Friday 28 August 2009

Cold steel and the Billionaires Club



More news of holidaying yacht owners. Lakshmi Mittal, the steel billionaire, is mooring his yacht in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, this August.

He and his wife, Usa, were at the birthday celebrations for Fawaz Gruosi, who owns de Grisogono, the watch and jewellery maker, and who numbers the Saudi royal family among his customers.
Also there was JCB digger owner Sir Anthony Bamford and his wife, along with Russian oligarch Vladislav Doronin.

The party was thrown at the legendary Billionaires Club (above) by Flavio Briatore.

The Billionaires Club is Flavio Briatore's ultra expensive hill top disco in Porto Cervo in Sardinia, only open in high season, from the end of June through August. Here you can send £10,000 on dinner alone in the restaurant, Cipriani, and splash $50,000 on a methuselah of Cristal.

It's near the harbour and awash with low lighting, Persian rugs and beautiful people.

But be warned, the New York Times reported recently that the hotspot has gone downmarket lately - why, some recent visitors aren't even millionaires, let alone billionaires!

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