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☆ Your anonymous reviews may not stay that way
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Reservations site OpenTable will reportedly add users' first names to formerly anonymous reviews. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Now restaurant reservations service OpenTable has reportedly decided that the benefits of anonymous posting don't outweigh the costs. Related stories"We've heard from you, our diners, that trust and transparency are important when looking at reviews," the email said, adding that the move is meant to strengthen the "credibility" of OpenTable reviews, according to the news outlet.

Persons: —, OpenTable, We've, Glassdoor, King Tuttle's, Emperor Nero's, Kim Jongummm Organizations: Service, Holdings, Wired

☆ Billionaires' superyachts are bigger, better, and have more on board than ever
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

And if you don't have someone on board who can whip up a Michelin-star-worthy meal, you might as well stay on land. AdvertisementThe massage room aboard the Talisman C, a $60 million superyacht for sale at the Palm Beach show. The total value of the 203 superyachts over 30 meters delivered last year was $6.4 billion, according to data from SuperYacht Times. Pampering options, be it a massage room, manicure station, or a professional-grade facial machine, are a dime a dozen. Courtesy of Breed MediaAnd what good is a massage room if no one on board can give one?

Persons: —, Ralph Dazert, Burgess, Anders Kurtén, Kurtén, Nero superyacht, Giovanna Vitelli, Champagne, Benetti's, Donald Trump, Trump, Vitelli, they're, It's, Jeff Bezos, Dazert, everything's, Nero, Jeffrey Beneville, Lana, Bill Gates Organizations: Service, Michelin, SuperYacht Times, Palm, Yachts, —, Monaco Yacht Locations: Russian, superyachting

☆ Insiders still have no idea what's going to happen to Russian oligarchs' seized superyachts
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Many of their superyachts were seized or frozen, leading industry insiders to question their fate. The war prompted many governments to enact sanctions against Russia's richest, including seizing their superyachts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. At least a dozen superyachts — worth well over $1 billion combined — have been affected. Russia's sanctioned superyachts are hard to buy and sellThe first problem is that many of the yachts are "frozen" — not seized. "How does it look if you bought a Russian boat?"

Persons: It's, —, Russia's, I've, Julia Simpson, Thompson of Monaco, it's, Joshua Naftalis, Ralph Dazert, Alfa Nero, Eric Schmidt, Simpson Organizations: Service, Russia's, Palm, SuperYacht, Thompson, Pallas Partners, SuperYacht Times Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Russian, San Diego, Antigua, Barbuda, Maldives, Montenegro, Dubai

☆ The genius Roman creations that still amaze us today
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Guy Kesteven | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

That’s because Roman passions for outrageous, oversized architecture went hand in hand with detailed record-keeping and relentless imperial PR. We should warn you that the lines to get in now are likely even longer than the Roman ones though. While it was forgotten for over 1,000 years, this UNESCO World Heritage site now gets over 2,500,000 visitors a year. Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty ImagesWhat: Spectacularly preserved Roman portWhere: Libyan coastWhoa: Seeing is still not believingThe undoubted winner of the “most incredible Roman site you’ve never heard of” award is Lepcis Magna. That’s made this dramatic structure a designated UNESCO World Heritage site and well worth a visit on any Roman road trip across Europe.

Persons: Genghis, Marco Cantile, Volcanically, Pliny, hadn’t, That’s, Pont du, Pont, it’s, Mahmud Turkia, you’ve, Magna, Septimus Severus, “, Emperor Augustus, Tiberius, Domitian, Nero, Maximus, Don’t, Augustus, Vindolanda, Hadrian, Antonine, Aphrodisia, Caracalla, Caracalla aren’t, Diocletian, Guy Kesteven, Sarah, Freya Organizations: CNN, Scottish Borders, UNESCO, Heritage, Lepcis Magna, Getty, Coliseum, YouTube, Royal Holloway University Locations: Rome, Africa, Scottish, Italy, Herculaneum, Naples, Mount, Gardon, France, AFP, Libyan, Libya, Palatine Hill, Trier, Germany, Europe, England, Roman, Scotland, Anatolia, Turkey, Aphrodisia, Caracalla

Tokyo, Japan CNN —Tokyo Fashion Week concluded perhaps its most successful edition since the Covid-19 pandemic, with more international guests and buyers returning to Japan’s capital for the Fall-Winter 2024 edition. Up-and-coming labels were joined on the program by mainstays of Japanese fashion, like Mikio Sakabe. “Every person in Japan has their own style.”Scroll down for some of the best street style looks from Tokyo Fashion Week. Moeri Karasawa/CNNAttendee Bunta Shimizu wearing a colorful outfit at Tokyo Fashion Week on Thursday. Matt Jelonek/Getty ImagesGuests in eye-catching looks on the fourth day of Tokyo Fashion Week.

