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  • Trump to Profit from Presidency

    Trump to Profit from Presidency

    Donald Trump claimed he would not profit from being President; it seems that was just another of his lies

     

    Braggart and President-elect Donald Trump was very keen to announce he wouldn’t take the £456,000 ($569,000, €537,000 or درهم‎‎2.1 million) salary and expenses that goes with his new job, but now it looks as if he’ll make a hell of a lot more if what the New York Post is suggesting comes true.

     

    According to the paper, it is expected that Trump – whose daily security bill is already topping £801,000 ($569,000, €944,000 or درهم‎‎3.7 million) – will lease two floors of vacant space within Trump Tower to the Secret Service to house upto 250 agents and cops.

     

    Given the prevailing rental rates in the building, Mr Trump looks set to rake in £2.4 million ($3 million, €2.8 million or درهم‎‎11 million) in rent; so much for not profiting.

     

  • Powering a Wedding

    Powering a Wedding

    Publicity seeking duo share details of their wedding – prepare to be amused at the bizarre details of their ridiculously over-the-top nuptials

     

    New York based Norah Lawlor is undoubtedly a talented PR and her ability to create something out of nothing is a quality that we at The Steeple Times admire. The stories that one or two of her clients wish to put out, such as that of a Texan teenager who had a £1.4 million 15th birthday party, however, undoubtedly rightly attract comments of shock and disgust and yesterday, something similar popped into our inbox of equal ridiculousness.

     

    In the missive, the nuptials of a self-described “Power Couple” named Ashley Taylor Cooper and Ernesto Argüello, whose marriage occurred at New York’s St Patrick’s Cathedral with a reception and wedding dinner at the Plaza Hotel on Saturday 15th October, are described in detail. As well as sending “every guest a briefcase with a [bizarre Danielle Steele-esque] video message [filmed in Colombia]”, the pair listed their international guest list of 400 names and communicated that they had used “Beyoncé’s sought after florist”, a celebrity cake-maker and a 10 year old “Instagram star” named Vivian Hicks.

     

    The couple, who are described as co-founders of Snap2Live, will honeymoon in Iceland, Finland, Spain, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Australia and Fiji. Do keep up!

     

    Photograph: Oscar Castro.

     

  • Topping a sale

    Topping a sale

    Highest penthouse in western hemisphere sells for £67.5 million

     

    On Friday, the property news site 6sqft reported that a Saudi billionaire had just paid £67.5 million ($87.7 million or €78.6 million) for a New York penthouse at 432 Park Avenue that is currently the highest of any in the western hemisphere.

     

    According to the site, the 8,255 square foot full-floor penthouse retail magnate Fawaz Al Hokair has bought is 1,936 feet up the tower and “offers unparalleled views… through the tower’s signature 10-foot-by-10-foot windows as well as six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a wood-burning fireplace and heated bathroom floors”.

     

    The asking price for the apartment had been £73.1 million ($95 million or €85.1 million).

     

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  • Douglas Durst

    Douglas Durst

    “Real estate royal” Douglas Durst had his leg amputated in 2015 and is the brother of the cross-dressing body dismemberer and suspected killer Robert Durst. The part owner of one of America’s top organic farms, Durst is a prominent environmentalist and owns, as part of his $5.2 billion portfolio, a $100 million or 10% stake in the new One World Trade Centre building. Of him, Donald Trump once bizarrely tweeted: “Personally, I think Douglas Durst’s brother got screwed by Douglas – no wonder he’s angry”.

     

     

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  • Quote of the Week – Annoying Anna

    Quote of the Week – Annoying Anna

    Oliver Estreich perfectly sums up Anna Wintour’s gathering of the brazen and the not so bashful (more…)

  • The world’s highest paid estate agent

    The world’s highest paid estate agent

    New York realtor paid £29.9 million in 2015 (more…)

  • Daniela Zahradnikova

    Daniela Zahradnikova

    Daniela ZahradnikovaThe 42-year old ex-girlfriend of 86-year old New York art collector Henry Buhl was christened a gold-digger after she sued him for £1.1 million ($1.5 million) after claiming that he had said he would provide for her “for the rest of her life”. (more…)

  • Wally of the Week: Martin Shkreli

    Wally of the Week: Martin Shkreli

    Exploitative pharmaceutical price gouger Martin Shkreli arrested on suspicion of running a Ponzi scheme (more…)

  • A rare roadster

    A rare roadster

    “Supremely rare” 1959 BMW 507 roadster to be auctioned in New York on 10th December 2015 (more…)

  • Taking Aston to another level

    Taking Aston to another level

    Aston Martin to be sold in New York could fetch in excess of £10 million and become the highest priced British car ever to be hammered down at auction (more…)