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Robert Fredrick ("Ric") Stowe (born 1944) is a businessman who was once prominent in Western Australia. Stowe acquired Griffin Coal in 1979 and later acquired SkyWest and East-West Airlines during the 1980s. It was during this time that Stowe joined the John Curtin Foundation along with Alan Bond, Ernest Henry Lee-Steere and Laurie Connell to raise funds for the then Premier of Western Australia, Brian Burke. The reclusive billionaire moved to Monaco in 1986, when he moored his yacht ''Capella'' at the tax haven. Since then he has split his time between his new home and Western Australia. Stowe separated from his partner, Jemma Lee-Steere (Ernest Lee-Steere's daughter), in 1990. The couple rose to prominence through the media scrutiny of the subsequent court battle. The couple had three daughters and had been together for ten years; they had never married, but she had changed her surname to Stowe by deed poll at his insistence. In 1994 she sued Stowe for 250 million, and by 2000 a settlement had been reached.〔 In 2010 administrators were called in when Griffin Coal failed to pay a 25 million instalment on 475 million worth of bonds. Griffin had also failed to pay the Australian Taxation Office a 5 million instalment of a 65 million debt. The company collapsed shortly afterward. Soon afterward properties from another Stowe company, WR Carpenter Agriculture Pty Ltd, which controlled a herd of 50,000 cattle, were being sold off; these included Minilya and Joanna Plains Stations. A fire sale of Stowe assets followed, with his estate, ''Devereaux'', near Bullsbrook selling in 2013. The property with a 20 bedroom, 8 bathroom mansion, two swimming pools, two helicopter pads and a polo field that was once worth 70 million sold for 21.35 million in 2013. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ric Stowe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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