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Indeed, he is known for diamond dealing on the highest level, jumping on his private jet to sell stones to heads of state and, once, jetting off to his yacht in the Mediterranean with $150 million worth of stones in his pocket to rendezvous with a U.S. businessman on a less traveled stretch of sea between Italy and France. Of course, he sold all three of the famous stones he was carrying that...
...Hospital. The Theatricals will continue its commitment to the fund by taking a collection at every performance and by holding a charity show. “As we sail into our new theater with HPT’s 158th production, “Some Like It Yacht,” we intend to continue giving back to the community because we consider it a vitally important tradition of ours,” Dodd said. The 158th production of the Theatricals will open Feb. 24 at its new location at the Zero Arrow Street Theater...
Gaghan, Baer and Baer's then 13-year-old daughter Charlotte met up in Nice. Within a few hours, they were relaxing on the yacht of a former Fatah intelligence officer. Then a representative of the Carlyle Group, the global investment behemoth, anchored next to them. "It kept getting crazier and crazier," says Baer. "You could see Gaghan beginning to frame a picture." Part of the insanity was the disconnect between Baer and his old associates. "I'm an ex-bureaucrat," says Baer. "I have no money. I got a $70,000 advance for my book--which in their world...
...nuclear had a big future, she orchestrated a merger with the other state-owned nuclear company, Framatome, which built plants and mined uranium, to create the French colossus. She has sought to create a positive image for the firm, and for nuclear energy in general, by sponsoring the French yacht in the America's Cup race and by launching a worldwide corporate-branding campaign that uses animated figures set to the 1980 disco hit Funkytown. The intended message, company officials say: nukes are cool. Claude Mandil, executive director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, says that public-opinion considerations...
...been selling looted works. A former museum official says the museum did not buy anything it "knew or strongly suspected came from an illicit source." The Times also reported that the trust's president, Barry Munitz, has had the Getty spring for such perks as first-class plane tickets, yacht rentals and a Porsche SUV (which he reportedly directed should have "the biggest possible sunroof"). Because the Getty is a nonprofit institution, taxpayers would be underwriting his airline legroom, and the California attorney general is investigating the spending...