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High above the clouds, at 35,000 ft., Adnan Khashoggi's DC-8 is cruising noiselessly toward his estate in Marbella, Spain. His guests, sipping 1961 Chateau Margaux from crystal goblets with triangular silver bases, lounge on the jet's cream-colored chamois-and-silk banquettes. His masseur, his valet, his barber and his chiropractor -- they accompany him everywhere -- are relaxing as well because "A.K.," as he is known to his employees, is fast asleep on the $200,000 Russian sable spread covering his 10-ft.-wide bed in one of the plane's three bedrooms...
...estimated $250,000 a day to support his life-style. His twelve estates around the world include a 180,000-acre ranch in Kenya and a $30 million apartment that takes up two entire floors of a luxury building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. He has homes in Marbella, Paris, Cannes, the Canary Islands, Madrid, Rome, Beirut, Riyadh, Jidda and Monte Carlo. His 282- ft. yacht Nabila (complete with helicopter) makes Queen Elizabeth's Britannia look like a package-tour ship. His fleet includes three commercial- size jets, twelve stretch Mercedes limousines, a total of 100 vehicles and a stable...
...place in his 30,000-sq.-ft. quarters incorporating the 46th and 47th floors of the Olympic Towers in Manhattan. Created out of 16 separate apartments, the abode has a pool that overlooks the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral. What will the host wear to his soiree? At Marbella there is a small warehouse, called the Central European Distribution Center, for Khashoggi's clothes. More than 1,000 handmade suits, encased in plastic and ranging from size 46 to 56 to accommodate Khashoggi's shifting figure, line the walls, sorted by color. The clothes are shipped to each...
...Sudan, his multibillion- dollar plan to turn the desert nation into a breadbasket failed when his friend President Jaafar Numeiry was deposed. Khashoggi is also suffering smaller indignities. French authorities last week seized his DC-9 because he had not paid a debt to a British corporation. In Marbella a strike by some 60 servants demanding back pay was recently settled. "There are times," confides a close friend, "when he has difficulty scrounging together $200,000 of pocket money...
...Nice for $ 10 million in cash and other valuables. Spaggiari was nabbed by police for that heist, but escaped one year later by jumping out the window of a magistrate's office where he was being questioned. A fugitive ever since, he was reportedly spotted recently near Marbella...