Tag: Wealthy

The world’s most expensive new car: Rolls-Royce unveils its one-off Arcadia Droptail – a bespoke vehicle for a wealthy client that costs £25M

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A combination of inflation and an eye-watering level of opulence sees the arrival of the planet’s new most expensive car. 

Rolls-Royce has unveiled a one-of-a-kind bespoke Droptail coachbuilt luxury motor – the third of four commissioned individually by a super-wealthy customer – that costs a jaw-dropping £25million!

Named Arcadia – after the mythical ‘Heaven on Earth’ of Ancient Greek legend – the sumptuous two-seater roadster has been uniquely fashioned over more than four years to fit the character and tastes

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Staggering videos capture the world’s most LUXURIOUS hotel suites from the point of view of their VERY wealthy guests – from a $38,000 penthouse in Sydney to an ENORMOUS $75,000 Las Vegas pad

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Butler service, unbeatable views and plenty of space to play with; these are just some of the perks that come with luxury hotel suites as these travel influencers reveal. 

A number of TikTok creators have gone about seeking out the some of the world’s most expensive hotel suites, to offer their followers an exclusive peek inside. 

One video uploaded to the TikTok channel @mansiontok, takes viewers inside a $14,000 Encore Three Bedroom Duplex suite at the Wynn Las Vegas, where

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Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Foundation suffers £8.7m drop in donations: Sussex’s charity received £1.6million from two wealthy benefactors last year with losses hitting £537k – as boss James Holt pockets £133k pay rise

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Donations to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Foundation have plunged by $11million (£8.7m) in the past year – sending it into the red – with boss and the couple’s right-hand man James Holt handed a massive 280% payrise, it was revealed today.

The Sussexes have a released their charity’s annual report and a glitzy promotional film showing their good works in 2023 – but it has also emerged that its finances have dived.

An income tax return filed in

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Kamala Harris to hold ‘grassroots reception’ on wealthy Martha’s Vineyard

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Vice President Kamala Harris will oddly hold a “grassroots reception” on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts on behalf of the Biden-Harris re-election campaign, despite the island being a playground for America’s rich and famous.

According to a report by The Vineyard Gazette, the Saturday fundraiser will be hosted by the Biden Victory Fund as well as a number of wealthy individuals, including a bank executive, former Obama official, a political consultant and actor Wendell Pierce.

It’s unclear why the event is

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Super yacht gym designer lays bare the WILD world of wealthy workout spaces – from clients requesting $50K teak-and-bronze dumbbells to demands for HERMES bench presses

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When it comes to gym design, these super swanky fitness studios pack a punch. 

Installed aboard multi-million dollar super yachts, these gyms are in a league of their own, with equipment catering to fitness fanatics with very fine tastes.  

Edward Thomas has spent almost a decade specializing in super yacht gym design, and he told DailyMail.com that the requests can range from the sublime to the ridiculous. 

His most expensive installation cost more than $300,000.

Edward Thomas has spent almost

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The inside guide to how the wealthy are weathering the Big Squeeze this summer… by scrimping on manicures, sharing main courses – and Scotland rather than the Hamptons

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It’s only a couple of weeks into summer and already I’m annoyed. Tormented by incessant rain and tourists asking for directions to the closest shisha bar — Knightsbridge is not what it is made out to be — I am nostalgic for happier times.

Times when one door closing (at my boys’ school, when they broke up for summer) meant another opening (at the British Airways first or business-class lounge in Terminal 5).

The good days, when my mortgage payment

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War comes to Putin’s doorstep: Wealthy Moscow region is hit by kamikaze drones

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Moscow was attacked this morning by suspected Ukrainian kamikaze drones just hours after Vladimir Putin unleashed a volley of similar strikes on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

Buildings were damaged in wealthy suburbs in the south-west of the Russian capital were hit, including the elite district of Rublyovka. 

Explosive drones struck blocks of flats in Leninsky Prospekt and Profsoyuznaya Street about six miles from the centre of Moscow, reportedly wounding several residents and damaging the buildings.

Russia’s defence ministry claimed

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Wealthy Countries Have Left the Rest of the World Behind

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