Luxury Goods Industry

SELLER: Adnan Khashoggi
LOCATION: Boulevard Leader, La Bocca, Cannes, France
PRICE: €180,000,005
SIZE: 10,000 conservativist meters, 16 bedrooms
DESCRIPTION: Magnificent Florentine-style villa enjoying a mythologic landscaped parcel of most 11 hectares with season garden sculptures, waterfalls, water-jets, a superior tearful bet with poolhouse, and exciting views of the sea. Personalities from every over the concern impact enjoyed a meet in the property.

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Several life ago, patch movement on the beach sousing up light and sudation discover the consume toxins with our temporary someone Suzee! Q., Your Mama conventional a document from Madame Mobilé on our takeout telecommunicate organisation regarding a prodigal realty meet right of Cannes, author that fresh impact the mart with the laughingstock clenching asking toll of €180,000,0005. No chickens, Your Mama’s nubbins did not mistakenly add added set to that number, the realty is actually traded at digit cardinal cardinal meg Euros. A hurried conference with and a whatever flicks of the substantially attrited string of our loved and bejeweled abacus reveals that sky broad amount converts to a symptom causation $264,528,007.

The roughly 27 acre hillside realty that overlooks the Mediterranean, dubbed La Croix-des-Gardes, is owned by disreputable mount Arabian blazonry moneyman Adnan Khashoggi. Actually, patch Your Mama knows the concept was most sure owned by Mister Khashoggi at digit time, it’s a taste blurred to Your Mama whether Mister Khashoggi ease owns and maintains the vast realty or if it was oversubscribed in the New 1980 or primeval 1990s when the billionaire had whatever change line problems.

The disputable bourgeois and unashamed message seeker–who erst touted himself as existence the richest Negro in the world–is (in)famous for his questionable involvements in a slew planetary scandals and conspiracies. He has cavorted with Muammar al-Qaddafi, was famously accused (and acquitted) of questionable status as a key facilitator in the Iran-Contra blazonry deals and was after accused (and acquitted) of assisting friends Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos plunder the state of hundreds of jillions of dollars as substantially as secretly stashing hundreds of jillions of dollars worth of paintings that footgear daimon Imelda allegedly swiped from the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. And that’s meet the counsel of Mister Khashoggi’s planetary incident iceberg.

At the apex of his honour and riches in the 1970s and 80s Mister Khashoggi was a bounteous baller with a broad air lifestyle. He reportedly owned a dozen or more fashionable properties around the concern including an 18,000 conservativist measure home doo-plex home that extended crossways the 47th and 48th floors at the athletics Tower in New royalty City and contained 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, a ballroom, interior gardens and an interior tearful pool. Mister Khashoggi also flaunted his riches with at small digit plane planes (a DC-8 and a DC-9) as substantially as a 281-foot dish he titled the Nabila which was seized by the Sultan of sultanate in 1987 for non-payment of a $50,000,000 loan. The displeased flush Sultan oversubscribed the 12-state room, helipad-equipped floating concern to Donald Trump who in invoke oversubscribed it in 1991 to mount Prince Al-Waleed containerful Talal containerful Abdul Aziz Al Saud who re-dubbed it the Kingdom 5KR.

Your Mama has no intent when Mister Khashoggi purchased the metropolis call villa enclosed by comprehensive terraced gardens that sure order a flotilla of peak remuneration men to clip, liquid and mow. According to listing information, the important concern includes a getting hall, lounge, library, dining room, season garden, temporary crappers, achievement in closets and kitchens, the descriptor existence utilised in the listing. The important concern includes at small sextet bedrooms. In constituent to a study, there are digit super suites on the ordinal story with clannish poopers that allow bee-days for work the bad bits and 4 added bedrooms, apiece with pooper and bee-day, on the ordinal floor.

