On Saturday night, Roman Abramovich opened his French Caribbean paradise, the 70-acre Gouverneur Bay Estate, to 400 guests for a New Year’s Eve party.
The Russian oligarch’s guests were informed to dress “island chic.” and were treated to a show from Red Hot Chili Peppers, a buffet and a DJ.
This party cost a reported $5 million and attracted a host of big-names including Rupert Murdoch, George Lucas, Marc Jacobs, Martha Stewart, Mischa Barton, Harvey Weinstein, Georgina Chapman and Jimmy Buffett.
Each year Robb Report comes out with an “Ultimate Gifts” issue of exclusive, jaw-droppingly expensive holiday offerings exclusive to its readers.
This year is no exception, with 21 items designed to appeal to those who have everything.
Topping the list of profligate presents is a $260 million Boeing 787 Dreamliner VIP jumbo jet with a custom interior design and exterior paint scheme by Edese Doret.
A shopper has broken the record for duty-free purchases at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport by splurging nearly 50,000 euros on six bottles of exclusive wine.
The shopper, who was identified only as “an Asian”, bought a bottle of Romanee Conti 1995, a Chateau Margaux 2003, two bottles of Chateau Lafitte 1982 and two bottles of Petrus 1980, worth a total of 49,905 euros ($66,000).
The airport did not say when the purchases had been made, but noted that high-quality wines “sell better at the end of the year”.
Virgin America is offering a deal on deals site Giltcity.com to take a round-trip flight for you and up to 145 of your friends for $60,000.
The flight would take you on a full-size Airbus A320, complete with in-flight wifi, seatback entertainment systems, and in-flight meals and drinks.
The offer is good for a round-trip flight to any of Virgin America’s nonstop domestic locations, excluding Mexico.
Miami’s most exclusive enclave, Fisher Island is still America’s number one “Millionaire Capitol” according to Forbes‘ calculations.
Forbes.com combed through IRS data and ranked zip codes by the average income of those who make at least $200,000 a year.
They then estimated the average net-worth for people making over $200,000 a year. Fisher Island came in first place by a large margin.
Jean Paul Gaultier has designed a 1-ounce gold bar for French gold investment company CPoR Devises, WWD reports.
The gold bar features a JPG-designed heart with his name written across it. Currently, one ounce of gold is valued at $1,680.00.
