In Douglas Thompson's book The Hustlers , and the subsequent documentary on Channel 4 , The Real Casino Royale , the club's former financial director John Burke and gangster Billy Hill 's associate John McKew , claimed that Aspinall worked with Hill to employ criminals to cheat the players.

Some of the wealthiest people in Britain were swindled out of millions of pounds, thanks to a gambling con known as "the Big Edge".

John Burke quit in late , a year into the scam. Hill respected Aspinall's decision and the two parted. In his years at Oxford, Aspinall had loved the book Nada the Lily by H.

Rider Haggard , about an illegitimate Zulu prince who lived outside his tribe among wild animals. In , Aspinall moved into an Eaton Place apartment with his first wife.

In the back garden, Aspinall built a garden shed housing a capuchin monkey , a 9-week-old tiger, and two Himalayan brown bears.

Later that year, with proceeds from his gambling, Aspinall purchased Howletts country house and estate near Canterbury , Kent. He lived in the house and set up a private zoo, Howletts Zoo , in the grounds.

In , because of need for further space for his animal collection, Aspinall bought Port Lympne near Hythe, Kent. He opened Howletts to the public in , and Port Lympne Zoo in He embarked on a year programme to restore Port Lympne Mansion previously owned by Sir Philip Sassoon.

Both Howletts and Port Lympne have been run by the John Aspinall Foundation since The zoos are known for being unorthodox, on account of the encouragement of close personal relationships between staff and animals, [10] for their breeding of rare and endangered species and for the number of keepers who have been killed by the animals they managed.

Aspinall's was the subject of two award-winning documentary films by Roy Deverell , Echo of the Wild and A Passion to Protect. Aspinall ran unsuccessfully for Parliament at the general election as the candidate of James Goldsmith 's single-issue against Britain's involvement in the European Union Referendum Party in the Folkestone and Hythe constituency, where he was defeated by senior Conservative Michael Howard.

Privately, Aspinall would become, or pretend to become anti-Semitic , expressing hatred towards Jews, and his admiration of Hitler.

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