Dmitry Rybolovlev invested $200 million in the Greek island of Skorpios
While some Russian oligarchs are preparing to launch their yachts on the Volga instead of the Cote d'Azur, others are fattening. Dmitry Rybolovlev is turning the Greek island of Skorpios into the “Rybolovlev Art Island” and has invested $200 million in it.
Paintings and sculptures of great masters from Dmitry’s private collection will be brought to the island (he has an enviable one: Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Rene Magritte, etc.). “Water Lilies” by Claude Monet will also live here. On Scorpius they built villas, a space-design spa, a football field, stables, helipads, a yacht port and organized a farm and vineyards so that restaurants could use products directly from the garden. Now Rybolovlev himself is testing the island and its benefits with all his might, but in 2024 he plans to open it to very rich and sophisticated guests. It is impossible to rent one villa, only the whole of Skorpios, which can accommodate no more than 50 people. For such a Greek party you will have to pay a million dollars a week. Skorpios has been in the possession of the Russian oligarch since 2013 - he bought it from the daughter of billionaire Aristotle Onassis for 120 million and even competed at the auction with Roman Abramovich and Bill Gates. By the way, on this island in 1968 the wedding of Onassis and Jackie Kennedy sang and danced.
Not long ago, Dmitry Rybolovlev was offered to buy an enviable piece of reserved land in Beverly Hills for millions with a project for the largest house in the world by developer Mohamed Hadid, Bella and Gigi’s dad. I don’t know whether the deal with Rybolovlev took place or not, but this natural park with hundred-year-old Californian oak trees has already begun to be cut down for construction. I would like to believe that there was no Russian trace.
Businessmen who are more devoted to Russia, but a little poorer, are meanwhile mastering their native lands. For example, Dmitry Razumov - he took up Suzdal closely. He moved there, built a house and the MIRA museum, where he brought his collection of modern art. In a word, well done.
Author: Yunia Pugacheva
