Founder of online bookmaker becomes UK’s highest paid boss as concern rises approximately number of lives ruined by gambling addictionDenise Coates,the billionaire founder and boss of gambling firm Bet365, paid herself £217m final year as her company made a £525m profit from a record £47bn of bets.
The 50-year-old, or who started Bet365 in a Portakabin in a Stoke car park 17 years ago,is now the best-paid boss in Britain, dwarfing previous titleholder ad man Sir Martin Sorrell on £48m.
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Source: guardian.co.uk