James Goldsmith wurde am 26 Februar 1933 in Frankreich geboren. Er war mit Annabel Birley, Ginette Lery und Maria Isabel Patiño verheiratet. Er starb am 18 Juni 1997 in Spanien.
Fathered Zac Goldsmith and Jemima Khan while their mother (the sister of Jane Rayne) was married to her first husband, and he was married to his second wife; they married in 1978. Goldsmith had fathered a son by his second wife before marrying her, then fathered two children by a mistress while married to his third wife.
[on the staff of "Private Eye", during his lawsuit against its editor}: They have attacked my son. I will throw them into prison. I will hound their wives, even in their widows' weeds.
