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Doomsday Architecture: Your Guide to Life in the Almost-Hereafter

James Porteous 3 April 2022 0 Comment

Are you rich enough? Strong enough? Bad-assesd enough? It is time to stop mucking about and just get that damn doomsday bunker built? Photo: Image: Brian McGowan / Unsplash 03 April 2022 | James...

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Is Comrade Putin Really Worth $200 Billion?

James Porteous 17 March 2022 0 Comment

“I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe but in the whole world: I collect emotions...’ Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin (Tass) 02 March 2022 | MAHNOOR KHAN | Fortune The Kremlin claims that Putin...

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Teen who tracked Musk turns his sights on Putin and his supperich pals

James Porteous 3 March 2022 0 Comment

Jack Sweeney is the aviation enthusiast who turned down Elon Musk’s money to stop tracking his plane’s movements. Photos in the gallery are said to include rare photos from inside one of Putin’s private...

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Divorce American Style: Personal-art fire-sale auction nets $676.1 million

James Porteous 18 November 2021 0 Comment

‘The energy in the room among specialists and onlookers was tense, as pressure mounted over the postwar trove that had been kept together for nearly five decades.’ Photo: Sotheby’s New York headquarters during the...

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A New York City Billionaire vs. Millionaire Penthouse Battle

James Porteous 16 November 2021 0 Comment

“If this doesn’t come out the right way, we’re going to see these shitboxes all over the city.” Photo: The proposed Norman Foster penthouse. Art: Foster + Partners 11 November 2021 | Kim Velsey |...

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British tax havens flourish even as Boris boasts about making the poor pay

James Porteous 6 October 2021 0 Comment

Of the 18 legislatures across the globe that Westminster is ultimately responsible for, some are among the worst offenders in the world of money laundering, tax dodging, and financial secrecy. Photo: Tony Blair in 2003....

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Taking your kids on private jets can show them the real benefits of hard work

James Porteous 21 July 2021 0 Comment

No Photo Credit ‘It is of course essential that you take the time to cultivate an awareness that, well, most people don’t fly private. And never will.’ XO Private Jets | No date or...

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Facebook finally joins $1 trillion Valuation Club

James Porteous 29 June 2021 0 Comment

28 June 2021 | Jeran Wittenstein and Sarah Frier | Bloomberg via The OCR Facebook shares posted their biggest intraday gain in two months after it won a dismissal of two antitrust cases, pushing...

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The Needy Billionaire Race to Space

James Porteous 9 June 2021 0 Comment

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson could fly to space just a bit earlier than Blue Origin and SpaceX’s founders. DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images Move over, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk — Richard Branson may be the first...

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(Brand) Name-Dropping Inside Drake’s Manor Fit for a King

James Porteous 8 June 2021 0 Comment

Photo: Drake, in a Kapital sweatshirt and 1017 ALYX 9SM pants, with Rafauli in the lounge. By Mayer Rus Photography by Jason Schmidt Styled by Colin King Presented by Architectural Digest Remember the chintzy, pimped-out McMansions that...