Persons: —, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake, Hanae Mori, Yu Masui, “, ”, Christopher Kane, Uniqlo, Natsumi Maso, Ryu Kobayashi, Soga Takahashi, Moeri Karasawa, CNN Ryu Kobayashi, Marc Jacobs, ” Kobayashi, Bunta Shimizu, Matt Jelonek, Ui, Yves Saint Laurent, Daisuke Fujii’s, Himari Semans, Daisuke Fujii, Sena, Karasawa, CNN Daikokudou Nero, Justin Shin, Yu, Ashley Williams, Reishito, Bill Whitten Organizations: Japan CNN, Tokyo, Tokyo Fashion, CNN Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Russia, “, Osaka, Himari

☆ Ancient Roman site of Pompeii is about to ‘expand’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

So with ever more tourists cramming onto the site, the team behind the archaeological park of Pompeii have found a plan B – dispersing visitors around ancient sites that are further afield, with all-in-one tickets and shuttles laid on between the sites. A shuttle service around the sites – the Pompeii Artebus – was piloted in 2021. The ancient city was the most visited heritage site in Italy on the last “Domenica al Museo” – state-run heritage sites have free entry on the first Sunday of the month. Tickets for the ‘scattered’ site will be valid for three days, with free shuttles connecting all the sites. The Villa dei Misteri at Pompeii will also get new lighting which will better replicate the original lighting in the villa.

Persons: we’ll, Stanley Tucci, Torre Annunziata, Gennaro Sangiuliano, Nero, Poppaea Sabina, Villa Arianna, Villa, Villa Poppaea, Poppaea, Libero, Sangiuliano Organizations: CNN, intel, Villa San Marco, Castellammare, Villa Regina, European Union, Major, Museo Locations: Boscoreale, Torre, Oplontis, Stabiae, Rome, Italy, –, It’ll, Civita, Castellamare

☆ A $120 million megayacht linked to a Russian billionaire was seized by authorities, and now residents of a small Caribbean nation are paying $28,000-a-week to maintain it, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A $120 million megayacht linked to a Russian billionaire has been docked in Antigua and Barbuda for 19 months. Now taxpayers in the small country are paying $28,000-a-week to maintain the idle vessel, per the WSJ. The Alfa Nero is a $120 million vessel that was raided by armed police and the FBI in August 2022, having been left in Antigua's Falmouth Harbor since Russia invaded Ukraine six months earlier. The US Treasury Department has linked the Alfa Nero to Andrey Guryev , a Russian oligarch who the department says is a "close associate" of Vladimir Putin. The Journal reports that the country's residents are paying $28,000-a-week in taxes to maintain the Alfa Nero, including the salary of an Italian captain and $2,000-a-day in diesel to keep its air conditioning running.

Persons: Nero, Alfa Nero, Andrey Guryev, Vladimir Putin, Eric Schmidt, Guryev's, it's, Joan Miró, Tom Paterson Organizations: Service, Street Journal, FBI, US Treasury Department, Bloomberg, Alfa, Guardian, Google Locations: Russian, Antigua, Barbuda, Caribbean, Wall, Silicon, Antigua's Falmouth Harbor, Russia, Ukraine, Falmouth Harbor, Italian

☆ Opinion: The 2,000-year-old advice for coping in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. A surprising number claimed to think about the ancient empire as often as ‘every day’ or least every week or two. It became a meme (are you even in a relationship if she hasn’t asked you about the Roman Empire? They marvel at their absolute dominion, their mastery of every strand of civilisation — and then how that power suddenly slipped away. Biden on Wednesday took steps to speed up the ability of Venezuelans in the US to obtain work permits.

