Stephen Maitland-Lewis
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Stephen Maitland-Lewis (born November 22, London, England) is a solicitor, writer, and businessman.
Maitland-Lewis was educated at Uppingham School, Rutland and at Sheffield University where he read law and was awarded an honors bachelor of Laws degree. He later studied at the College of Law, London and worked at Coward, Chance in the City of London (now Clifford Chance). In 1970 he was awarded a master of laws degree from Sheffield University on the strength of a thesis on corporate takeovers.
He became a merchant banker and worked with Singer & Friedlander, London, and subsequently E.S.Schwab and at one time was the youngest director of an authorized bank in the City of London. He moved to Kuwait in 1980 where he served as general manager of an investment bank owned by two European Banks, (Robert Fleming of London and Banque Worms, Paris), members of the Kuwaiti Royal Family and major Kuwaiti commercial interests.
He moved to Munich, Germany and subsequently to New York where, with his second wife, Monika, they launched two companies. Monika Datzmann was well regarded in Europe as a major art dealer and lecturer in art, specializing in 17th and 19th century old master paintings. She was also a champion skier and had some success as a racing driver. He joined Lazard Freres, New York as a consultant in the International Department, working under the direction of Frank Zarb, and in 1987 he was appointed a Senior Vice President of Salomon Brothers in New York.
In 1989, he was one of the founding investors in AMIFS, an international financing and barter company established by Albert Sheppard, Charles Abrams, Prescott Bush, Admiral Zumwalt and others.
In 1991, with his wife he moved to California and bought a deluxe boutique hotel and restaurant. During their ownership, the hotel was admitted to membership of The Relais & Chateaux Organization. He and his wife sold the hotel and shortly thereafter were divorced.
Maitland-Lewis is writer. His novel, Hero on Three Continents, published in 2004, was well received and negotiations are in hand for its adaptation to a miniseries. A second novel is undergoing final editing prior to publication and he is currently at work on a third. Maitland-Lewis was encouraged in his writing activities by his friend and Palm Springs neighbor, the late legendary novelist Harold Robbins. He is currently employed as director of marketing of a legal daily newspaper in the United States, having formerly been the editor and writer of one of its weekly supplements.
A keen jazz connoisseur, at one time his collection of non-fiction books on jazz was considered to be the world’s largest in private hands. He has written extensively on jazz, particularly about Louis Armstrong with whom he maintained an active correspondence between 1958 and 1971, the year of Armstrong’s death. He is also a collector of Disraeli Family memorabilia that is frequently on loan to museums,
Maitland-Lewis was married twice. By his first marriage, he has two children, Victoria and Toby, both of whom live in California. He married secondly, Monika Datzmann of Munich (see above), by whom he has a second son, Benjamin, a professional musician and executive in the music industry who divides his time between Boston and New York.
Maitland-Lewis, single since 1995, lives in Beverly Hills, California and also has a home in Palm Springs. He became a United States citizen in 1994. A one-time member of The West Coast Friars Club, The Naval and Military Club (London) and The Arts Club, (London), he is currently a member of The Law Society (London) and The Beverly Hills Bar Association.
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