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...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's top earner, having made $960 million in 2003. In fact, says his senior aide, "He has cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Roman Retreat? | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

Helene Veret and her architect husband, Jean-Louis, have long known the perils of fire. After a 1970 blaze swept through their four hectares near the village of Plan-de-la-Tour, 20 km north of the Gulf of St. Tropez, Jean-Louis had his house hewn out of a rock cliffside so fire would pass over it. But after the fires of the past 10 days, that troglodyte house is all that is left of the Vérets' summer retreat. Flames laid waste to everything, leaving only the skeletons of a few cork oaks and the aluminum kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The Flames, The Blame | 8/3/2003 | See Source »

...Despite the legendary psychedelic flavor of those full moon parties and the epochal madness of three-day Goan raves, few globally renowned DJs emerged from the scene as so many did from other party spots like Ibiza or St. Tropez. Koh Phangan never produced a Sasha or Tall Paul, a deck maestro who made his name under the full moons before jetting off to earn $20,000 a night spinning at Cream or Ministry of Sound. Instead, the Asian raves coughed up Tsuyoshi, who first brought Shiva to the Tokyo dance floor a decade ago during his DJ residence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Circuit | 11/11/2002 | See Source »

...lane road linking the southern French village of Ramatuelle to the sparkling Mediterranean waters off Saint-Tropez snakes down through an idyllic jumble of twisted holm oak trees, jagged white rock, sunbaked farmhouses and acres of lush green vineyards. But this scenic stretch of Route Départementale 61 could also be lined with grave markers and memorials to drivers like Francis Manzoni. One February afternoon, a local youth who'd been drinking attempted to pass another car on a curve, lost control and hit Manzoni's auto head on - killing him instantly. The accident was iconic of a plague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadliest Roads In Europe | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

...frills airlines continue their growth, it seems that everyone's a winner - travelers, regional airports and local communities. And now even Siena and St. Tropez can dream of becoming the next Klagenfurt, La Rochelle or Aarhus

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheap and Cheerful | 8/4/2002 | See Source »

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