You're going to laugh but Fox sort of reminds me of my grandfather, though on a much grander scale. He likewise was the son of orthodox Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Hungary in his case, and bounced from scheme to scheme. I think I sort of understand Fox. Don't necessarily approve, but I get his thinking.
I've seen news reports of the 1944 court case but not the court documents. The 1920 case dragged on for years and apparently set some kind of important precedent in maritime law. I've found Fox in the 1940 census. For some reason I had some difficulty but his WW2 draft record helped me find it. 1900, 1910, 1920 as well. 1930 I haven't been able to find.
I know the Fox family was in Nottingham by 1891, courtesy of the 1891 English census. A list of surnames in Vilna...their hometown in Lithuania...lists no Fox, but does have Fuks (kind of funny, don't you think?) and Fuchs. No specific info though, just a surname list.
Fox's name at birth was Samuel Victor Jacob Fox. Family was in Fall River by 1900. Another Fox family from Russia lived 500 feet up the road from them, leading me to believe that despite reports that it was mother Bessie who had family there it was actually father Joseph.
There are photos of Joseph, Bessie and a some of Victor's sisters in Meryle Secrest's biography of Stephen Sondheim because...wait for it...Victor Fox is the UNCLE of Stephen Sondheim!!! Though he rates little more than a mention a fair amount of family background is presented in a couple of pages in the first chapter. For some reason it makes me imagine a Kirby influenced ASSASSINS, with Red Skull, Dr. Doom & Darkseid replacing Booth, Oswald & Charlie Guiteau.
I'm trying to figure out how to contact Secrest to see if she is willing to share any info or put me in touch with her sources. However, the book is 15 years old and her sources were elderly even then, so...
It's all sort of funny when you think about it. Fox has a reputation...deserved no doubt...for being a thief. Yet Martin Goodman ripped off Joe Simon & Jack Kirby...and he got Jack again in the 60s. We all know what DC did to Siegel and Shuster. Could Fox have been any worse? And had Fox not so totally rubbed Simon the wrong way couldn't he have ended up publishing Captain America? And how might that single super-star in his hands altered the fate of his company, the history of comics, and his own reputation?
As to a photo of Fox himself...unless he somehow got an exemption denied to everyone else in the USA...there HAS to be one attached to his passport records! Unfortunately only records before 1925 are available online so they have to be ordered. They are public records and can be purchased...but all you get are photocopies, the snapshot attached is very small, and the cost is steep at $150.
Still, if we can gather up a handful of curious people and pool the costs. I've attached pre-1925 passport images for Victor's mother Bessie, to give you an idea what we might hope for.