Persons: CNN —, ”, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Bobby McFerrin’s musing, David M, Perry, hasn’t, Jo Ellison, —, Marcus Aurelius, that’s, David Perry, “ There’s, ” Perry, Paula M, Krebs, “, Donald Trump’s, Ron DeSantis, Trump, …, ’, ” Cupp, Roe, Wade, Cupp, he’s, Dean Obeidallah, Trump’s, Patrick T, Brown, Bill Bramhall, Content Agency Rupert Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, David Zurawik, Rupert, Murdoch, Roger Ailes, Richard Nixon, ” Murdoch “, Walt Handelsman, Kevin McCarthy, Max Burns, Donald Trump, today’s MAGA, ” Clay Jones, Chuck Schumer, Elena Sheppard, Sen, John Fetterman, baring, Fetterman, Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, Kim Yo Jong, Sung, Yoon Lee, “ Kim Yo Jong, Kim, Kim Jong, ” “, Hunter Biden isn’t, Alexis Coe, George Washington’s, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, George H.W, Bush, Hunter, … Hunter, Joe Biden, Biden, Peter Bergen, Mike Pence, … Biden, Bergen, ” Lisa Benson, Martin Sheen, Melissa Fitzgerald, Gurney, John F, Melissa, Andy, Michael Bociurkiw, ” Bociurkiw, Volodymyr Zelensky “, Zelensky, Lanhee J, Chen, ” Chen, Keir Giles, It’ll, Jennifer Wexton, Barbara Comstock, Alex Brandon, Jill Filipovic, Democrat “, ” Wexteon “, Eric Adams, Julian Zelizer . Biden, ” Don’t, David Horsey, Agency Frida Ghitis, Agatha Christie, China Adam H, Sobel, Holly Thomas, Russell Brand, Akanksha, Dan Perry, Gilead, Netanyahu government’s, Gene Seymour, Jann, Reggie B, Maren Morris, Matt Winkelmeyer, ” Maren Morris, Nicole Hemmer, Morris ’, Morris, Jason Aldean’s “, Oliver Anthony’s “ Rich, Richmond ”, “ Rich, ” Hemmer, Anthony himself, ‘, Hemmer Organizations: CNN, Financial Times, West Virginia University, Modern Language Association, WVU, West Virginia, Republican, Press, Florida Gov, White, Content Agency, Content Agency Rupert Murdoch Media, Fox News, Capitol, Agency, Democratic, fied Republican Party, Republican Party, Justice Department, Qatari, Amnesty International, Kennedy Center, UN, Assembly, CBS, Ukraine’s, Republicans, Democrat, Progressive Supra, GOP, Walton, Mobile, North, Richmond Locations: Rome, Ukraine, TikTok, Roman, Roman Republic, Washington, ”, Korean, North Korea, Iran, Qatar, Russia, Moscow, Kyiv, Dulles , Virginia, Virginia, New York City, United States, China, Las Vegas , Nevada

☆ Do Some Men Love Ancient Rome for the Wrong Reasons?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( David Potter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But while the image of this empire in the modern world is of an immutable military might, in reality the imperial system survived because it was flexible. It was far more adaptable than the flailing democracy it replaced in the first century B.C., or the modern British and French empires, which later claimed Rome as a model. In two new books, Tom Holland and Adrian Goldsworthy, both accomplished novelists as well as historians, offer lucid accounts of the challenges inherent to managing this complex imperial enterprise. Holland’s “Pax” concerns itself with a period of relative imperial tranquillity between the suicide of the Roman emperor Nero in 68 A.D. and the death of the emperor Hadrian in 138. Goldsworthy explores the relations between Rome and its most powerful neighbor, the successive Persian regimes ruling what is now Iran and Iraq, from their first encounters in the first century B.C.

Persons: Adrian Goldsworthy, Tom Holland, Nero, Hadrian, Goldsworthy, ”, Vespasian Organizations: Adrian Goldsworthy PAX Locations: ROME, PERSIA, Roman, Central Europe, North Africa, Rome, Iran, Iraq, Palestine

ROME (AP) — An ancient Roman imperial palazzo atop the city's Palatine Hill was reopened to tourists on Thursday, nearly 50 years after its closure for restoration. The nearly 2,000-year-old Domus Tiberiana was home to rulers in the ancient city’s Imperial period. The public is now able to tour it, following decades of structural restoration work to shore the palace up for safety reasons. The English word “palatial” is inspired by the sumptuous imperial residence atop the Palatine, one of ancient Rome's seven hills. The domus, built on the northwest slope of the hill, is considered to be the first true imperial palace.

