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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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Let off for multi-billionaire Tetra Pak heir and wife who smuggled crack cocaine and heroin into US Embassy

Filed under Lifestyle, Investigations & Law, Hans Kristian Rausing - Tetra Pak
July 29, 2008 7:04 pm

A fabulously wealthy couple caught with a huge haul of cocaine, crack, and heroin are to escape without being prosecuted, a court heard yesterday. Hans Rausing, 45, an heir to ... Read more »

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Leona Helmsley’s will valued at $8billion goes to the dogs

Filed under Lifestyle, Leona Helmsley
July 3, 2008 12:08 pm

Sure, the New York hotelier and real estate magnate Leona Helmsley left $12 million in her will to her dog, Trouble. But that, it turns out, is nothing much compared ... Read more »

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Winehouse in Moscow

Filed under Lifestyle, Roman Abramovich
June 14, 2008 11:29 am

The troubled British singer Amy Winehouse performed for the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and his girlfriend, the model Daria Zhukova, at the opening of an art gallery in Moscow on ... Read more »

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Billionaire ‘partied with strippers at his private cocaine warehouse’

Filed under Lifestyle, Investigations & Law, Henry T. Nicholas III - Broadcom
June 8, 2008 5:53 pm

One of America’s most powerful businessmen has been indicted on multiple counts of using prostitutes, drug abuse and massive financial fraud, in the latest boardroom scandal to hit the US ... Read more »

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Ashley wins £1.3m on one spin of roulette wheel

Filed under Lifestyle, Mike Ashley - Sports Direct
May 4, 2008 11:14 am

The billionaire owner of Newcastle United has won £1.3million on the single spin of a roulette wheel. High-rolling Mike Ashley collected the windfall after betting a total of £480,000 on ... Read more »

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Billionaire dream list: helipad and private beach

Filed under Lifestyle
March 6, 2008 6:26 pm

Credit crunch? What credit crunch?More billionaire house hunters than ever are scouring the globe in search of the perfect hideaway. So how about a Parisian mansion with its own ballroom, ... Read more »

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Faberge Fan Ivanov Reveals Why He Paid $17.7 Million for an Egg

Filed under Lifestyle, Art, Alexander Ivanov
February 26, 2008 10:39 am

Alexander Ivanov has written himself into auction history as the man who spent $17.7 million on an egg. When the hammer came down for a record price on the gold ... 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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Deal for Dolphins a billionaire’s dream

Filed under Lifestyle, Deals, H. Wayne Huizenga, Stephen M. Ross - CharterMac
February 23, 2008 12:36 pm

Stephen M. Ross agreed to pay $550 million for half of the Miami Dolphins, the team he rooted for as a young man. But that doesn’t mean he expects a ... Read more »

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Berggruen throws Hollywood A-list party

Filed under Lifestyle, Nicolas Berggruen - Berggruen Holdings
February 21, 2008 10:57 pm

 girl need not worry about a ride in this town as long as bro-mancing duo Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson are around! One lucky platinum-haired gal got chauffered into Chateau ... Read more »

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Alwaleed plans $176mn Airbus refit

Filed under Lifestyle, Alwaleed bin Talal - Kingdom Holding
February 11, 2008 10:19 pm

Saudi Arabia’s richest businessman will spend £90million pounds turning his A380 Airbus the most luxurious private jet in the world, it emerged today.Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, ... Read more »

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Mystery nightclub blaze adds to fears that Russia’s party is over

Filed under Lifestyle
February 10, 2008 2:02 pm

It was Moscow’s most shamelessly elite nightclub, a place where you had to be beautiful, über-rich or well connected to get in - a symbol of the Russia of the ... Read more »

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‘Rare’ wine buyer still after seller

Filed under Lifestyle, Investigations & Law, William Koch - Koch Industries
January 17, 2008 2:17 pm

 Having spent a half-million dollars proving he was duped into buying wine he thought once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, Palm Beach billionaire Bill Koch isn’t about to let the man ... Read more »

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Sotheby’s, Christie’s Report Record Russian Art Sales in 2007

Filed under Lifestyle, Art
January 11, 2008 12:20 pm

The world’s top two auction houses, Christie’s International and Sotheby’s, profited from an expanding Russian economy with its growing ranks of newly rich collectors to score a record year in ... Read more »

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Toys for the boys are not enough for time-pressed billionaires

Filed under Lifestyle
December 22, 2007 5:40 pm

Entrepreneurs, sports stars and foreign billionaires are spending more than ever on luxury services. Private banks and wealth managers say clients are moving beyond traditional luxury goods in search of ... Read more »

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Rubles Are a Girl’s Best Friend

Filed under Lifestyle, Billionaire kids
December 10, 2007 12:58 pm

AMERICANS who love celebrities follow the escapades of Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. The British consume themselves with the romantic lives of their royals. But in Moscow, where raw political ... Read more »

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Behind London’s Boom: Billionaires From Abroad

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Lifestyle
October 5, 2007 9:10 am

  When Thor Bjorgolfsson returns here after flying to Eastern Europe in his private jet for work, he likes to pile the family into his vintage Aston Martin convertible and ... Read more »

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Big Egos Rising

Filed under Profiles, Lifestyle, Yevgeny Chichvarkin - Evroset
October 3, 2007 7:34 pm

Newsweek profiles some of the lavish spending billionaires: Most CEOs favor pinstripes and French cuffs. Not Yevgeny Chichvarkin. Last year, when the brash Muscovite cell-phone magnate gave a keynote address at a ... Read more »

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New book about billionaires: ” All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make–and Spend–Their Fortunes “

Filed under Lifestyle, Books
September 14, 2007 7:31 am

this book has been just published By Knopf. It makes a very interesting reading.  It  profiles the top billionaires on Forbes 400 list and their spending habits.   All the ... 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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New Billionaire Tries To Develop Eccentricities : Profile of Mark Stern

Filed under Profiles, Lifestyle, Mark Stern
May 16, 2007 11:55 pm

Since several shrewd investments in software start-ups pushed his net worth over the $1 billion mark last fall, Mark Stern has been attempting to cultivate eccentricities commensurate with his new ... Read more »

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How hedge fund billionaires spend

Filed under Eddie Lampert - ESL, James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds, Lifestyle
May 8, 2007 4:59 am

Article in  New York Times  reports  that most of these money makers put the money back into their funds, “betting that they will continue to beat the markets.” She says Jim ... Read more »

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