Archive for the 'super mansion' Category

One £200 million super-yacht with three Monet paintings onboard

This $400 million super-yacht was built for a Russian oligarch, Andrey Melnichenko, 37, who is worth $9.2 billion and was ranked 172 on the Forbes list of the world’s richest people. There is a large master suite as well as six luxury cabins for up to 14 guests and enough room for 42 crew members. [...]

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Harrods by Appointment – Services only for the super Rich

Mohamed Al Fayed’s Knightsbridge store introduces a new ‘focus’ on personal service — to ramp up the top-end shopping experience Here’s a quick question for well-heeled brides-to-be and their harried mothers. What do you do if in order to accommodate all your friends and respect your cultural and family traditions you need to hold wedding [...]

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Sheikh Who Backed Barclays Gets Another Shot With Qatar’s Money

On a March morning in Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City on the Persian Gulf, a red flame shrouded in black smoke shoots into the haze from a 650-foot stack. The burst of fire is burning off excess fuel as workers rush to finish equipment that will help the nation, already the world’s biggest exporter of [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Launch of new website Perfect Knowledge PR www.perfectknowledgepr.com

PRESS RELEASE
Press Office
Perfect Knowledge PR
27 Mallard House
Townmead Road
London
SW6 2BF
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Perfect Knowledge PR would like to announce the launch of our new web site www.perfectknowledgepr.com. Prefect Knowledge PR is an independent consultancy aimed at the luxury media market.
Perfect Knowledge PR represents the private interests of Perfect Knowledge Ltd, which provides a premium bespoke service to [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Russian billionaires oligarchs favourite fixer and English lawyer met his horrifying death

It is 6.56pm on March 3, 2004. A brand new, six-seater, £1.5million Agusta A109E helicopter lands under an overcast sky at Battersea heliport in South London. Waiting impatiently and clutching his two mobile phones is a broad-shouldered lawyer named Stephen Curtis.
The 45-year-old climbs aboard and manoeuvres his bulky frame into a rear seat. At 6.59pm [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Millionaire Fair Moscow 2009

Held in Moscow for the first time, the Summer Fair is a smaller version of the giant luxury market, the Millionaire Fair. “It’s definitely smaller, but the level of the participants is higher,” said Yelena Kudozova, the managing director of the Millionaire Fair. She listed carmakers McClaren and jewelry brand Piaget as examples.
Highlighting the exclusivity [...]

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Abramovich Launches his new Mega Yacht

Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich’s mega-yacht ‘Eclipse’ has finally made a preliminary launch at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany where it was built secretly for more than two years. Estimated to have cost around $500 million, the vessel is nearly 170 meters long. It has room for 24 guests, with a crew of [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Saudi princess runs up £15 million shopping bill around the world

She has ignored her furious debtors and locked herself in her £2,500-a-night suite at the George V Hotel in Paris. When a royal aide was approached about settling the underwear bill he replied: “I’m afraid we can’t go around settling bills for the Princess’s knickers.” Princess Maha, whose husband, [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Press Release – Launch of new Public Relation Company – Perfect Knowledge PR

PRESS RELEASE
Press Office
Perfect Knowledge PR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Launch of new Public Relation Company – Perfect Knowledge PR
Perfect Knowledge PR offers a wide range of public relations services and communication solutions. These include corporate identity, integrated marketing communications, focused campaigns with controlled media profiles, editor level relationships, strategic advice, media PR and event marketing. Our target [...]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

A rich Arab sent his Lamborghini Murcielago on a 6,500-mile round trip to London for a service

The £190,000 supercar was put on a scheduled flight from Qatar to Heathrow – then flown back after the oil check. Money was no object as the flight would have cost the owner – thought to be a Sheikh – around £20,000.
The move sparked fury from green campaigners. An airport worker said: “This car doesn’t [...]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

The 10 richest models in the world

The age of the supermodel is definitely not over. The world’s top models have proved their earning power this year despite fashion designers downgrading their runway shows because of the recession. For the second year in a row, Gisele Bündchen, the Brazilian model tops Forbes magazine richest models list, based on estimated earnings from June [...]

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

The 5 most expensive hotel rooms in the world. Enter the world of the super rich, where spending almost £23,000 a night to stay at the world’s most luxurious hotels

Enter the world of the super rich, where spending almost £23,000 a night to stay at the world’s most luxurious hotels is nothing special. With help from Forbes here is our list of the five most expensive hotels in the world.
1. The Hotel Martinez, Cannes, France: Penthouse Suite
£22,900 a night – www.hotel-martinez.com
Situated on the famous [...]

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009