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Image source, PA Media<\/p>\nWho is Michelle Mone?published at 10:26 BST<\/p>\n
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Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n
Born in her own words “into nothing”, Michelle Mone was raised
\nin the Dennistoun area of Glasgow. She left school at 15 with no qualifications
\nbut a determination “to make something of myself”.<\/p>\n
In 1999, she talked her way into Selfridges in London,
\nand won a deal to sell her gel-filled Ultimo bra. She and first husband Michael re-mortgaged their house and
\nwent \u00a370,000 into debt to develop the product.<\/p>\n
After more than 20 years together, the Mones divorced in 2011. Michelle bought Michael out of the business and became the
\nface and body of the brand, modelling her own lingerie.<\/p>\n
She had been a Labour supporter but moved to the
\nConservatives in 2010. In 2015, Prime Minister David Cameron made her an “entrepreneurship tsar” – within weeks it was announced
\nshe was to become a Conservative peer, as Baroness Mone of Mayfair.<\/p>\n
In 2016, Mone announced she was in a new relationship with
\nDoug Barrowman, a billionaire businessman. They settled in the Isle of Man, and
\nworked together in the crypto-currency sector.<\/p>\n
She lost the Conservative whip after her links to PPE Medpro
\nemerged and has taken a leave of absence from the House of Lords.<\/p>\n