The Sun, the TV personality explained that she is keeping her romantic life private, to avoid having to ‘justify’ things if they go wrong.
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