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Billionaire Icahn’s 177-ft motor yacht up for sale

Filed under Playthings, Carl Icahn
October 19, 2008 7:00 pm

Wanted: A buyer for billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s 177-foot motor yacht. Brokerage firm  Northrop & Johnson listed Icahn’s yacht, Starfire, this week. read the rest published by Yahoo here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081017/us_nm/us_icahn_yacht_1

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Soccer Clubs Seen as Billionaire `Trophies,’ Deloitte Says

Filed under Playthings
May 29, 2008 7:39 pm

Top soccer clubs are becoming the “trophy assets” of international billionaires seeking capital gains rather than annual profit, accountant Deloitte & Touche LLP said in its Annual Review of Football ... Read more »

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Force India co-owner ‘close to tears’ after Sutil crash in Monaco

Filed under Vijay Mallya - United Beverages, Playthings
May 28, 2008 3:21 pm

Force India’s billionaire co-owner Vijay Mallya has conceded to being “shattered” and “close to tears” after seeing his dreams of Monaco glory cruelly wrecked last weekend. Adrian Sutil was on ... Read more »

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Ahoy, Billionaires: The Royal Navy Is at Your Service

Filed under Playthings
February 28, 2008 4:21 pm

In 1805, British Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson set sail from this seaside town to engage Napoleon Bonaparte’s fleet off the Spanish coast. The Englishman’s victory at Cape Trafalgar established Britannia ... Read more »

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Saudi Prince Purchases His Own Airbus A380 Superjumbo

Filed under Playthings, Alwaleed bin Talal - Kingdom Holding
November 12, 2007 9:20 pm

  Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi billionaire who is Citigroup Inc.’s biggest individual investor, agreed to buy a $319 million Airbus SAS A380 superjumbo, becoming the first private customer ... Read more »

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Google’s billionaire founders add a fourth jet to their fleet

Filed under Sergey Brin - Google, Playthings, Larry Page - Google
October 12, 2007 3:31 pm

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google’s billionaire founders, are adding a fourth aircraft to the fleet which, for $1.3 million a year, they park at the airfield owned by NASA ... Read more »

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Texan billionaire arranges $ 5 million winner-take-all cricket match

Filed under Playthings, Allen Stanford - Stanford group
September 25, 2007 3:50 pm

  The Twenty20 World Champions India have been invited by Texan billionaire Allen Stanford to play a $ 5 million winner-take-all match against the Stanford Super Star team on June ... Read more »

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NASA gives Google founders a coveted parking place for their private jet

Filed under Sergey Brin - Google, Playthings, Larry Page - Google
September 13, 2007 12:38 am

SAN FRANCISCO: In the annals of perks enjoyed by American corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an un-crowded, federally-managed runway for their private jet ... Read more »

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Abramovich to use Airbus A380 as private jet

Filed under Roman Abramovich, Playthings
September 5, 2007 1:19 am

PARIS (AFP) - The billionaire Russian owner of Chelsea football club, Roman Abramovich, has ordered an Airbus A380, the world’s biggest airliner, for use as his private jet, a report ... Read more »

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F-1’s Ecclestone May Raise $30 Million in Classic Car Auction

Filed under Playthings, Bernie Ecclestone
August 8, 2007 11:49 am

 Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One’s billionaire chief executive officer, may get 15 million pounds ($30.3 million) from selling 50 classic cars, including a 1937 Mercedes 540K Cabriolet with red leather interior, ... Read more »

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A billionaire hotel suite costs 30 grand per night

Filed under Playthings, Ty Warner
August 3, 2007 6:49 am

Linda Aslanian is about to lead a visitor through the most expensive hotel room in the nation. But before she does, there’s something they must do. “I’m afraid we’ll ... Read more »

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Billionaires are into submarines now

Filed under Lifestyle, Playthings
July 10, 2007 3:45 am

The ocean floor is the final spending frontier for the world’s richest people. Journeying to see what’s on the bottom aboard a personal submersible is a wretched excess guaranteed ... Read more »

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Yet again : billionaire boats

Filed under Playthings
June 5, 2007 1:15 am

Forbes just published a nice picture list of famous billionaire yachts.  You can check it out here:  http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/2007/05/31/billie-cup-boat-forbeslife-cx_ls_0531boat_slide_2.html?boxes=custom

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Billionaire boats

Filed under Playthings
June 1, 2007 1:25 am

Forbes today put togethre a great slideshow of largest and best billionaire yachts.  Check it out  here: http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/31/billie-cup-boat-forbeslife-cx_ls_0531boat_slide_7.html?thisSpeed=15000

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New plaything for billionaires : a $180million corporate jet

Filed under Playthings
May 22, 2007 10:33 am

The idea that the latest Airbus super-Jumbo, which does not enter airline service until this autumn, will become a billionaire’s plaything seems extraordinary. But by Airbus calculations, there are ... Read more »

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