He’s pulled off the sort of things that most of us can only dream of, whether it’s checking into the sumptuous Mandarin Oriental hotel and racking up a room service bill for \u00a325,000, or shelling out \u00a33 million for Piers Court, the country house where Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited.<\/p>\n
But those glory days must now seem a distant memory for former executive Jason Blain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For I can reveal that the Scot, 52, has been named as debtor in a bankruptcy petition at the High Court.<\/p>\n
This follows a bleak December during which Piers Court was sold at auction, at the insistence of Hoare’s Bank, which had lent one of Blain’s companies \u00a32.1 million \u2014 only for the company to default on repayment.<\/p>\n
The house went for just over the \u00a33 million which Blain had paid for it \u2014 despite it being occupied by two friends, who, by agreement with Blain, had become sitting tenants for just \u00a35-a-week rent.<\/p>\n