Brought up just minutes from Franklin's Gardens, Lawes is the local boy done good but was a latedeveloper in rugby terms having only taken up the game at the age of 16.
The property's previous owner, the estate of latedeveloper and grocery-store magnate Lloyd King, had pursued selling the property to be developed into 40 houses before opting instead to sell it to Mr. Ergen in 2011.
Rafiq Hariri, the late billionaire property developer, was elected prime minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his assassination in 2005.