THE co-founder of online fashion giant Asos has died in a mysterious balcony fall in Thailand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Multi-millionaire retail<\/a> entrepreneur Quentin Griffiths, 58, plunged from his 17th floor condo.\u00a0<\/p>\n Police<\/a> did not find any sign of a disturbance inside the apartment but have not ruled out foul play until more tests on his body.\u00a0<\/p>\n It follows a bitter row with his Thai ex-wife after she accused him of stealing \u00a3500,000 from the company they ran together.\u00a0<\/p>\n He was arrested last year and quizzed by detectives when she claimed he had forged documents to sell land and shares in the firm without her knowledge.\u00a0<\/p>\n Griffiths insisted he was innocent and was released after questioning. The probe was ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n LAST WARNING<\/p>\n Trump gives 10-day ultimatum to Iran & warns of \u2018bad things\u2019 without nuke deal<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/a> CRASH TRAGEDY<\/p>\n At least four killed and 31 injured in bus crash after \u2018driver lost control’<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n His exact cause of death will not be established until a full post-mortem, which could take months. <\/p>\n Police and paramedics discovered him on the ground below his balcony in Pattaya<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n A source close to his family said: \u201cIt\u2019s a real mystery. The phrase \u2018suspicious circumstances\u2019 has been used but we just don\u2019t know yet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Griffiths made a fortune after helping to launch Asos<\/a> in 2000.\u00a0<\/p>\n It grew into a \u00a33billion global phenomenon, with the Princess of Wales<\/span><\/a> and Michelle Obama<\/a> both wearing its own-label designs.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ex-advertising exec Griffiths quit as marketing director after four years but made \u00a315million from share sales in 2010 and had another stock windfall in 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n The dad of three moved to Thailand in around 2007 and, after divorcing his first wife, married a Thai woman. They had a son and daughter but split a few years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n A Foreign Office spokesman said: \u201cWe are supporting the family of a British national who has died in Thailand and are in contact with the local authorities.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n THE co-founder of online fashion giant Asos has died in a mysterious balcony fall in Thailand.\u00a0 Multi-millionaire retail entrepreneur Quentin Griffiths, 58, plunged from his 17th floor condo.\u00a0 Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! Quentin Griffiths, co-founder of ASOS, seen here in 2006, has died after plunging from the 17th floor of his … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Millionaire-Asos-founder-58-plunges-to-his-death-from-17th.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21179,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21177\/revisions\/21179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n Sign up for The Sun<\/span> newsletter <\/h3>\n
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