# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-desmond
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:54:11.815Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-desmond"
name: "Richard Desmond"
slug: "richard-desmond"
description: "Richard Clive Desmond is a British ex-publisher, businessman and former pornographer. He is the founder of Northern & Shell, a publisher that started by publishing music magazines in the 1970s, followed by variety of pornographic magazines in the 1980s. In the 1990s, it launched celebrity magazines and Portland TV that produced pornographic television channels. In the early 2000s, the company sold the pornographic magazine titles and purchased the Express Newspapers, followed by Britain's Channel 5 in 2010. It launched The Health Lottery in 2011. Channel 5 was sold in 2014, Portland TV in 2016 and the Express Newspapers in 2018."
tagline: "English publisher and businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Desmond.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.35
  momentum:             3.351158645276293
  historical:           6.001486666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/RichardDesmond"
    handle:    "RichardDesmond"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Desmond"
    title: "Richard Desmond"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF_(%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%84_%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "ريتشارد ديزموند (رجل أعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Desmond_(Verleger)"
    title: "Richard Desmond (Verleger)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Десмонд, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D8%B2%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF"
    title: "ریچارد دزموند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Desmond"
    title: "Richard Desmond"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16148419"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump