- Capital: € one hundred twenty million
- Age: 53
- Born: 12/20/1966
- Country of origin: Germany
- Source of wealth: Entrepreneurs
- Last updated: 2023
Short introduction
Marcus Prinz von Anhalt is a German businessman and nightclub proprietor whose steeply-priced life-style ends in a few insurance withinside the German yellow press.
Early life
Prince of Anhalt changed into born on December 20, 1966 in Pforzheim to a rich own circle of relatives as Marcus Frank Adolf Eberhardt. Prince of Anhalt claims that his dad and mom owned a jewellery shop earlier than their commercial enterprise changed into declared bankrupt and the own circle of relatives misplaced big quantities in their wealth. Eberhardt held many roles on the age of thirteen and left faculty on the age of sixteen to finish an apprenticeship as a butcher. He based a cleansing service, which changed into a subsidiary of the butcher, and obtained a complete earnings of DM 6,000 on the age of sixteen. He finished similarly schooling as a cook, opened numerous eating places and began out an indoors layout commercial enterprise.
Career
Eberhardt has similarly diverse his employer via way of means of starting numerous desk dance bars and gentlemen`s golf equipment withinside the United States. He later offered numerous brothels and changed into nicknamed “Red Light King”. After this investment, Eberhardt changed into charged with cash laundering, tax fraud and human trafficking.
With over twenty brothels and night time golf equipment, it’s far one in all the most important and maximum seen brothel proprietors in Germany. He has served 4 years in jail for human trafficking and tax evasion. He claims to be a “triple digit” millionaire who owns approximately forty vehicles and actual property in Los Angeles (a villa in Bel Air that he stocks with Zsa Zsa Gabor and Frédéric Prince of Anhalt), Fort Lauderdale, Pforzheim, St. Gallen, Dubai and Monaco owns, and has 12 bodyguards and 25 servants.
In 2006, he offered his call for numerous million US bucks while he changed into followed via way of means of Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, the husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, who had obtained his call thru adoption. The adoption and the alternate of call did now no longer confer an real name or the Aristocracy. “Prince of Anhalt” is a surname (literally: Prince of Anhalt) and now no longer a name below the German legal guidelines with which the previous the Aristocracy of the united states of america changed into abolished in 1919. In addition, the Anhalt own circle of relatives does now no longer consist of Marcus Prinz von Anhalt as a member.
He likes to name himself “Prinz Germany”. His followed brothers consist of Oliver Prinz von Anhalt, Michael Prinz von Anhalt and Markus Maximilian Prinz von Anhalt. His adoptive sister is Francesca Hilton, the stepdaughter of his adoptive father and the born daughter of his adoptive mother. In 2008 he prepared the “Royal Race”, a excursion with high-priced vehicles and outstanding drivers thru Europe. Pamela Anderson changed into his companion withinside the race. In February 2009, he changed into visible having lunch together along with her in Los Angeles. When Zsa Zsa Gabor misplaced a great quantity to Bernie Madoff`s Ponzi software in 2009, he helped with a take a look at for $ 6 million.
Career highlights
In November 2014, Marcus Prinz von Anhalt changed into once more sentenced to jail. Prince von Anhalt changed into imprisoned for 2 years for the duration of the enchantment towards the judgment. The 4-yr jail sentence changed into primarily based totally on costs of tax evasion and tax fraud. The public prosecutor had accused Prince of Anhalt of tax evasion of 1.five million euros. The prosecutor had furnished an estimate of the economic harm to the tax government via way of means of arresting 747,000 euros and some other try at tax evasion of 820,000 euros.
In particular, the Anhalt public prosecutor alleged that he had declared the personal use of his 14 luxurious vehicles (with a complete fee of at the least 1 million euros) and holidays in Las Vegas as expert and commercial enterprise costs for the tax government. Von Anhalt argued that “his glamorous life-style” changed into a part of his process as a “TV star”, that’s why he most effective used and defined his luxurious vehicles for “representative” reasons: riding in my Porsche, Ferrari and Rolls-Royce and touring to a display in Las Vegas had most effective expert reasons. Von Anhalt additionally attempted to persuade the choose and the general public prosecutor that it need to were unintended if he had dedicated tax evasion due to the fact he did now no longer completely apprehend German tax legal guidelines on the time.
“I realize that German tax legal guidelines are extraordinarily complex and perhaps even the maximum complex withinside the world.” Some humans can apprehend German tax legal guidelines, however he`s now no longer one in all them; however he is aware of the way to efficaciously manipulate a brothel. The judges did now no longer trust in Anhalt`s statements and in the end imposed a 4-yr jail sentence. Von Anhalt formerly said that “he sees no crime in his case” and that the quantities he claims to have taken from the tax government are “petty” and “ridiculous” thinking about that “his brothels” and disco- Clubs generate double-digit hundreds of thousands in revenue.
Famous quotes
“I realize that German tax legal guidelines are extraordinarily complex and perhaps even the maximum complex withinside the world”