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quote: Brad buys $325m boatApril 12, 2007 - 10:05AMAngelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are treating themselves to an Italian luxury yacht fitted with a swimming pool, a heliport and a submarine.The yacht will be built in the shipyard of Civitavecchia, a port town north of Rome, by luxury shipbuilder Privilege Yard SpA, which said on Wednesday that the couple had commissioned an 85-metre-long yacht for $325 million.Delivery is set for July 2009.The passenger cabin will include two 300-square-metre apartments, plus two guest suites of 150 square metres each.Other features include a swimming pool, a heliport, speedboats and a small submarine that will allow guests to explore the sea up to a depth of 300 metres.
April 12, 2007 - 10:05AM
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are treating themselves to an Italian luxury yacht fitted with a swimming pool, a heliport and a submarine.
The yacht will be built in the shipyard of Civitavecchia, a port town north of Rome, by luxury shipbuilder Privilege Yard SpA, which said on Wednesday that the couple had commissioned an 85-metre-long yacht for $325 million.
Delivery is set for July 2009.
The passenger cabin will include two 300-square-metre apartments, plus two guest suites of 150 square metres each.
Other features include a swimming pool, a heliport, speedboats and a small submarine that will allow guests to explore the sea up to a depth of 300 metres.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/04/12/1175971222023.html?from=top5
How on earth does $325 million buy you only an 85 meter long yacht?? Are they making it with crystals or something!?!
[ 04-12-2007: Message edited by: pungpui ]
By then ,both will probably be married to other people
quote:Originally posted by pungpui:How on earth does $325 million buy you only an 85 meter long yacht?? Are they making it with crystals or something!?![ 04-12-2007: Message edited by: pungpui ]
How on earth does $325 million buy you only an 85 meter long yacht?? Are they making it with crystals or something!?![ 04-12-2007: Message edited by: pungpui ]
This yacht will have some very fancy 'bells & whistles.' I suspect that the mini submarine alone could account for a huge portion of the cost. Plus, this is a custom designed one-off vessel, which adds to the tab. And lastly, the Dollar/Euro exchange rate is not very favorable to Americans at the moment, which also drives up the cost in USD.
Rich
Jonathan
Is this a publicity stunt? I doubt that they would invest that kind of money (or even if they have that knd of money) on a yacht. Oprah Winfrey is far richer (1.5 billion) than both of them combined and she leases a yacht if needed. She does however have a Boeing 737 on order to replace her much smaller private jet which she uses to travel between her studios in Chicago and home in Montecito, California.
Pam
i can't see anyhow why this should be posted on a cruising site
That must be some yacht. But what waste of money. These people that get rich because the public is for some strange reason obsessed with them, do they do any good with the money? Do they build town in africa(that kind of money could do alot there) No. They go an buy the most expensive yacht they can find. Like they really need a yacht that costs more than some cruise ships.
quote:Originally posted by buddhaJoe:please delete this posti can't see anyhow why this should be posted on a cruising site
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quote:Originally posted by PamM:Ecstasea is more the size we are looking at and she cost reportedly around US$72m a couple of years back [maybe 3 now]. I don't think she has a sub?, so add a bit more and take into account the exchange rate fluctuation & price rises, perhaps the costs stated in the reports are a bit out.Pam
Ectasea is Roman A's second largest yacht after pelorus. I believe she is about 272' long and she is outfitted with a turbine, she's a big fast yacht.
quote:Originally posted by J.S.S.Normandie:What bothers me isnt the topic, or what people say, its the sickening behavior of the "celebrities". And that the people (primarily americans) hang on every thing these people do, making them richer so they can continue with behavior as such.
What bothers me isnt the topic, or what people say, its the sickening behavior of the "celebrities". And that the people (primarily americans) hang on every thing these people do, making them richer so they can continue with behavior as such.
EVERY country seems to have their celebrities that they follow.
Soon we will be getting Brits David Beckham and his nasty looking wife here in L.A.. Since most Americans don't care for soccer I don't understand the excitement.
They are in the market for a cozy little house here in L.A. in the $20-30 million dollar range.
By the way, Oprah Winfrey spent $40 million on a school in Africa last year and of course Bill Gates and Warren Bufffet give away billions every year through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation so all is not bad. Now we need to get the newest 2nd richest man in the World (Mexico's Carlos Slim) to loosen the purse strings but apparently charity is not his thing.
It is in the 'Idle Chatter' section is'nt it??
quote:Originally posted by J.S.S.Normandie:For that price you could have the France as a yacht..
Nobody wants the FRANCE. Nobody. If they did she wouldnt be stuck in the mud in India rotting and rusting away. She wouldnt have been sitting around for the last 3 years. She is where she belongs. On a beach getting ready to get cut up for scrap. Get past it.
Private citizens have the right to do with their money whatever they choose to do as long as its no breaking the law. Its their money, not yours.
No loving couple wants to be stuck on an oversized 1,000-ft cruise ship alone. If they wanted to charter a 50-60,000 ton cruise ship they could have. They wanted the intimacy, privacy, and convenience a private yacht can offer.
Several reports I have read indicate the true cost of the yacht to be around $140 million dollars.
quote:Originally posted by dmwnc1:Nobody wants the FRANCE. Nobody. If they did she wouldnt be stuck in the mud in India rotting and rusting away. She wouldnt have been sitting around for the last 3 years. She is where she belongs. On a beach getting ready to get cut up for scrap. Get past it.Private citizens have the right to do with their money whatever they choose to do as long as its no breaking the law. Its their money, not yours. No loving couple wants to be stuck on an oversized 1,000-ft cruise ship alone. If they wanted to charter a 50-60,000 ton cruise ship they could have. They wanted the intimacy, privacy, and convenience a private yacht can offer. Several reports I have read indicate the true cost of the yacht to be around $140 million dollars.
Correction: nobody with the money to do something about it, wants the France.
Secondly while people are starving in Africa, and other places of the world, two overpaid idiots are buying what is probably the worlds most expensive yacht, so they can sail around on it a couple months a year untill they get bored with it.
And also I am not saying somone would want a 1,000 + ft ship as a yacht(well except for me) I'm just saying it as a comparison.
A yacht may be the only place they can be that will offer some real privacy but I don't believe it would help their image and Angelina Jolie's charitable work w/UNICEF if they ordered such an expensive ship. They most likely would lease one as there are plenty available.
quote:Originally posted by Frosty 4:Even Bill Gates doesn't go for all the expensive toys. It was only a few years ago he bought a corporate jet for Microsoft.F4
His interesting waterfront home in Seattle seems to be his biggest toy but then again he lives there.
Even #2 richest Warren Buffet lives in the same modest home in Nebraska. He even drives a older model GM car-nothing flashy except the $50 plus billion dollars he is giving away everyday to charity. He won't even help his children or relatives w/money believing that they should earn their own.
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