Billionaire paid max price at Sotheby's
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A Russian billionaire says he bought the art collection of the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich for the state by offering the upper limit of the value established by the auction house.
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Rupert Murdoch has offered the highest price ever for a Manhattan residence to buy a penthouse once owned by the Rockefeller family.
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Business & money: The founder of Britain's largest private insurance firm, Towergate, could make Â£2bn after it emerged that his company has received bid approaches.
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Britain&#39;s Damien Hirst has been crowned  the world&#39;s most expensive living artist at auction, lifting a  title held for 18 years by America&#39;s Jasper Johns.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates is still the richest man in America, topping the Forbes rich list for the eleventh year.
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Billionaires who can afford anything buy these objects of desire.
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Rupert Murdoch is moving. The owner of News Corporation was said yesterday to have offered $44m (Â£22m) for an elegant, three-level penthouse apartment facing Central Park on Manhattan&#39;s fashionable Fifth Avenue.
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The residence of France's ambassador to Ireland is up for sale with a 60 million euro (45 million pound) price tag that would make it the most expensive home ever sold in the Irish Republic.
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A portrait by Lucian Freud broke the record for a living European artist when it sold for Â£7.8m.
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THE billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch has offered to buy a three-storey penthouse in Manhattan for a record $44 million (Â£21.6 million).
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France has always had a soft spot for the lawbreaker. Now JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel, the trader who cost SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale more than $7 billion, has attracted a fan club of his own.
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Rupert Murdoch has agreed to buy the late Laurance S. Rockefeller's Fifth Avenue penthouse, whose $44 million price tag is the highest ever for a residence in Manhattan.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Russian billionaire pays over Â£25m for treasures Â· Usmanov coup follows major Arsenal investment
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Â· Multimillionaire has given Â£125m to charity already Â· First step to fortune made selling trainers in garage
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In London society, Leigh Sebba is a man to be reckoned with. His family's century-old real estate company was valued last year at almost $380 million, with most of its offices, apartments and shops located in ...
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Bill Gates kept his ranking as the richest person in the United States, boosting his worth to $48-billion. But investor Warren Buffett has edged closer to the top of the rich list, Forbes magazine said on Friday.
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Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire CEO of News Corp., has offered to buy a three-story penthouse for &#36;44 million, which would be the highest price ever paid for a Manhattan apartment if the deal goes through.