― Kerry, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Lyra, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
The Libby Holman book Dreams That Money Can Buy is much livelier.
And then there's Michael Jackson Was My Lover by Victor Guitierrez. One of the creepiest books I've ever read.
― Arthur, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― suzy, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Ally, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― anthony, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
You'd probably just buy a huge poster of Jennifer Lopez and smear raspberries on it.
― Abbott, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 03:20 (seventeen years ago)
Flush with wealth from Broadcom Corp.'s 1998 public stock offering, computer chip magnate Henry T. Nicholas III made a few additions to his equestrian estate in Laguna Hills: hidden doors and secret levers, an underground grotto, tunnels and a 2,000-square-foot sports bar he called "Nick's Cafe."
But there was more, according to a claim made in court documents: plans for a "secret and convenient lair" with hidden entries for Nicholas to indulge his "manic obsession with prostitutes" and "addiction to cocaine and Ecstasy."
http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ap_billionaire_080604_mn.jpg
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 04:06 (seventeen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/ScroogeMcDuck_Comic.jpg
― J.D., Wednesday, 16 July 2008 04:37 (seventeen years ago)
secret AND convenient
― haitch, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 04:52 (seventeen years ago)
nice suit
― badg, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 05:55 (seventeen years ago)
George Harrison also fits the profile of interest in 'exotic' spirituality, and hermit-type retreat to gothic estate (complete with miniture version of the Matterhorn!).
His home in Australia looks nice...
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/homes/features/2007/08/harrison_article_082007
― Bob Six, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 06:46 (seventeen years ago)
Is it true Disney had an extensive library of pornography? His obsessive compulsive attitude towards clean hands is indicative of someone who might have something like that going on behind the scenes.
― Cunga, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 07:15 (seventeen years ago)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/7507894.stm
― The Wayward Johnny B, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 07:26 (seventeen years ago)
has anyone been reading about those feuding Indian billionaire brothers?
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 10:09 (seventeen years ago)
Nicholas, as mentioned above, on his way into court today to get his cocaine trafficking charges thrown out:
http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-01/51905443.jpg
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:25 (sixteen years ago)
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00871/money-graphics-2008_871129a.jpg
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 28 January 2010 19:37 (sixteen years ago)
was sure this thread would be bumped for abramovich's €47k dinner for two
― genial anarchy (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 January 2010 21:45 (sixteen years ago)
would not go down those steps with that man
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 28 January 2010 21:47 (sixteen years ago)
― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, August 21, 2001 5:00 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark
― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 28 January 2010 21:49 (sixteen years ago)
The eldest Mr. Getty refused to pay the kidnappers anything, declaring that he had 14 grandchildren and “If I pay one penny now, I’ll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.” His son said he could not afford to pay.Three months after the abduction, the kidnappers, who turned out to be Calabrian bandits with a possible connection to organized crime, cut off Mr. Getty’s ear and mailed it, along with a lock of his hair, to a Roman newspaper. Photographs of the maimed Mr. Getty, along with a letter in which he pleaded with his family to pay his captors, subsequently appeared in another newspaper. Eventually the kidnappers reduced their demands to around $3 million. According to the 1995 book, “Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty” by John Pearson, the eldest Mr. Getty paid $2.2 million, the maximum that his accountants said would be tax deductible. The boy’s father paid the rest, though he had borrow it from his father — at 4 percent interest.
Three months after the abduction, the kidnappers, who turned out to be Calabrian bandits with a possible connection to organized crime, cut off Mr. Getty’s ear and mailed it, along with a lock of his hair, to a Roman newspaper. Photographs of the maimed Mr. Getty, along with a letter in which he pleaded with his family to pay his captors, subsequently appeared in another newspaper. Eventually the kidnappers reduced their demands to around $3 million. According to the 1995 book, “Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty” by John Pearson, the eldest Mr. Getty paid $2.2 million, the maximum that his accountants said would be tax deductible. The boy’s father paid the rest, though he had borrow it from his father — at 4 percent interest.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/world/europe/08gettyobit.html?_r=1&hpw
― buzza, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 21:40 (fifteen years ago)
is this being covered in another thread?
It was SpaceShipTwo’s fourth trip to the edge of space since 2018, and Virgin Galactic, the company Branson founded in 2004, says it will soon start flying paying customers regularly on similar jaunts, opening a new era in human space exploration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/11/richard-branson-virgin-galactic-live-updates/
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 11 July 2021 17:40 (four years ago)