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"Master of Malice: The Ghermezians put an end to Bill Grosvenor's 'news tips'"
Alberta Report
July 3, 1989 , Pg. 19-20
By Tom Philip and Glenn Kubish
Edmonton Reporters know all about William (Bill) Grosvenor's "news
tips." The invariably concern the Ghermezian family, developers of
West Edmonton Mall, and they always have something bad to say about
the Ghermezians and their company, Triple Five Corporation. "Hi, it's
Bill Grosvenor," goes a typical call. "I've just persuaded the British
authorities to cancel the Leeds project." A few phone calls and the
"story" inevitably turns out to be false. But other Grosvenor claims
are downright defamatory - a favorite is that the Ghermezians are
selling drugs in the video arcade at West Edmonton Mall - and
Grosvenor doesn't just make them to Edmonton reporters, with whom he
has exhausted whatever credibility he might once have had. Grosvenor,
like the Ghermezians, has expanded his operations to Europe, where he
has made his malicious comments to newspaper reporters and businessmen
who don't know any better than to believe him.
The Ghermezians - brothers Raphael, Bahman, Eskander and Nader - fear
Grosvenor may have done significant damage to their business ventures
in Europe, where they are negotiating to replicate West Edmonton Mall
with developments in Leeds, England and Oberhausen, West Germany. Yet
they did little about it until an Alberta Report story last month
quoted Grosvenor admitting he intends "to use all means at my disposal
anywhere in the world to put the Ghermezians out of business." The
Ghermezians cited the story, which detailed Grosvenor's methods and
motives, in obtaining an interim injunction from Mr. Justice D.R.
Matheson of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta two weeks ago. It
prevents Grosvenor from making "any statement intending to prejudice
the minds of the public" against the Ghermezians, and from
communicating with anyone doing business with the family. A few days
later they obtained a similar injunction from a court in West Germany,
where Triple Five is negotiating to build a $6-billion World Tourist
Centre in the north Rhine city of Oberhausen.
The Ghermezians backed their application for the gag order with
stories from Alberta Report and the West German newspaper Die Zeit.
Alberta Report has also obtained numerous letters, court documents,
newspaper articles - even Grosvenor's own resume - dating back to
1970, revealing that Grosvenor, 48, has a criminal record for assault
and extortion, that he was diagnosed at Riverview Psychiatric Hospital
in British Columbia in 1973 as suffering from a paranoid personality
disorder, and that his harassment of the Ghermezians is only the
latest in a 20-year series of vendettas against corporations and
individuals, including leading figures of the British Columbia
legislature and judiciary. The documents also reveal a remarkable
willingness on the part of some newspapers to accept Grosvenor at face
value. The Edmonton Journal, in particular, has described him over the
years as a "consultant," an "import-export consultant" and "president
of an international management consulting firm," lending Grosvenor a
credibility which his history shows is not deserved.
William David Michael Grosvenor's career as a self-described opponent
of graft and corruption began shortly after he arrived in Toronto (he
says from England) in the mid-1960s, and it got off to an inauspicious
start. According to a Vancouver Sun story about Grosvenor in July
1970, Grosvenor was fined $50 in April 1967 for assaulting a security
guard who was attempting to eject him from a bank he was picketing
over alleged "irregularity." At about the same time, Grosvenor claimed
credit for uncovering wrongdoing in the affairs of Prudential Finance
Corp., an Ontario company that collapsed owing creditors $20 million.
But then-Finance minister Mitchell Sharp told parliament that
Grosvenor had "revealed nothing of value." Indeed, Mr. Sharp believed
that Grosvenor, who describes himself in his resume as "a registered
expert on fraudulent bankruptcies with the RCMP," had probably been
fired by Prudential's auditors. In 1968, after a brief stint with an
accounting firm in Halifax (where he changed his name from Gruber),
Grosvenor left for Prince Rupert, B.C., where he found work with
accountant Odd Eidsvik. A source claims Mr. Eidsvik soon became
disenchanted with Grosvenor's work and cut his pay in half.
It was while living in Prince Rupert that Grosvenor discovered a new
avenue for pursuing his many grievances: the courts. In February 1970,
Grosvenor charged Prince Rupert MLA William Murray and provincial
court Judge W.N. Poole under the B.C. Companies Act with failing to
file an annual return for companies of which he claimed they were
directors. A district judge promptly threw out the charges, noting
that Grosvenor had failed to make even a prima facie case that Mr.
Murray and Judge Poole were directors of the companies in question -
but not before the story was picked up and prominently displayed by
the Vancouver Province, which printed the news of the charges without
comment. At about the same time, Grosvenor charged the local Bank of
Montreal with forgery. Again the case was dismissed, with Judge J.T.
Harvey labelling Grosvenor a "master of malice" for bringing an action
against a bank that had intended only to spare him the embarrassment
of having a cheque bounce.
All told, Grosvenor brought seven court cases in less than a year
while living in Prince Rupert. Four never got to trial, two were
dismissed and one ended with Grosvenor being ordered to pay a
counter-claim larger than the amount owed him. In July 1970, Mr.
Justice A.B. Macfarlane of the B Supreme Court invoked a law designed
to prevent abuse of the courts to prohibit Grosvenor from instituting
any new legal proceedings in the province without the permission of a
court. In the meantime, Grosvenor himself had faced charges. In April
1970 hewas convicted of attempting to extort $50 from Prince Rupert
businessman Campbell McLeod by threatening to prosecute him under the
B.C. Companies Act. He was sentenced to one day in jail and fined
$400.
Shortly thereafter Grosvenor moved to suburban Van General Motors
Canada Ltd. (GM), manufacturers of the problem-plagued Firenza. In May
1973 he and a woman named Hendrika Peeters, with whom he shared a New
Westminster address, stationed themselves outside a Vancouver GM
dealership and attempted to steersociation (APA), prompting APA
president Phil Edmonston to ask B.C.'s attorney- general to
investigate whether Grosvenor had been "soliciting money or carrying
out other undesirable activities in our name."
Grosvenor dropped out of sight during the mid-top secret and military
security clearance," to the prime minister of Malaysia. In 1980 he
surfaced in Edmonton where he threatened to sue the city for $200 when
a tent belonging to a Malaysian cultural group with which he was
associated blew down in a sting the city's Heritage Days festival. In
February 1980, he also gained attention when he apologized to the
Iranian Embassy for Canada's role in spiriting six U.S. diplomats out
of Tehran in the days following the Islamic revolution. Grosvenor
called the ance given to the diplomats by Kenneth Taylor, Canada's
ambassador to Iran, a "criminal act" intended to aid U.S. "spies."
In the intervening years, Grosvenor has waged an unceasing campaign
intended, in his words "to put the Ghermezians out of businessAfter
returning from West Germany last week, Grosvenor was holed up in his
home in Edmonton's Dickinsfield neighbourhood, reportedly refusing
service of the Triple Five gag order. The company's lawyers were
preparing to go to court again Monday morning foan order allowing them
to nail the injunction to the door of Grosvenor's home, which is in
fact owned by his wife, Sario. Grosvenor could also face extortion
charges in connection with his campaign against the Ghermezians.
According to a $22-million lawsut filed against him by the family,
Grosvenor told a Ghermezian associate that a payment of $1.2 million
would leave him "too busy to continue his harassment of the plaintiffs
for at least three year." The Ghermezians intend to keep him quiet for
a lot loner than that.
=30=
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'I fully accept this, it's a fact. The discussion on Auschwitz, the gas
chambers and the Holocaust is finished ... it's useless to dispute it'.
(David Irving on Holocaust denial, as quoted by his Austrian lawyer)
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