Gavin Finch

2 months ago | bloomberg.com | Katherine Griffiths |Harry Wilson |Gavin Finch

The butler summoned the young female employee to Evelyn de Rothschild’s private office at his grand manor house in Buckinghamshire, northwest of London. Rothschild asked her to sit down. Then he got up, closed the window blinds and lunged at the woman, according to three people she told about the incident in the months after it happened. She tried to fight him off, but he overpowered her, forced her back onto the chair and sexually assaulted her, the people said.

2 months ago | bloomberg.com | Gavin Finch |Katherine Griffiths |Harry Wilson

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2 months ago | bloomberg.com | Katherine Griffiths |Gavin Finch |Harry Wilson

Two women filed complaints with the police in 2019 alleging that the financier Evelyn de Rothschild sexually assaulted them at his country house in Buckinghamshire. One of the women told detectives that Rothschild, who died in 2022 at the age of 91, had orally raped her, according to five people with direct knowledge of the matter. The other woman accused him of sexual assault, said the people, who asked not to be identified out of fear of retribution.

2 months ago | bloomberg.com | Gavin Finch |Kendall Taggart |David Kocieniewski

A coalition of leading African civil society groups called on the World Bank to exit its investments in for-profit hospitals, following a Bloomberg News investigation that found some facilities backed by the fund detained patients for unpaid bills and denied others emergency care until they demonstrated an ability to pay.

Jan 17, 2025 | bloomberg.com | Gavin Finch

This article is for subscribers only. Hi, this is Gavin in London, where I have been reporting on coercive financial practices at World Bank-funded hospitals. More on that shortly, but first ... Two decades ago, the World Bank decided the massive health-care challenges across the world couldn’t be solved by government programs alone. They needed the participation of business to help plug the gap.