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...owes his success to a database-management program most Americans have never heard of--has taken full advantage of the fortune. For starters, Ellison could be a poster boy for Billionaire Chic. He drives expensive cars, loves beautiful women and jets off to exotic locations to sail his yacht. In Silicon Valley, where every day is casual Friday, the chairman of Oracle, based in San Mateo, Calif., dresses like the Prince of Wales. He shows up at industry functions in double-breasted suits, French cuffs and knuckle-size cuff links. He not only lives in a mansion designed like...
...avid scuba diver, LeBow has enjoyed the tycoon life-style to the hilt, operating from Florida's millionaire ghetto on Fisher Island. During the late 1980s, he chartered a jet to fly dozens of friends to a multimillion-dollar party in London to celebrate the launch of his private yacht, modeled after Queen Victoria's. He reportedly gave guests gold coins bearing a likeness of himself wearing a Lord Nelson hat. He has sold off some of his lavish baubles in recent years, but his profligate reputation remains a flaw. In the RJR fight, opponents delighted in propagating the slogan...
...proceeds with construction of a hotel on the two floors above the restaurant. "I never bribed anybody in my life," Copeland declared. Asked if he was a campaign contributor to Mayor Marc Morial, he said he couldn't remember. "But I did have a party for him on my yacht...
...worst moments," said French schoolteacher turned sailor CHRISTOPHE AUGUIN, "I said to myself that I am too young to die. But," he added philosophically, "you have to accept that possibility." Auguin, who last week broke the world record for nonstop solo circumnavigation of the world in a yacht, had plenty of bad moments over the almost 106-day journey. Only half of the 12 competitors in the Vendee Globe are expected to finish the race. Two were rescued by the Australian navy; one is still missing. "Finding your way through a field of icebergs," Auguin told Paris Match, "is like...
Well, not quite. Ovitz spent Christmas hopping from his new yacht, The Illusion, in the Bahamas to Auldbrass, Lethal Weapon producer Joel Silver's estate in South Carolina. From there he headed to Aspen, Colorado. He returned to Los Angeles to attend the funeral of Phil Weltman, his mentor at the William Morris Agency...