Filed under: Estates
Now this is just getting ridiculous. First Roman Abramovich was rumored to have purchased Villa Leopolda, the expensive estate in Villefranche-sur-Mer on the French Riviera. Then Russian precious metals mogul Mikhail Prokhorov was stated to have snapped it up. As my colleague Jared Paul Stern reported over the weekend, Prokhorov is the 24th richest man in the world with a $22 billion fortune and was briefly detained during an investigation into a suspected prostitution ring at a ski resort in the French Alps. Turns out Prokhorov still has some hurt feelings over that bit of police drama states BBC News and according to a spokesman, refuses to do business in France until he gets a proper apology.
We’re starting to run out of Russian billionaires to pin this on. Well, that’s not entirely true, there’s still a long list but hopefully someone will own up to the $750 million purchase pretty soon. You can’t keep a secret that huge for too long.
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