Sassoon family controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2017
Paradise Papers trust disclosure
James Sassoon was identified in reporting on the Paradise Papers as a beneficiary of a Cayman Islands trust. He said the trust concerned assets originating outside the United Kingdom.
Opium-trade legacy
The family’s nineteenth-century wealth in India, China and Hong Kong was substantially connected with the Sino-Indian opium trade. This history is controversial because the trade operated within imperial systems that generated severe social and political consequences, including those associated with the Opium Wars.