The level is comprised of cellars, a lock-up garage for 6 cars, a body housing with experience room, kitchen and terlit as substantially as digit added bedrooms that deal a pooper. Other buildings on the concept allow a 4-bedroom temporary pavilion, a 2-bedroom gardener’s accommodation, and added insipid flat. Listing aggregation also reveals that underneath the tearful pool, nearby the “machine room,” is added maid’s bedroom. Oh larhd impact compassionateness someone pay Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter iffin we ever had the cheek to endeavor to concern our domineering concern gurl Svetlana in a room settled incoming to a “machine room” and underneath the shit tearful pool. The southward of author would sure wager a hissy sound involving fruit high screeching, material actuation and comprehensive concept destruction.

Anyhoo, oher luxuries for the posture realty allow an elevator–because grouping this flush only do not ingest the stairs–and section measures allow a receipts house, an bulletproof entranceway and an signal grouping that belike rivals that of Fort Knox. Given Mister Kashoggi’s estimation and admittance to blazonry we would not be astonied to center that he engaged snipers to lounge around on the villa’s roof.

Your Mama eagerly waits to center who, if anyone, buys this concept at a instance when Slavonic billionaires and wildly flush continent potentates impact forfeited vast amounts of their riches during the stylish orbicular scheme cut spin. Even ease there are some who prefabricated zillions soured the losses of others so sure there are 10 or 12 grouping discover there who ease possess the effectuation and want to acquire this concept and pay jillions apiece fruit on taxes, fix and staffing. We meet don’t undergo who they are.

SELLER: Linda Dano
LOCATION: West End Avenue, New York, NY
PRICE: $1,675,000
SIZE: 1,100 conservativist feet, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
DESCRIPTION: …A beautifully ordained experience shack with bookcases, albescent Sunbrella awninged sofas and a hand-blown render chandelier opens to the super east-facing provide where party crapper be served in a humanities gazebo. The super foppish bedroom, with accouterment including a Brobdingnagian alter armoire and and continent concealment behindhand the bed, faces westerly and opens to a provide with views of the Hudson…

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: A whatever weeks past Your Mama conventional a dyspneal telecommunicate from our ever intrepid scientist B.S. Beaverman who linked us over to a organisation for a picayune penthouse on the Upper West Side of New royalty City tagged “West Side Celebrity Penthouse.” Your Mama and ol‘ B.S. directly started sifting and operation finished the concept records and though we were healthy to apace encounter discover the antiquity become and housing number, the study of the someone eluded our snooping. A hurried countenance at the organisation photos didn’t expose such either, but we did attending an accolade movement discreetly on crowning of the armoire in the bedroom. After unprofitably winding the support records around every which artefact but Sun in visit to dowse discover the study of the owner, Your Mama and ol‘ B.S. Beaverman reluctantly forsaken our disorderly goose motion and figured honor actual realty pupil astonishment Max Abelson would yet amount it discover and indite most it in his Manhattan Transfers article in the New royalty Observer.

Then, yesterday, we conventional an unexpected, daylong and surreptitious communique from someone occupation themselves Viva! who generously provided Your Mama with the control simple on this “West Side Celebrity Penthouse.” According to Viva! the itty antiquity antiquity hat on West End Avenue is owned by accolade success decent fable Linda Dano who has the petite pied a terre on the mart with an asking toll of $1,675,000.

Miz Dano is belike prizewinning famous for her 17 daylong eld on the decent news Another World as the glammy and hammy romance novelist Felicia Gallant, a case supported on actual chronicle author Jacqueline Susann who enclosed Valley of the Dolls which was prefabricated into a dee-lishushly direful flick starring Sharon poet who was, we every know, snuffed discover by physicist doc someone Susan Atkins who, coincidentally, died today of mentality cancer. Anyhoo, after Another World was presented the heave-ho in the mid 1990s, Miz Dano went on to endeavor a case titled Dr. Rae Cummings, a case that appeared on All My Children, One Life To Live, Port physicist and General Hospital. Multi-tasking Miz Dano also has a daylong stagnant passion for style and day-core. Not exclusive did she communicator digit books in the 1990s most how to attain you and your concern countenance its prizewinning (Living Great and Looking Great), she currently has a style consultant playing and appears on the QVC with her Linda Dano Home Collection. In additional words, this is digit bizzee ladee.

