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☆ Tencent, NetEase, Bilibili allowed to distribute foreign video games as China reopens market to global titles
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Laura He | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Hong Kong CNN —China has approved 27 foreign video games, including titles to be released by Tencent, NetEase and Bilibili, as it gradually reopens the world’s largest mobile entertainment market to international titles. It was the second batch of foreign games to be allowed to enter the Chinese market since December. Bilibili (BILI) will publish the localized version of “Uma Musume: Pretty Derby,” a hugely popular franchise from Japan’s Cygames. “We believe this implies a more supportive regulatory policy towards foreign titles that further support a healthier and normalized development of online gaming industry going forward,” said Citi analysts on Tuesday. But foreign games were still unable to access the Chinese market until December, when the regulator finally approved 45 foreign titles, including “Pokémon Unite” by Nintendo and “Valorant” by Riot Games.

☆ China to import 27 new video games, including Tencent, NetEase titles
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Josh Ye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

HONG KONG, March 20 - China's online gaming regulator on Monday granted licences to 27 foreign games in March, including titles to be published by Tencent Holdings (0700.HK), NetEase Inc (9999.HK) and Bilibili Inc (9626.HK) . NetEase secured approval for at least one mobile game named Audition: Everybody Party, while Bilibili received a licence for a game called Shanyao! The crackdown by China on online gaming had halted the approval process for foreign video games for 18 months between 2021 and 2022. XD Inc (2400.HK) received licences for two mobile games named Gorogoa and Wizard of Legend respectively. Other notable titles approved by China via this batch include a mobile game called Fairy Tale: Fighting and a console game named Yo-kai Watch 4.

☆ Albert Reichmann’s Miami Beach House Asks $29.9 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Sarah Paynter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. The family of the late real-estate developer Albert Reichmann, who fled Nazi invasions across Europe in his childhood and later helped Jewish residents leave the Soviet Union, is listing his waterfront Miami Beach home for $29.9 million.

☆ Son of Bernard Arnault, World’s Richest Person, Buys Manhattan Penthouse for About $18 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( Katherine Clarke | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. Alexandre Arnault , son of the world’s richest man, Bernard Arnault, has purchased a penthouse apartment in downtown Manhattan for close to $18 million, according to a person familiar with the situation.

☆ Hamptons Home Fetches $91.5 Million—More Than Double What It Sold for in 2020
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Katherine Clarke | E.B. Solomont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. A sprawling Hamptons home once owned by the chairman of railway giant Union Pacific has sold for $91.5 million, more than twice what it traded for in 2020, records show.

☆ Christian McCaffrey Lists Charlotte Penthouse Following Trade From Panthers to the 49ers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Sarah Paynter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. San Francisco 49ers running back, and former Carolina Panther, Christian McCaffrey is listing his Charlotte, N.C., penthouse for $3.75 million. He was traded from the Carolina Panthers to San Francisco in 2022.

☆ A Gilded Age Massachusetts Mansion Overlooking the Ocean Sells for $18.275 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( E.B. Solomont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. A Gilded Age waterfront mansion on the North Shore of Massachusetts has sold for $18.275 million, one of the highest recorded residential sales for the area, according to listing agent George Sarkis of Douglas Elliman .

☆ Jackie Kennedy's former house is on sale for $26.5 million, making it the most expensive listing in Washington DC. Take a look at the property and its 200-year history.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

This compound in Washington D.C.'s historic Georgetown neighborhood is listed for $26,500,000. The centerpiece home on 3017 N St. NW was built in 1794 by the second mayor of Georgetown. It later became the residence of a secretary of state, a KGB spy, and First Lady Jackie Kennedy. Other significant residents include a US secretary of war, a KGB spy, and a former Miss America. 3017 N Street NW was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.

☆ Leaked email: Ex-Tiger Global dealmaker John Curtius offered to mortgage home to provide cash to founders fearful of missing payroll during SVB crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former Tiger Global partner John Curtius offered to mortgage his house during the SVB crisis. Curtius offered founders interest-free loans to help them meet payroll before depositors were guaranteed. Former Tiger Global partner John Curtius offered to mortgage his home to help portfolio founders meet payroll at the height of the Silicon Valley Bank crisis, according to a leaked email seen by Insider. The investor didn't give further detail about the mortgage or his house on the email seen by Insider. Since leaving the New York-based hedge fund, Curtius has spent time trying to secure capital for his new fund Cedar Investment Management.

☆ Miles Guo, the Chinese tycoon charged with defrauding his fans of more than $1 billion, once starred in a music video where he shadowboxed on a luxury yacht to lyrics like 'take down the CCP'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Guo Wengui, also known as Miles Guo, was arrested on 11 counts of fraud and money laundering. Guo, also known as Miles Guo, is credited on Apple Music and Spotify as the artist behind at least 14 hip-hop, pop, and lo-fi songs. One of the political activist's most well-known works is a music video on YouTube, titled "Fight For Hong Kong." Taking down the CCP, the evil CCP, is the only way for us to live without fear," Guo raps in Mandarin. Another video sees Guo hyping up Himalaya Coin, or Hcoin, a cryptocurrency that Guo and Bannon promoted.

☆ In Florida, a $19 Million Home Sale Is the Panhandle’s Priciest of the Year
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Libertina Brandt | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. A beachfront spec home on Florida’s Emerald Coast has sold for $19 million, making it the Panhandle’s most expensive sale so far this year.

