Vancouver Forum: 52 thousand dollar lunch, part 3

and I thought I was rich! haha..
ps.. thanks for AA levy for this post could not have happened without you.haha..



First, there was the recent soft-launch of his yacht, the world’s largest.

Then there was his purchase of a $90 million estate in St. Bart’s.

Now comes word of a $52,000 lunch in Manhattan.

According to TMZ, Mr. Abramovich hosted nine guests at Nello’s on the Upper East Side on Friday. The tab came to $47,221.09. He added another $5,000 tip (on top of the $7,328 gratuity already included) for a total of $52,221.09.

In an email, a spokesman for Mr. Ambramovich denied the bill was Mr Abramovich’s. He said Mr. Abramovich did eat at the restaurant but that the “party spent no more than a tiny fraction of that amount - less than a couple of percent.”

A manager at the restaurant declined to comment.

The bill shown by TMZ, however, is rich with details–and explains how someone could rack up a $52,000 bill. The main culprits: wine and truffles.




There were the three bottles of La Tache, for $5,000 each (alas, the bill doesn’t give the vintage). There were the two bottles of Petrus, also at $5,000 each. And two bottles of Cristal Rose, at $5,000 each.

The food was typical Manhattan, with most entrees going for $50 or less. But the group had two orders of truffle carpaccio for $100 each, and three truffle taglionis for $585.

Is this shocking and abhorrent at a time when so many in the U.S. are losing their homes and jobs?

That is one way to look at it.

Another way is to thank him for being a one-man stimulus package. Beyond the lunch, I’m sure the Abramovich visit included plenty of shopping, hotels, drivers, nightclubs, and (perhaps) artwork at this week’s big auction nights.

And as a New York resident, I look at the $3251.89 tax line and have two simple words for Mr. Abramovich: Thank you.

What do you think of the Abramovich lunch bill?

side note:

Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich rose from obscurity and successfully navigated the shady world of early Russian privatisation to become one of the world’s wealthiest self-made billionaires. His 40-man private army of security personnel make him one of the best-protected businessmen in the world, and when his private gigayacht the Eclipse is handed over in time for Christmas this year, it will be the largest (at a staggering 560ft) and most expensive (at US$1.2 billion) private yacht the world has ever seen. Security will be as tight as you’d expect, with missile defence and intruder detection systems – but the Eclipse’s most notable feature is a privacy system that can detect the digital cameras of snooping paparazzi and blind them with laser bursts, ruining spy photos…

Eclipse



his other boat pelorus (which he's gonna keep, he has 2 other ones also)

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dude blows through money like MJ did before he died

This week's picture is for an Audi A8 car made from pure silver for a sheikh in Dubai. Not silver colour but pure silver!!


the audi looks like shite for how much it's worth with all the real silver on it

Okay, just because I posted this doesn't mean I like it (unlike those super boats)

but it's all real diamonds..

PS, the song grew on me..

And yet people are living in alleys.

rich people can do whatever they want. They can care about the poor, but they don't have to care if they don't want to. It's their money. People can talk smack about rich people wasting money, but the fact the matter is, they are rich.

Kill the rich.