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The new King of England’s longtime favorite tailor is facing a suit of the legal kind filed by the real life model for the street smart New York attorney in Tom Wolfe’s novel Bonfire of the Vanities.
In a civil complaint filed on Sept. 20 in Manhattan Supreme Court, Ed Hayes says that as a minority owner of Anderson & Sheppard of London, he has come to suspect the company fails to collect sales tax in New York and elsewhere in America. Hayes further raises the possibility that the company is hiding profits.
“The need for an accounting is an urgent matter,” the lawsuit says.