New Delhi: Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he took every opportunity to live life as a playboy; his wild lifestyle and extravagant spending gained him notoriety in high society.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. was publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett, Sr., who emigrated from Scotland.
He was generally known as Gordon Bennett to distinguish him from his father and has been linked to the British expletive "Gordon Bennett!"
The greatest and perhaps most unbelievable story was the time Bennett grew so annoyed with a huge roll of money that he couldn't fit into his pocket that he just burnt it.
