Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan

Antony Patrick Andrew Cairne Berkeley Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan, 3rd Baronet of Carr Manor (2 February 1936 – 24 November 1991) was a British hereditary peer. He lived a playboy lifestyle and married five times. After multiple charges of fraud in 1970, he left the UK for good. Settling in the Philippines, he was allegedly involved in procuring and drug trafficking. After attending Stowe School, Moynihan served in the Coldstream Guards. After a domestic dispute and an affair on Moynihan's part, he left for Australia where he intended working on his uncle's sheep farm. In Sydney he met Shirin Berry, a Malaysian who danced under the name Princess Amina. Returning to England in 1957 he reconciled with Ann, however this was short-lived. He married Shirin in 1958 after converting to Islam. He was soon on the move again, leaving for Ibiza with his wife. After the collapse of his nightclub business he returned to England.

In Tokyo in 1960 he challenged Al Ricketts, an American journalist, to a duel after he criticised Shirin's dancing. Moynihan defeated Rickets in the unusual duel that involved the two combatants attacking each other with their buttocks. In 1961 he and his wife converted to the Baháʼí Faith. In the Philippines, he operated a brothel and was linked to the drug trade, but had some level of protection due to his close ties with President Ferdinand Marcos. In 1980 he was named by the Woodward Royal Commission in Australia as an associate of a prominent Australian drug trafficking group operating between Manila and Sydney.

During the late 1980s Moynihan worked as an informant for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, for which he was given immunity from prosecution. His testimony led to the conviction of Howard Marks, a Welsh drug smuggler. "He's a first-class bastard", Marks said. Hon Kathleen Maynila Helen Imogen Juliet Moynihan (born 9 April 1974)

Fourthly, he married Editha Eduarda in February 1981. In 1990, they went through a divorce declared invalid by the British Courts 31 July 1996. They had no children, although Andrew Antony Joseph Patrick Berkeley Moynihan (born 6 March 1989) was believed to be Moynihan's son until DNA testing proved he was not following a dispute about who would inherit the barony.

Finally, he bigamously married Jinna Mabinta on 2 December 1984. They had one son:

Daniel Moynihan (born January 1985). He was held by the House of Lords not to be an heir to the barony because of his illegitimacy, due to his parents' bigamous marriage.

In September, 2016, his daughter Aurora was killed in the Philippines. At the time of her death the Philippines was undergoing an intensive and controversial crackdown on drug dealers.

Death and legacy On the death of the 3rd Baron in 1991 the Barony was declared dormant. In 1997 the House of Lords declared that the 3rd Baron's half-brother Colin was the rightful heir to the barony and baronetcy, finding against two other claimants.

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