11 Facts About Peter Rachman

Perec "Peter" Rachman was a Polish-born landlord who operated in Notting Hill, London, England, in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Peter Rachman became notorious for his exploitation of his tenants, with the word "Rachmanism" entering the Oxford English Dictionary as a synonym for the exploitation and intimidation of tenants.

Peter Rachman was first interned by the Germans and, after escaping across the Soviet border, was reinterned in a Soviet labour camp in Siberia and cruelly treated.

Peter Rachman was demobilised in 1948 and became a British resident.

Peter Rachman began his career by working for an estate agent in Shepherd's Bush.

Peter Rachman filled the properties with recent migrants from the West Indies.

Peter Rachman would buy properties for the Krays and they would take a percentage from the rentals as "protection".

Peter Rachman realised this was a ruse by the Krays to slowly take over his property empire and made them a counter offer, to run a central London nightclub Peter Rachman owned.

Peter Rachman did not achieve general notoriety until after his death, when the Profumo affair of 1963 hit the headlines and it emerged that both Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies had been his mistresses and that he had owned the mews house in Marylebone where Rice-Davies and Keeler had briefly stayed.

Peter Rachman married his long-standing girlfriend Audrey O'Donnell in March 1960 but remained a compulsive womaniser, maintaining Mandy Rice-Davies as his mistress at 1 Bryanston Mews West, W1, where he had previously briefly installed Christine Keeler.

Peter Rachman was buried at the Bushey Jewish Cemetery in Bushey, Hertfordshire.