Persons: Hill, Alfonsina Russo, Tiberius, Augustus, Nero, Farnese, Russo, “ Organizations: ROME, domus, Praetorian Guard Locations: Roman, domus

☆ Jeremy Grantham sounds the alarm on stocks, recession, inflation, and interest rates in a new interview. Here are his 8 best quotes.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jeremy Grantham rang the alarm on inflation, interest rates, markets, and the economy. We're now in an era that will average higher rates than we had for the last 10 years." "I suspect inflation will never be as low as it averaged for the last 10 years, that we have re-entered a period of moderately higher inflation, and therefore moderately higher interest rates." The power of interest rates rising and depressing the real estate market — very negative, slow-moving influence. When we sit here discussing the stock market, we're a little like Emperor Nero fiddling while Rome burns."

Persons: Jeremy Grantham, Grantham, David Rubenstein, We're, —, Nero Organizations: Service, Bloomberg Locations: Wall, Silicon, Grantham

☆ ‘The Equalizer 3’ Review: Brood, Kill, Sip a Cup of Tea, Repeat
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Manohla Dargis | More About Manohla Dargis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

As one does in Italy, Robert McCall likes to sit in a little cafe, watching the world pass by. McCall — an enigmatic avenger played by Denzel Washington — likes tea, but he’s fine with the coffee that a beautiful server brings him with a smile. This is the third and apparently last “Equalizer” movie that Washington will make. Maybe he’s grown tired of the franchise’s same-old ultraviolence or perhaps he’s bored with the predictable predictability of it all, even if this installment is as reliably watchable if ethically challenged as the previous ones. Whatever the case, little has changed since the first “Equalizer” (2014).

Persons: Robert McCall, McCall, Denzel Washington, Nero d’Avola Organizations: Denzel Locations: Italy, Washington, Amalfi, Sicily

☆ Europe’s summer of extremes triggers health warnings, nuclear output fears and shipping disruption
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Europe's protracted battle with extreme weather conditions comes shortly after official data showed July was the hottest month in history. To be sure, the climate emergency — which is primarily driven by the burning of fossil fuels — is making extreme weather and its impacts more frequent and more intense. People stand at an overflooded petrol station in Gjovik on August 11, 2023 after extreme weather with heavy rain hit south-east Norway. This gives us the long-term context for the increasing occurrence and severity of such extreme weather and extreme events." On the same day, France issued an extreme heat warning for four regional departments in the southern regions of Rhone, Drome, Ardeche and Haute-Loire.

Persons: Angelos Tzortzinis, Alvaro Silva, Heiko Junge, Silva, Christophe Archambault, Nero, sweltering, Fabrice Coffrini Organizations: Sikorsky, Afp, Getty, EDF, Turkish, Meteorological Organization, Firefighters, Reuters Locations: Acharnes, Athens, Europe, Greece, French, Italy, Norway, Gjovik, Alexandroupolis, France, Rhone, Drome, Ardeche, Haute, Loire, Bordeaux, Sardinia, Dardanelles, Switzerland

☆ In Paris, an Apartment With a Rebellious Streak
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Ellie Pithers | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Bousquet’s latest project is a one-bedroom pied-à-terre on the Left Bank full of surprising juxtapositions that take their lead from the eclectic contemporary art collection of its owner — a young Parisian gallerist. The moody, dimly lit ground floor features a minimalist stainless steel-clad kitchen and a sunken dining room with a mezzanine just big enough to accommodate a guest bed. Off the kitchen, a small courtyard, planted by the Paris-based landscape gardener Swandy Wenker, is bursting with glossy Japanese aralia, tree and bird’s nest ferns and fragrant jasmine. A cozy blue-ceilinged bedroom and connecting bathroom are tucked away at the back. The effect is as though a rebellious young woman has moved into her grandmother’s apartment and made it her own.

Persons: —, François Mansart, Swandy Wenker, Max Lamb’s, Nero, casement Organizations: Left Bank Locations: Paris, British, Seine

☆ A $700 million superyacht linked to Putin was seized in Italy last year. It's being treated to a refurb while it waits, and authorities won't say who's paying for it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Scheherazade, a $700 million superyacht linked to Russian President Putin, is being refitted in Italy. Italy seized the yacht in 2022 following sweeping sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine war. A $700 million superyacht reportedly linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin is sitting in an Italian port and being refitted on the unnamed owner's dime, the Financial Times reported Sunday. US authorities believe the superyacht could belong to Putin, The New York Times reported in March last year. Other Russian oligarch-linked yachts that have been seized include the $81 million Alfa Nero and the $48 million Phi.

