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

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

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

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