Panayiotou v Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd the copyright to Sony for many years, leaving him no control over how the music would be marketed nor placing a reciprocal requirement that the label invest in promotion. Had the case succeeded, it might have curtailed the practice of signing artists to multi-album contracts. The court wholly rejected the claims. Georgios Panayiotou, known professionally as George Michael, signed with Innervision Records in 1982 at the age of eighteen as part of the then relatively unknown pop duo Wham!. Innervision were distributed by CBS Records. In 1984 this contract was nullified as part of a legal compromise wherein Wham! were
Andreas Panayiotou (businessman) for 18 months) and 15 months (suspended for 18 months), respectively, after an unprovoked street attack on an off-duty police officer, which left with him a fractured eye-socket and titanium plates in his cheek. One online petition calling for prison sentences received over 30,000 signatures. Panayiotou owns a £40-million Gulfstream G450 jet, a £12-million Mangusta 130 yacht, and two Cessna Citation jets, as well as a Range Rover, Ferrari Enzo, Lamborghini LP700, Rolls-Royce Phantom convertible, and a Bugatti Veyron. Andreas Panayiotou (businessman) Andreas Panayiotou (born 1965/1966) is a British property developer, the founder of Ability Group, and once the UK's