secret partner

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He was the secret partner in the $722 million purchase of 20th Century-Fox in 1981.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rich, a secret partner with Denver Oilman Marvin Davis in the 1981 purchase of the film studio, sold his shares to Davis last week for a reported $116 million.

From Time Magazine Archive

His old school friend, Ballantyne, forced into bankruptcy the printing firm in which Scott was a secret partner.

From Modern English Books of Power by Fitch, George Hamlin

While Timmins, returning from his breakfast on this busy Monday, wondered at Mr. Fritz Braun delaying his comfortable luncheon, Mr. Adolph Lilienthal was anxiously awaiting his secret partner in villainy at the "Newport Art Gallery."

From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Savage, Richard

I ran a store and was a secret partner in a saloon that paid better than the store.

From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick