They included Mark Getty, the grandson of John Paul Getty and the new chairman of London's National Gallery, Matthew Freud, a PR magnate, Peter Simon, a British retailer and founder of Monsoon and Accessorize, all three members of the Mugrabi family who own already nearly 100 Hirsts, and Sir Norman Rosenthal, a former secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts and one of Mr Hirst's earliest supporters.
ECONOMIST: Damien Hirst