{"id":22962,"date":"2018-11-23T16:22:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22962"},"modified":"2018-11-23T16:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:22:30","slug":"meet-betting-boss-who-paid-herself-279m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22962","title":{"rendered":"Meet betting boss who paid herself $279M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The billionaire founder and boss of gambling company Bet365 has paid herself a record-breaking amount for the chief executive of a British company, taking home $279 million in 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.companieshouse.gov.uk\/company\/04241161\/filing-history\" target=\"_blank\">according to the latest accounts. <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Denise Coates, the joint chief executive of the British-based gambling firm, was paid \u00a3220 million ($283m) in the year to March 25. Her 50% stake in the company, which is not listed on the stock market, also entitled her to a \u00a345 million ($57 million) dividend. <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/12\/28\/technology\/apple-ceo-private-plane\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple CEO Tim Cook&#8217;s total compensation was $12.8 million in 2017. <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/sport\/football\">Visit cnn.com\/sport for more news and videos<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The billionaire founder and boss of gambling company Bet365 has paid herself a record-breaking amount for the chief executive of a British company, taking home $279 million in 2017, according to the latest accounts. Denise Coates, the joint chief executive of the British-based gambling firm, was paid \u00a3220 million ($283m) in the year to March&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}