Sir Martin Sorrell accused of using WPP money to pay for sex worker

Sir Martin Sorrell is facing a board probe into whether he used WPP money to pay for a sex worker. 

Sorrell, who was the longest-serving FTSE 100 CEO until his departure from WPP has ‘strenuously’ denied the allegations.

The statement follows a report in the Wall Street Journal, which claimed one of the matters of the Board investigation into Sorrell’s alleged personal misconduct regards whether he used funds from WPP – the company he founded and developed into the world’s largest advertising group – to pay for a sex worker.

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