Billionaires "mean" do not stint

Finansy22-12-2010 Billionaires "mean" not sparing According to magazine Forbes, the most expensive private purchases among the world's billionaires in the past year did Roman Abramovich, who purchased the New Holland Island in St Petersburg for $ 400 million. As the newspaper notes, Abramovich plans to make the island a tourist center and open it in galleries, hotels, shops and office centers. It is interesting that, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, Abramovich has undertaken and the most expensive purchase in 2009. It was a megayacht Eclipse, which was estimated at $ 1.2 billion this year Abramovchiv Top-up personal fleet yacht Luna, which is adapted for navigation in high latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic. Its cost is estimated at $ 100 million in second place in the Forbes ranking of the most expensive purchases of the year turned out to American billionaire Steven Cohen, who bought a trendy picture of Andy Warhol Coca-Cola, as well as the work of Jasper Johns' Flag, "to which he It took more than $ 145 million. Billionaire Mian Muhammad English Channel from Pakistan had paid $ 85 - $ 95 million to purchase the hotel St. James Hotel & Club in London. How to count in Forbes, one room at the hotel cost the Pakistanis in the amount of about half a million dollars.