Samantha Kane

Samantha Kane (formerly Charles Kane; born January 1960) is an Iraqi-born British barrister and businesswoman. Kane came under media scrutiny in 1990 when she led a takeover bid for Sheffield United F.C. as head of a Saudi Arabian investment firm. After coming out as a transgender woman in 1998, she was interviewed for the role of the club's next chief executive; she was ultimately forced to resign from her investment firm. From 2004 to 2017, she took a male gender identity, going by the given name Charles, but later came out again as a transgender woman. Since 2022, she owns the Carbisdale Castle in the Scottish Highlands and has styled herself as Lady Carbisdale.