Saudi prince’s $300 million boy-toy
p2pnet news | Off Topic:- As the first owner of an Airbus A380, Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud plans to turn it into a flying palace.
“While the price of the double-decker super luxury jet remains unknown, it is believed to be well in excess of the list price for a standard model, which comes in at just over $300 million,” observes the Gulf Daily News.
And that doesn’t even include the $$$ the prince will spend to custom fit the nearly 6,000-square-foot plane to include whatever he wants, says the Toronto Star, “private bedrooms, of course, and perhaps a movie theatre and a gym with a Jacuzzi.
But it’s all pocket change for Alwaleed, Citigroup Inc’s biggest individual shareholder and the world’s 13th-richest man. Saudi Arabia is the biggest oil-producer, but oil isn’t the main source of his fortune, which Forbes magazine estimates to be $20.3 billion.
Aged 52, he controls Kingdom Holding with stakes in the likes of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, AOL, Motorola, the Walt Disney Company and, of course, Apple.
“As of 2007, he was believed to be in talks with Robert Earl, founder of Planet Hollywood, about taking a controlling stake in the English Premier League’s Everton FC,” says the Wikipedia.
Also See:
Gulf Daily News – Alwaleed to buy flying palace, November 13, 2007
Toronto Star – A shopaholic to end all shopaholics, November 13, 2007
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November 14th, 2007 at 11:52 am
“Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al” I am not amused. This is parasittism on a grand scale! Something is seriously wrong!
November 15th, 2007 at 3:59 am
WHAT WILL THIS PLANE BE USED FOR?
“Something is seriously wrong”
Indeed it is. But lets remember, these parasites are supported by all religions and world “leaders” such as Bush (daddy is even a partner of the parasites), and the witless all over the world, especially those that support monachies, all while these Saudi parasites suck gasoline and other petroleum by products consumers all over the world.
America beware. Thre last Saudis who learned piloting used the planes as missiles against America. What will this plane be used for? What tare the possibilities?
August 2nd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
yo dis man is only doing good so shut up talking crap about him