Shiraz Corp.

Shiraz Corp. (Shiraz Corparation) is an international enterainmant, cosmetics and luxary goods giant.The company was first established in 1993, starting with the first major payement recieved by Dana Shiraz.The payement was due to Dana apearing on the cover of Vanity Fair Maganazine in 1993, a cheque signed for $800 000 (£410 000).

Dana also apeared on other magazine covers: Vogue, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, ELLE

Early Life of The Comapny
In 1993 after being paid $800 000, Shiraz decided to deposit the money into a saving account, this was untouched until December, when Shiraz apeared on the I Love Louis Claus a campain of Louis Vuitton Luggage. Shiraz reportedly was paid $1.3 million for the campain, a record breaking amount for a first time model for LVMH.

After the $1.3 million was entered into the savings account Shiraz was given a role in mega movies, Screan If You Wanna Die!, Screan If You Wanna Die 2, Screan If You Wanna Die 3. For all 3 films Shiraz was pad $12 million dollars.

Thus making the total of Dana's savings account worth $14.1 million dpllars.

Inherritance
On 17th January 1997 Shiraz's father was murderd in a mine explosion in Ghana. From this Shiraz inherrited $6 million dollars from her fathers stake in now cosmetics giant, L'Oreal.
Shiraz no longer owns a stake in the company.

After the death of Shiraz's mother, who was divorced to Shiraz's father 5 years into the marriage, Shiraz inherrited 2 assets. A $3 million dollar town house in New York and a Mansion in York, England. Shiraz put the mansion up for sale and it sold for £2 million pounds.

Later Life of The Company
In 2000 Shiraz Corp. was estimated at $20 000 000.

Shiraz was very interested in diamonds. Due to this Shiraz invested a 6% stake in Jewler's Tiffany & Co. for $16 000 000. This leaving Dana with $4 million in the savings account.
After apearing on over 5 covers of fashion magazines in the space of 6 months, Shiraz gained another $7 000 000.
With $9 million dollars to spare, before going bankcrupt, Shiraz invested in British jewlers' Boodles & Dunthorne. Shiraz bought a 20% share in the company.

In two years Shiraz gained $68 million dollars from investments with jewlers. At the height of Shiraz's wealth, ($70 000 000), an offer came from private cosmetics company Bourjois. The company went on sale due to the owner dying. Bourjois was on sale for $100 000 000. Though dana could not afford it, she took a loan from HSBC bank.A loan for $20 million, as Dana had $10 million in another ofshore account.

As dana now owned the company, and still had money coming in from from Tiffany & Co. and Boodles, the focus was on how to improve Bourjois.
3 years later the bank was paid back with interest, letting Dana sell 50% of the company for $200 000 000 to Estee Lauder. Later Shiraz sold the remaing percentage for $500 000 000 to L'Oreal.

Totaling $800 000 000 Shiraz was the wealthiest residant of Switzerland.
Wealth
In 2002 Shiraz Corp. was estimated by Forbes. to be worth $2 billion dollars. After years passed by Shiraz did more covers, films and more investments, thus making the total net worth of Shiraz Corp at $18 billion dollars.

Shiraz's Private wealth was $13.2 billion making Shiraz the th richest person alive.

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