secret partner

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Scott's publishers, and of the Ballantynes his printers, with whom he was a secret partner, who were largely indebted to the Constables and so to the creditors of that house.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John

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

I will be your secret partner, and supply the funds to start with.

From Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Balzac, Honoré de