It has become a regrettable trope of British life that, whenever a public figure finds himself in hot water over here, their first instinct is to hitch themselves to red-state America. Russell Brand did it, clinging to the evangelical right in Florida after he found himself accused of sexual impropriety. Liz Truss did it, too, hopping to the distant edges of the MAGA margins once her reputation was shredded by her disastrous six-week premiership. And now you’re getting Michelle Mone. As if you didn’t already have enough going on.
Engulfed in lawsuits, and with their fortune frozen amid an ongoing anti-corruption fraud investigation, Mone and her husband, Doug Barrowman, have spent the past few months conducting a fire sale of their U.K. properties. They are frantically ridding themselves of homes in Chelsea and Glasgow—even, God forbid, their yacht—with the aim of starting afresh in the humid anonymity of Florida.