Persons: Putin, Vladimir Putin, It's, Eduard Khudainatov, Alexei Navalny, Nero Organizations: Russia, Financial Times, Marina di, Sea Group, Bloomberg, The New York Times, Kremlin, Phi, Italian Sea Group Locations: Italy, Ukraine, Marina, Milan, Russian

☆ Newly discovered ancient creature may have been the heaviest animal ever
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-05 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

This week, scientists shared discoveries of ancient species that lived and died tens of millions of years ago, providing tantalizing insights into creatures never documented until now. The colossal ancient whale, which swam the seas about 39 million years ago, likely weighed two to three times more than the blue whale. NASA/ESA/Joseph Olmsted (STScI)When the Hubble Space Telescope initially observed a young planetary system 32 light-years from Earth, it didn’t reveal any surprises. And the James Webb Space Telescope spied new details within the colorful, iconic Ring Nebula. The fruit flies in the groundbreaking study don’t typically reproduce through virgin births, also called parthenogenesis, although many animal species do.

Persons: Alberto Gennari, Michael Brecht, ” Brecht, Joseph Olmsted, Euclid, James Webb, —, Hala Alarashi, Alice Burkhardt, Ba, Emperor Nero, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN, Canadian Rockies, Humboldt University, NASA, ESA, Hubble, Telescope, Petra Museum, CNN Space, Science Locations: Ica, Berlin, Jordan, East Coast, United States

☆ Excavations Uncover Hints of Nero’s Theater in Rome, and Much More
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Elisabetta Povoledo | More About Elisabetta Povoledo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At a 15th-century palace that is steps from the Vatican and set to become a luxury hotel, archaeologists did what they always do in Rome, an ancient city thick with buried treasures. Rome is the gift that keeps on giving to archaeologists, though no one knew what would come from this preliminary exploration, a familiar routine at Italian building sites and development projects. Although chronicled by Roman-era historians, the theater had never emerged from Rome’s archaeologically rich underbelly. “It’s been stupendous, wonderful, amazing,” said Marzia Di Mento, the archaeologist who oversaw the dig at the palace, the Palazzo della Rovere. “It’s what every archaeologist would like to do.”

Persons: Nero, Roman, It’s, ”, Marzia Di Mento, “ Locations: Rome

☆ Emperor Nero's lost theater unearthed in Rome, near the Vatican
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Rome CNN —Ruins of a private theater belonging to the 1st century Roman Emperor Nero have been unearthed in the Italian capital just meters from the Vatican, in what experts are calling an “exceptional” find. Nero was the fifth Roman emperor, ruling between 54 and 68 AD. The site includes elegant marble columns, gold-leaf decorations and storage rooms with remnants of costumes and backdrops used in Nero’s theatrical productions. A double-faced Junus head, approximately dated to the 1st century A.D., is seen among other findings coming from the excavation of ancient Roman emperor Nero's theater. “Being able to dig in this built-up, historically rich area is so rare.”Archaeologists work on findings coming from the excavation site of the ancient Roman emperor Nero's theater.

Persons: Rome, Emperor Nero, Daniela Porro, Nero, Pliny the Elder, Nero's, Andrew Medichini, Rovere, Porro, ”, Di Mento, “, Porri Organizations: Rome CNN, St, Rome’s, CNN Locations: Peter’s, Conciliazione, St, Rome

☆ The daughter of a sanctioned Russian billionaire says she's the true owner of a $68 million superyacht bought by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Eric Schmidt bought a superyacht linked to a sanctioned Russian billionaire at auction in June. The Russian mogul has denied owning the vessel – but his daughter now says she's its true owner. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently paid $67.6 million for a stranded superyacht that has been linked to a sanctioned Russian billionaire. The Russian chemical mogul's daughter now says she's its true owner and wants it back, according to a report by Bloomberg. But on Wednesday, lawyers for Guryev's daughter Yulia Gurieva-Motlokhov filed an appeal saying that she was the vessel's true owner, Bloomberg reported.

Persons: Eric Schmidt, Schmidt, Nero, Andrey Guryev, Guryev, Alfa Nero, Vladimir Putin, Guryev's, Yulia Gurieva, Motlokhov Organizations: Bloomberg, Morning, US Treasury, Alfa, EU, FBI, Trust, Flagstaff Trust Locations: Russian, Antigua, Barbuda, Ukraine, Caribbean, Flagstaff

☆ Peter Nero, Pianist Who Straddled Genres, Is Dead at 89
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His daughter, Beverly Nero, said he died at the Home Care Assisted Living Facility, where he had lived in recent months. “We shall play ‘Tea for Two,’” he would say. My right hand will be playing ‘Tea for Two,’ while my left hand will play Tchaikovsky’s Fifth. My left foot will be fiercely tapping out the traditional rhythm to the Tahitian fertility dance. My right foot will not be doing too much.

