Piers morgan born rich

Morgan famously battled supermodel Naomi Campbell in court after she won a breach of confidentiality claim against the Mirror, which had published pictures of her leaving drug addiction treatment in early 2001.

The Appeal Court ordered her to pay the paper's £350,000 legal costs after overturning the High Court ruling, but that, too, was overturned by the Law Lords in May 2004 who reinstated the original decision and damages.

Undeterred, Morgan proved he was prepared to take on anyone, even the then-prime minister's wife, Cherie Blair, claiming in 2002 that she had tried to get him sacked. The claim was denied by Downing Street.

But it was Morgan's nod that led to the publication of photographs which allegedly showed British soldiers humiliating Iraqi prisoners of war in spring, 2004.

He continued to insist the photographs were genuine even after the British army had claimed they were fakes. The stubborn stance was to be the editor's undoing.

"I was frogmarched out," he said in an interview with The Times in April 2009. "It could have been done in a more dignified way, but it liberated me.

"I would probably be dead by now, considering the pace I was going at."

Since then, Morgan has been ever-present on TV screens, and has churned out several books.

At the age of seventeen he had a master plan for becoming the best known journalist in Britain. He’s been in the midst of media scandals, he’s interviewed some of the most famous celebrities and most powerful politicians in the world, and he’s judged the talents of hundreds of common folks. Arrogant, ambitious, and shameless…. so who is this media man? None other than Piers Morgan, of course…

Peirs Morgan Early Life

Piers Morgan was born in Sussex, England in 1965 to an Irish dentist who died when Morgan was only two years old. At birth, Morgan was named Piers Stefan O’Meara, but Morgan’s mother remarried after his father’s death, and Morgan adopted the surname Pugh-Morgan. Morgan and his stepfather were close, and Morgan, having never really known his birth-father, calls him ‘dad.’ His parents were middle-class English, running a pub and supporting Margaret Thatcher. When Morgan was 13, the family could no longer afford to send him to private school so he had to leave behind the classmates he knew. At his new school he was picked on and in true schoolboy style the ‘Pugh’ in his name was altered to ‘Puke.’

Morgan dropped the Pugh from his name later on, a move some have attributed to a desire to separate from his middle class roots, but that Morgan himself said was just because Pugh-Morgan was too long for a byline.

As a child, Morgan showed an early affinity for the media. As early as age seven he would sit at the table, devouring the daily newspapers, reading the headlines and discussing the day’s events with his parents. By the time he was a teenager, he was writing news articles – he even sold a piece to the Mid Sussex Times and then to Cricket Magazine at the age of 14.

“It gave me the real taste of the excitement of a byline,” he said of the sale.

It’s not too much of a surprise, then, that a few years later when the time to consider a career rolled around, Morgan had it set in his mind that he would become the most famous media person

American financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913)

This article is about the American financier. For other uses, see J. P. Morgan (disambiguation) and John Morgan (disambiguation).

John Pierpont Morgan Sr. (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., he was a driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidations in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century.

Over the course of his career on Wall