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...company), half of his 50% stake in the RusAl aluminum monopoly and his stake in Aeroflot airlines. Last July, he bought Chelsea for $230 million and spent another $190 million on new players. Four months later Abramovich paid $48 million for a six-story house in Belgravia, London, to complement his $20 million estate in West Sussex in southern England and his home in St. Tropez, France. While Khodorkovsky watched from behind bars as Yukos lost 40% of its worth (taking his own net worth down with it), Abramovich topped the Sunday Times Annual Pay List as Britain...
...effort to keep pace with the competition, Peter Jones recently opened The Top Floor, a sleek, fully licensed café with seating for 270 and an espresso bar overlooking Belgravia. Joe Teixeira, head of catering, says the new venue caters not just to the ladies who lunch and their offspring, but a whole new market. "We get the stylish shopper eating here too," says Teixeira, adding that a second restaurant with a café-society theme opens next year. "The store is modernizing its retail and it made good business sense to do the same with the food." In March...
...discovered by slumming music critic, goes on to pen smash biblical epic Jesus Christ Superstar and monster hit Evita, splits with pal, has megatriumphs with Cats and Starlight Express, then comes up with extra-hot spook, The Phantom of the Opera. Along the way swaps bell-bottoms for swank Belgravia flat, 1,350-acre English country estate, choice property on the French Riviera, $6 million apartment in Manhattan, private jet, beautiful second wife and a worldwide musical empire that, conservatively, rings his personal cash register to the tune of $12 million a year...
...idea of the imperious King as a coup maker sounded farfetched, but there was no dispute that a meeting had taken place. King had appeared at Mountbatten's Belgravia flat accompanied by Cudlipp. Sir Solly Zuckerman, a friend of Mountbatten's, was also present when King suggested that Mountbatten head a new government after the fall of Wilson. Snapped Zuckerman: "This is treachery. I will have nothing to do with it." Then he stormed out of the room...
...haste to cash in, some dealers are heaving precious pieces into the melting pot. Says John Culme, head of the silver department at Sotheby Belgravia: "People did the same thing during the Great Depression. Really wonderful Victorian centerpieces, tea sets and even 18th century dinner plates were melted down and lost...