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Charles Saatchi is the co-founder of advertising agencies Saatchi and Saatchi and M&C Saatchi. He is the brother of Lord Saatchi (Maurice Saatchi). He is also famous for sponsoring the Young British Artists and the foundation of the Saatchi Gallery now located at County Hall in London.
Saatchi was said to be "absolutely devastated" when, on 24 May 2004, a fire in a storage warehouse destroyed many art works, worth millions of pounds, from the Saatchi collection. One art insurance specialist valued the lost work at £50m.
He is the second husband of celebrity cook Nigella Lawson.