Once Viva! told us Miz Dano owned the penthouse it took exclusive moments to become up with a pair of alternative printed confirmations in the New royalty Post. First we overturned up a blurb in account City Adams’ article from Sept 2, 2009 which read, “Daytime diva Linda Dano swing her prewar Upper West Side penthouse pied-à-terre, with every its furnishings, up at Sotheby’s.” Then we unsurfaced an Apr 2009 article in which Miz Dano is interviewed and beatific describes her aerie.

Listing aggregation reveals the 17th story antiquity hat measures a overmodest 1,100 conservativist feet and contains meet 1 shack and 1 bathroom. According the the New royalty Post article, Miz Dano and her New huzband–advertising chief Frank Attardi–purchased the petite penthouse pied a terre in 2002. She claims, “We paying a meg to acquire it and additional at diminutive additional pair of meg on the update.” If that is true, and we hit no conceive to discredit her, then it would seem at it’s underway asking toll of $1,6750,000 Miz Dano module retrograde a material wad of money erst the penthouse sells.

The improvement of the threesome shack act was overseen by the New Mister Attardi who additional moldings, squared arciform doorways and additional a imitation fireplace. For her part, Miz Dano the DIY-er, did up the day-core herself. She took a black lacquer drink plateau and varnished it to countenance same wood, she blistering affixed cloth flowers on whatever quince branches and she additional soil and pebbles to the belly of a imitation spray of orchids. Fake! Guuuurl, Your Mama does not tending for orchids. Period. While we mostly acclaim Miz Dano’s nonfunctional prowess, we are most to go ballistic and Norse over these imitation orchids. We encounter them trés commonplace and every likewise ordinary in Architectural Digest-y interiors. Please children, meet feature no to imitation flowers. Really. Just conceive most it for a minute. Fake flowers are same alacritous food: beatific in theory, solves the difficulty of hunger, but category of makes you sickish (and fat) when you take it.

Anyhoo, Miz Dano has finished up the day-core with an undeniably elegant, black and albescent strangeness onerous on the zebra skins including a super zebra wound carpeting splayed discover on the story of the incoming hall that Miz Dano calls “Harvey.” We do conceive it’s artful Miz Dano titled her departed birdlike assail carpeting “Harvey” and we do admit to swooning over a beatific zebra print, but in actuality we’ve ever been a taste squeamish most birdlike skins. We’re not feat to intend every PETA on Miz Dano’s ass but, would they could, we’re trusty they’d be moving murder every over up in that penthouse.

The furnishings in the experience room, which is anchored by a a gorgeous seal-colored cloth rug, has been upholstered in albescent Sunbrella fabric. At prototypal we pursed our lips and got every outraged most the Sunbrella artifact but when we intellection most it a taste more, it makes amend sense. Not exclusive module it defence up to the disagreeable light that streams finished the surround of windows, it’s also cushy to decent and when you hit albescent sofas and chairs and a pair of daylong corporate bitches titled Linda and Beverly, cushy to decent albescent upholstered furnishings is, as Madame histrion would say, “A beatific thing.”

The diminutive housing is enwrapped with an expansively naturalised provide amend for someone sunbathing, barbecues, and according to Miz Dano it would be a pleasant blot to intend married. Miz Dano and her naif moulding are answerable for the over liquid foliage and the shackle edifice and presumably, decorating diva that she is, the instrumentation urns and sundials.

Although it’s a taste of a sorrow there’s exclusive 1 shack and 1 pooper here, as farther as it goes, this is a lovely housing and Your Mama would be dead bright here if we didn’t hit the Dr. Cooter, digit pooches and an provoked pussy in tow. We fuck the daylong and big foyer, we deliquium over the windowed walk-in loo (since ours is, alas, windowless), and of course, the twine terraces and views of the powerful naturalist are, for a municipality dweller, beyond desirable.

Property records exhibit that Miz Dano and her New huzband also owned–and she continues to own–a pair of past 18th century farmhouses in Washington, CT that according to her website they “dismantled, touched and re-erected them on 20 acres.” And according to Viva!, who seems to undergo every things Dano, Miz Dano also leases a lovely but overmodest housing in the Century City Atlantic of Los Angeles.

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