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A Russian billionaire has made history by purchasing the most expensive home on earth – Villa Leopolda – for about $750 million, Fox News reports. Villa Leopolda is a villa on the French Riviera in ...

Villa La Leopolda sits on land in the French Riviera once owned by King Leopold II of Belgium and was used in Hitchcock’s 1955 film, To Catch a Thief, with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly Prokhorov has ...

Have you ever thought which is the most expensive thing in the world which would be a possible testament to what is possible when imagination meets opulence. It can be anything – from buildings, to ...

Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov has been named as the mystery buyer of the world's most expensive villa on the French Riviera for nearly half a billion euros. The 43-year-old oligarch - who was ...

Mikhail Prokhorov is believed to have paid more than £400 million for Villa Leopolda, built in 1902 for Belgian King Leopold II near Cap Ferrat, between Nice and Monaco. The purchase suggests Mr ...

Mikhail Prokhorov's next purchase is the New Jersey Nets basketball team. MOSCOW March 2, 2010— -- Anywhere in the world, $53 million is considered a hefty sum for a house. For one of Russia's ...

This sky-scraping 27-story mansion in Mumbai, India, recently made headlines for its elevated gardens — and sky-high price tag. But the reported $1 billion vertical behemoth is only a more extreme ...

A sumptuous villa on the French Mediterranean coast has become the world's most expensive house after selling to a Russian billionaire for £390 million. The sprawling Villa Leopolda on the Cote d'Azur ...

If you are looking for a holiday home on the French Riviera, the stock of available properties just got smaller. With grounds so grand that it takes a reputed 50 gardeners to tend them, the Villa ...

Russia's fifth richest man has denied reports that he has bought the world's most expensive home. Mikhail Prokhorov, worth about $22bn, said he was not the mystery buyer of the southern France ...