☆ Guo Wengui Charged in Alleged $1 Billion Fraud Conspiracy
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( James Fanelli | Corinne Ramey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Guo Wengui , a former real-estate developer, has said he fled China in 2014 after hearing that a state security official to whom he was close would soon be arrested. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with duping investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars to bankroll the purchase of a sprawling mansion, a 145-foot luxury yacht and other lavish items. Mr. Guo, also known as Kwok Ho Wan, was arrested Wednesday morning in New York and is charged with 11 counts of fraud and money laundering, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday in New York federal court. Prosecutors said he orchestrated a $1 billion scheme that preyed on hundreds of thousands of his online followers to purchase stock in his media company, fund a farm loan program and join a luxury-services club.

☆ Feds arrest Chinese tycoon linked to Steve Bannon and charge him with defrauding online fans to fund his yacht, Ferrari, and $36,000 mattresses
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A Chinese tycoon was arrested and charged with defrauding his online followers out of over $1 billion. Feds say Guo Wengui used stolen money to buy a $3.5 million Ferrari and two $36,000 mattresses. Wengui is facing various fraud and money laundering charges, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Wednesday. He allegedly asked his followers to invest in or give money to GTV, the Himalaya Farm Alliance, and the Himalaya Exchange. He also allegedly used the money to finance a $37 million luxury yacht, according to the charges.

[1/5] Guo Wengui (also known as Miles Kwok) holds a news conference with Steve Bannon in New York, New York, U.S., November 20, 2018. Guo, 52, was charged with 11 criminal counts including securities fraud, wire fraud and concealment of money laundering, after "lining his pockets with the money he stole," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in Manhattan said in a statement. They will propose a "robust bail package," according to Tamara Giwa, a federal public defender who represented Guo at Wednesday's hearing. Bannon is not accused of wrongdoing in Guo's criminal case. It said it also seized assets purchased with proceeds from Guo's alleged fraud, including a Lamborghini Aventador, and wants Guo to forfeit the yacht.

☆ DOJ charges Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, associate of Steve Bannon, in $1 billion fraud
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon greets fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui before introducing him at a news conference on November 20, 2018 in New York. The controversial exiled Chinese billionaire businessman Guo Wengui — an associate of former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon — was arrested in New York on Wednesday for orchestrating what federal prosecutors called a more than $1 billion fraud conspiracy that duped online followers with promises of outsized investment returns. Former President Donald Trump months later pardoned Bannon in that case, shortly before Trump left the White House. IThe defendants are charged with wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering in the criminal case. Both Guo and Je face ossible sentences of up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

☆ Billionaire Hedge-Funder Larry Robbins Asks $55 Million for New York Penthouse
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Katherine Clarke | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. Billionaire hedge-fund manager Larry Robbins has listed his penthouse apartment on New York’s Upper East Side for $55 million.

☆ Tiger Woods's NDA battle with Erica Herman is dragging his obsession with privacy into the spotlight
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Jack Newsham | Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Tiger Woods's ex-girlfriend Erica Herman claims he evicted and abused her, but she has an NDA. Davis wasn't the first person asked to keep Tiger Woods's name out of his mouth, and according to a $30 million lawsuit filed earlier this month by Woods's ex-girlfriend Erica Herman, he wasn't the last. The battle over Herman's NDA is a window into Woods's longtime obsession with privacy. In October 2021, exhibits and transcripts were sealed in an unsuccessful case brought by the family of an employee at Tiger Woods's restaurant who died in a drunk driving incident. When Woods's image imploded in 2009, he used nondisclosure agreements to stanch the gush of details about his personal life into the media.

☆ After $8.5 Million Gut Renovation and Expansion, Denver-Area Home Lists for $13 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( E.B. Solomont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. A newly renovated, roughly 14,000-square-foot home outside Denver is coming on the market for $13 million, making it one of the most expensive listings in the area.

☆ A CEO bought the 'Princess Diaries' mansion his daughter loved. See inside the San Francisco villa they're now selling for $8.9 million.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

The seller, the former CEO of Just Desserts Michael Mendes, purchased the home in 2009. The entryway to the mansion Open HomesHe told the Wall Street Journal that his daughter, who was 7 at the time of the purchase, was a fan of the movie. "It was a bit unfortunate because we were trying to negotiate a good price," Mendes said.

☆ FTX's former chief engineer hands over his $3.7 million vacation home to the US government as it's believed to be linked to his crimes, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

FTX's Nishad Singh forfeited a $3.7 million vacation home to the US government, Bloomberg reported. The SEC accused Singh of withdrawing $6 million from FTX for personal expenditure. Singh pleaded guilty to six criminal counts including wire fraud and conspiracy charges in February. The Securities and Exchange Commission separately accused Singh of creating a code that allowed Bankman-Fried to easily divert the funds to Alameda. They also accused him of taking $6 million from FTX for personal expenditure and making donations to charity.

☆ Rush Limbaugh’s Longtime Palm Beach Home Sells for $155 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( E.B. Solomont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. The longtime Palm Beach, Fla., home of the late conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh has sold for $155 million, according to property records.

☆ Florida Island Home With Gulf Views Lists for $25 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Sarah Paynter | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. A beachfront home on Florida’s Anna Maria Island is listing for $25 million. If it fetches its asking price, it would set a record for the affluent island, said listing agent Charles Buky of Coldwell Banker Realty.

☆ Estée Lauder Scion Asks $200 Million for Palm Beach Properties
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Libertina Brandt | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. Billionaire William Lauder is listing two parcels of oceanfront land in Palm Beach, Fla., for a combined $200 million.

☆ San Francisco Home Seen in ‘The Princess Diaries’ Lists for $8.9 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Libertina Brandt | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. In San Francisco, a home that appeared in the 2001 film “The Princess Diaries” is hitting the market for $8.9 million.

☆ After Three-Year Renovation, Former Condé Nast CEO Lists Florida Home for $15.9 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Libertina Brandt | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. Former Condé Nast CEO Charles Townsend is listing a newly renovated house in Vero Beach, Fla., for $15.9 million.

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