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...they aren't connected to the mainland when they're here because everything is the same," says Longmaid, who lives on Spectacle Island with his girlfriend from May to October and rents a second house to guests. The couple spends the winter in Florida, where he works as a yacht captain...
...Will’s poseurish pomposity. Buckley only could maintain this balance because he understood that one must first have the benefit of intelligence before maligning the intelligent. As for elitism, he was an aristocrat par excellence, fond of Bach and sailing, and is rumored to have taken his yacht outside of U.S. waters so that he could smoke pot while preserving a proper conservative’s deference...
...secrets that Lady Sarah may have been privy to - particularly those regarding Diana's relationship with Dodi and the Royals. She didn't disappoint. She claimed that on August 29, 1997, just two days before the Princess's death, Diana phoned her from the Al Fayeds's luxury yacht to express her fear that she was under surveillance. "She thought the boat was being bugged by Mr. Al Fayed senior," Lady Sarah said...
...Abramoviches It's not hard to spot the influence of this aristocracy. At London's famed Harrods department store - a mecca for the moneyed international community - a personal shopping service allows globe-trotting customers to order a six-figure wardrobe with one phone call or arrange to have their yacht spruced up in 24 hours with a single e-mail. At Selfridges department store, a new one-stop luxury section called the Wonder Room brings together the classics - Chanel watches, Tiffany silverware, Hermès scarves - with more audacious items like the gold-plated, diamond-encrusted Vertu phone decorated with...
...expensive antiques. Loud paintings of harems and the ruling Sabah clan hang near Louis XVI enameled clocks and candlesticks in the long hallways. Enormous, overstuffed sofas squat on a collection of rare antique carpets in room after empty room. Behind the palace, two speedboats and a large yacht protected behind the Emir's man-made harbor obscure the otherwise lovely view of the Persian Gulf...