Persons: Peter Nero, Beverly Nero, Nero, “, ’ ” Organizations: Home, New, Sun Locations: Eustis, Fla, New York

☆ Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt paid $67 million for a superyacht abandoned by a sanctioned Russian oligarch
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Max Adams | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt paid $67.6 million at auction for a 267-foot superyacht. The boat was left moored in Antigua Bay by Andrey Guryev, a sanctioned Russian oligarch. Billionaire and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt won an auction Friday for the 267-foot Alfa Nero, paying $67.6 million for the superyacht that had been "abandoned" in Antigua Bay by a sanctioned Russian oligarch. Schmidt was the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, and stepped down as chairman of Google parent Alphabet in 2018. Representatives for Schmidt didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.

Persons: Eric Schmidt, Andrey Guryev, Nero, Sir Ronald Sanders, Schmidt, Guryev, Vladimir Putin, Guryev's, Mr Guryev, Alfa Nero, Beck Diefenbach, Schmidt didn't Organizations: Google, Russian oligarch, Bloomberg, Morning, Barbuda Port Authority, Boat, US Treasury Department, Guryev, Alfa, Reuters Officials, International . Locations: Antigua Bay, Russian, Antigua, Barbuda, Ukraine, Falmouth Harbor

☆ The crew of a sanctioned super yacht have been playing 'Call of Duty' in the master suite and swimming in the infinity pool
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A sanctioned superyacht is racking up about $112,000 per month in crew costs, Bloomberg reported. The crew have been on the vessel for over a year and have reportedly taken to playing "Call of Duty." Over the past year, Alfa Nero's crew have tried to find ways to pass time while the ship remains stuck. Bloomberg reported that the crew have taken to playing "Call of Duty" and other PlayStation games in the ship's master suite. The crew — which has dwindled from 44 to 6 people — will also sometimes swim in the yacht's infinity pool, Bloomberg said.

☆ In Los Angeles, an Indian Chinese Feast Celebrating Female Founders
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Jean Trinh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Before all of that, though, the women had some cooking to do, with help from chef Akilah York, whom Gao had hired to provide culinary back up. The goal was to kick back while shoring one another up. “We’re going around the table being like, ‘I see you. The guest Yasmine Khatib of the Los Angeles flower studio Yasmine Floral Design provided a trio of pastel arrangements: white vases filled with foxgloves, pincushions, peonies, poppies and alliums. And Shelley Kleyn Armistead, another guest and the chief executive of the Gjelina hospitality group, supplied the speckled white dinner plates from Gjelina’s kitchenware brand, Gjusta Goods.

☆ Antigua wants to quickly auction off an 'abandoned' superyacht linked to a Russian oligarch after it ran up a $500,000 bill for fuel and food
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Antigua and Barbuda government has declared the Alfa Nero super yacht abandoned. Authorities intend to use the money to pay down a $500,000 fuel bill owed to the Antigua Yacht Club Marina. The authorities intend to use the yacht's sale proceeds to pay down a $500,000 debt it owes to the Antigua Yacht Club Marina for fuel, per Daily Observer. He added the Alfa Nero could also be uninsured and this could cause issues for the harbor. The US Department of the Treasury has linked the Alfa Nero super to Guryev, who the department said is a "close associate" of President Vladimir Putin.

☆ Antigua and Barbuda is preparing to auction off an 'abandoned' $81 million superyacht linked to a Russian oligarch, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Marielle Descalsota | Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An $81 million superyacht linked to a Russian oligarch is reportedly set to be auctioned off. The 81.2-meter Alfa Nero has been linked to Russian chemicals magnate Andrey Guryev. An Antigua and Barbuda government minister reportedly said the "abandoned" yacht risks becoming a "hazard." The 81.2-meter Alfa Nero was built by Oceanco and can accommodate 12 guests in six staterooms and 28 crew, according to Boat International. The Treasury department said in August that the Alfa Nero was a "blocked property" of Guryev's, and that he reportedly bought the yacht for $120 million in 2014.

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