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Calvin Ayre: From Drug Smuggling Pig Farmer’s Son To Billionaire Playboy

By modelsandmoguls on | From modelsandmoguls.com

Billionaire playboy Calvin Ayre recently made news in the U.K for entering a “lucrative shirt sponsorship deal” with Scottish football team Ayr United.

Born on a pig farm and linked to his father’s drug smuggling operation at age 22, the 49 year old Canadian now runs Bodog, the world’s largest online gambling site.

According to The Daily Record, Calvin Ayre invested in Ayr United because he shares his name with the team and believes his ancestors came from Ayr.

According to Ayre, whose motto is “Gamblin’, drinkin’ and carryin’ on”, his story began on a Saskatchewan pig farm.

“All through my life it was get up in the morning, go feed the pigs, go to school and come back.” – Calvin Ayre.

In 1987, his father was arrested and convicted for smuggling 750lb of marijuana from Jamaica to Canada. Despite not being charged or arrested himself, Calvin was referred to by the judge as a co-conspirator who “undoubtedly played a part”.

A gambler since his teens, Ayre founded the original Bodog brand 16 years ago, selling everything he owned to raise $10,000 in start up capital.

From those hard scrabble beginnings, Calvin Ayre parlayed Bodog into a multi-billion dollar gambling empire, evading US vice by keeping his assets offshore.

Meanwhile, Ayre keeps company with celebrities like Paris Hilton and Busta Rhymes and has appeared in People and Star Magazine as a most eligible bachelor; on the cover of Forbes Magazine’s 2006 annual Billionaires edition; and featured in a 6-page profile in Playboy, of which he bought 3000 copies.

Source – The Daily Record