Piers Benedict Adam | |
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Born | March 1964 (age 60) |
Citizenship | British |
Occupation(s) | Businessman, owner of Mahiki and Whisky Mist |
Spouse | Sophie Vanacore (m. 2017) |
Children | 2 |
Piers Benedict Adam (born March 1964) is a British businessman, the owner of London nightclubs Mahiki, Whisky Mist and Tini, [1] [2] and the co-owner of Mayfair's The Punch Bowl with Guy Ritchie. [3]
Piers Adam was born in March 1964, [4] and grew up in north London, the son of David Adam, a lawyer, and Shirley, an art teacher. [5] He was educated at Highgate School and then Oxford Polytechnic, where he studied estate management, but failed. [5]
In 2002, he went into partnership with restaurateur Marco Pierre White and fellow club owner Oscar Owide, and they combined Swallow Street's Stork Club and Crazy Horse into a new club called the Stork Rooms, but it closed six months later. [6]
In 2014, Adam purchased the Craigellachie Hotel in the Moray village of Craigellachie. [7] [8]
In 2019, he launched his own Scotch whisky called Copper Dog. [9]
Adam was the best man at Guy Ritchie's wedding to Madonna at Skibo Castle in 2000. [7]
On 7 July 2017, Adam married model Sophie Vanacore in London. [10] Adam lives in Kensington with his wife and their two sons. [7]
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