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Auric Goldfinger
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Auric Goldfinger
Auric Goldfinger
is a
fictional character
and the main
antagonist
in the
James Bond
film
Goldfinger
, based on
Ian Fleming
's
novel of the same name
. His first name,
Auric
, is an adjective meaning of
gold
. Fleming chose the name to commemorate the architect
Erno Goldfinger
, who had built his home in
Hampstead
, near Fleming's; it is possible, though unlikely, that he disliked Goldfinger's style of architecture and destruction of
Victorian
terraces and decided to name a memorable villain after him. According to a 1965
Forbes
article and
The New York Times
, the Goldfinger persona was based on gold mining magnate
Charles W. Engelhard, Jr.
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