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For Steven Cohen, 35,000 Square Feet Isn’t Enough

Filed under Stevie Cohen - SAC, Estates
November 14, 2008 10:23 pm

Steven A. Cohen’s 35,000-square-foot home in Greenwich, Conn., is already big enough to cause a billionaire to do a double-take. But now, it appears that Mr. Cohen, who runs the ... Read more »

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Russian tycoon did not buy world’s most expensive villa: company

Filed under Estates, Mikhail Prokhorov - Onexim Group
August 19, 2008 5:52 pm

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has not bought the world’s most expensive villa, a spokesman for his Onexim group told AFP TuesdayThe denial comes after French daily Nice-Matin reported Saturday that Prokhorov, whom ... Read more »

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Prokhorov Nears EU496 Million Villa Purchase, Nice-Matin Says

Filed under Estates, Mikhail Prokhorov - Onexim Group
August 17, 2008 4:43 pm

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is close to buying the Villa Leopolda on the French Riviera for 496 million euros ($729 million), Nice-Matin reported yesterday, without saying where it obtained the ... Read more »

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Billionaire pays world record $845m for villa

Filed under Lifestyle, Estates
August 11, 2008 8:29 pm

The price of the Villa Leopolda, a Belle Epoque mansion on the heights of Villefrance, has amazed estate agents but fuelled local worries that the invasion of Russian money on ... Read more »

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Most expensive house on Earth, just $500M

Filed under Estates, Roman Abramovich
July 10, 2008 6:28 pm

  You’d expect to pay a lot for the best views of the French seas, close proximity to Monte Carlo, 10 acres of immaculate grounds tended by 50 gardeners and ... Read more »

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The Mittal Monopoly: Britain’s richest man buys third property on Billionaire’s Row

Filed under Estates, Lakshmi Mittal - Mittal Steel
June 25, 2008 2:02 pm

  In these cash-strapped times, it’s a lucky father who can afford to help his children on to the property ladder. Especially when the sums involved run into hundreds of ... Read more »

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Uralkali Billionaire Buys Trump’s Florida Mansion

Filed under Estates, Dmitry Rybolovlev - OAO Uralkaly
June 24, 2008 2:05 pm

Urals fertilizer billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev is the new owner of Florida’s most expensive house after paying U.S. property tycoon Donald Trump $100 million for the waterfront property. Rybolovlev, whose fortune ... Read more »

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Gee, times are tough — even billionaire has trouble finding a buyer

Filed under Estates, Norm Waitt Jr
May 25, 2008 6:26 pm

Norm Waitt Jr., co-founder of Gateway personal computers, is selling his Montecito mansion — Belle �poque — in a sealed-bid auction instead of continuing to list it with a real-estate ... Read more »

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Lakshmi Mittal to pay £117m for Britain’s priciest home

Filed under Estates, Lakshmi Mittal - Mittal Steel
May 24, 2008 12:20 pm

  A neo-Georgian house on the so-called Billionaire’s Boulevard in London is to become Britain’s most expensive when it is bought by the steel industrialist Lakshmi Mittal for £117 million.Mr ... Read more »

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Billionaire buys Colorado mansion for $36.375 million

Filed under Estates, Roman Abramovich
May 1, 2008 5:50 pm

Leon Hirsch’s patience finally paid off. Hirsch sold his Wildcat Ridge mansion on Tuesday for $36.375 million to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, punctuating more than three years of trying to ... Read more »

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Abramovich Plans World’s Priciest Home

Filed under Estates, Roman Abramovich
April 27, 2008 5:52 pm

It is a mansion fit for a king - or even a tsar.Not content with the dozens of houses he already owns around the world, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has ... Read more »

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Bodog billionaire shows off his crib

Filed under Estates, Calvin Ayre - Bodog Entertainment
March 28, 2008 10:44 am

It’s a long way from Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, to Costa Rica but Calvin Ayre has clearly landed on his feet. The Bodog billionaire shows off his Costa Rica party palace on MTV’s Cribs show. His two houses have all mod cons — there’s a swimming pool and a neighbouring golf course read the rest published by PA Daily Herald here: http://www.paherald.sk.ca/index.cfm?main=broadcast&bcid=5309&cpvid=1

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Sold at £80m: London’s priciest home

Filed under Estates, Victor Pinchuk - EastOne
February 29, 2008 11:35 pm

A record price for a London home has been set with the £80m sale of a large detached house in Kensington. It smashes the previous high of £67m for ... Read more »

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Tycoon sells up to escape Barratt homes

Filed under Estates, Lakshmi Mittal - Mittal Steel
8:45 pm

  Not everyone wants to live next door to a new Barratt home - and it seems billionaire Lakshmi Mittal is among them. As the housebuilder prepares to launch the ... Read more »

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Toprak mansion buyer revealed…Mrs. Peramam

Filed under Lifestyle, Estates, Horelma Peramam
February 24, 2008 6:01 pm

  Mrs.  Hourieh Peramam whose life story is shrouded in mystery. Her spokes people say she walked from Kazakhstan to Iran at the age of 17, married a wealthy ... Read more »

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Edgar Bronfman’s Fifth Avenue Flip

Filed under Estates, Edgar Bronfman Jr. - WMG
February 6, 2008 9:55 pm

Private equity bosses are constantly fighting off criticism that they are “flippers,” buying companies and quickly selling them for a profit without adding much real value. When it comes to ... Read more »

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An Apartment Buying Spree for a Billionaire Investor

Filed under Estates, Billionaire kids, Ira Rennert - Renco Group
January 23, 2008 5:01 pm

Brooklyn-born Ira Rennert has an oceanic $185 million Hamptons compound, a few infamous smelting plants in Peru and Missouri, and a billion-dollar fortune from junk bonds and Hummer vehicles. He ... Read more »

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Sale of ‘Top Whack Mansion’ is £50m record

Filed under Estates, Horelma Peramam
January 20, 2008 9:00 pm

The property market may be sliding into the doldrums, but someone forgot to tell a small patch of north London. Toprak Mansion on The Bishop’s Avenue, Barnet, sold last week ... Read more »

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Inside the £35m Hampstead home of diamond billionaire

Filed under Estates, Lev Leviev - Africa Israel Investments
January 8, 2008 5:23 pm

  This house in Hampstead has become the most expensive new property ever sold in Britain. Israeli diamond billionaire Lev Leviev paid £35million for the seven-bedroom home ... Read more »

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One Billionaire’s Home, Countless Stares

Filed under Estates, Paul Tudor Jones - Tudor Investment Corporation
December 16, 2007 7:47 pm

Scores of cars from all over Fairfield and Westchester Counties, and some from as far away as New Jersey, drive past the guard house at the entrance to Belle ... Read more »

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