Profile: John C Malone

Factfile

**Age:** 73

**Appearance:** grey-haired, handsome, ageing cowboy meets WASP

**Newsworthiness:** the US cable tycoon has just bought Dublin's five-star Westin Hotel

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The “Darth Vader of deals” moniker, the comparison with a deadly swamp alligator lying in wait, the billionaire media mogul, the passionate philanthropist, the self-styled “simple man of the land”, the Yale scholar – just who is the real John C Malone? Any why has he suddenly developed a penchant ...