"Adnan Khashoggi and wife attend the Soiree Tropezienne hosted by Denise Rich and ASMALLWORLD onboard Ms. Rich's yacht the 'Lady Joy' on July 24, 2008 in Saint-Tropez"
When Khashoggi began to experience cash flow problems in the early 1980s, the Sultan of Brunei seized control of the Nabila and eventually sold it to Donald Trump. He renamed it "Trump Princess"
In order to keep his gambling resort - the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City - afloat, Trump sold Trump Princess to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal in 1991 .. He renamed the yacht Kingdom 5KR
Now there's a story-and-a-half.. more context needed first tho 👇
"Buzz Aldrin and Co-host Denise Rich attend the Soiree Tropezienne hosted by Denise Rich and ASMALLWORLD onboard Ms. Rich's yacht the 'Lady Joy' on July 24, 200"
Yes Aldrin was/is a member of that club too 😏
"Tamara Ecclestone attends as Eva Longoria and Denise Rich host their Cannes Cocktail Evening, produced by Total Management and MandA Events, aboard the Lady Joy at Old Port on May 18, 2012 in Cannes"
A surprise waiting to happen there.. but I digress..
"Tara Reid (C) and Fawaz Gruosi attends as Eva Longoria and Denise Rich host their Cannes Cocktail Evening, produced by Total Management and MandA Events, aboard the Lady Joy at Old Port on May 18, 2012" #Cannes
"Denise Rich (L) and Hofit Golan attend as Eva Longoria and Denise Rich host their Cannes Cocktail Evening, produced by Total Management and MandA Events, aboard the Lady Joy at Old Port on May 18, 2012 in #Cannes"
According to Erik Prince, Unplugged's CTO built a phone that controls most of the world's pacemakers. 🤔
MIT Technology Review
"Erik Prince wants to sell you a “secure” smartphone that’s too good to be true
MIT Technology Review obtained Prince’s investor presentation for the “RedPill Phone,” which promises more than it could possibly deliver." technologyreview.com/2022/08/19/105…
The Times :
" Andrew Tate gets no love from his Cork cousins.
Tate’s Irish ancestry traces back to his great-great-grandfather Arnold Ashleigh, a British soldier stationed in Ireland" archive.is/eBsgN
" Tate’s mother, Eileen Tate, née Ashleigh, was born in Luton to Douglas Patrick Ashleigh, an Irish expat who moved from Limerick to Luton in the 1950s."
BBC : "Andrew Tate's first Romanian address is a far cry from the glitzy lifestyle he paraded in Bucharest before his detention - it's a squat, three-storey building with yellow walls, a short drive from the village of Sacele."..
"The villa at the end of Strada Narciselor sits at the end of a perilous road, ...
Inside it's divided into small functional apartments. This is where, in apartments 9 and 17, the Tate brothers began building their Romanian business empire.. bbc.com/news/world-eur…
"Vasile Mezdrea, a local developer, sold them the properties ..
"They paid in instalments ..," he said. "They had no car in those days - they used to take their girlfriends out shopping in taxis.""👀🎶
"Low-cost carrier Wizz Air announced three new routes from Bucharest, two additional aircraft, and a permanent base that will be established in the Romanian capital at the Băneasa Airport. The new base will open starting April 1, 2025"
Bucharest Pipera Airfield was located in the Pipera neighborhood of Bucharest, Romania..The airport no longer exists. A small military base, which also hosts the National Museum of Romanian Aviation, remains in the location where the airport used to be. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipera_Ai…
"During WW2, Pipera Airport was the main military airport in the Bucharest area. Some units of the Romanian Air Force units were flying IAR 80 fighters , while a unit under the command of Mihail Romanescu was flying Messerschmitt Bf 109s from there." rumaniamilitary.ro/general-de-esc…
"Musk and Thiel are just two among the 6,000 by virtue of being welcomed into the “superclass” by behind-the-scenes oligarchs who do not feature on the published lists of the world’s wealthiest men and women"
Links to the Pallavicini family 🍿