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Lyle Cleethorpes (or Lyle Cleethorpes V, as he wants to be known) is an heir to a five-generation, century-old family fortune built on tobacco and the slave trade. He is regarded by most to be a waste of the family fortune, and is allegedly a product of inbreeding. Suspicions arose that he still has business interests in the Southeast Asian sweatshops and slave trades. He aspires to be famous, which is why he built the [[Cleethorpes Tower]] ([[Hatton Gardens]], [[Algonquin]]). He also garners considerable media attention for his meth addiction and pastime of driving (and crashing) fast cars and bikes while high on drugs.

The Cleethorpes are possibly based on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_family Astor family], who were criticized for their real estate chokehold on New York during the late 1800s. Lyle may be a modern, partial take on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Astor Vincent Astor], who inherited the world's 12th largest fortune after [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor_IV his father] died on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic Titanic] in 1912. Likewise to Lyle, Vincent had a socially traumatic childhood behind his wealth, although Vincent was radically different in the sense that he gave most of his fortune to charity to try to improve his family's public image.