The billionaire's social calendar: The must-attend events for the world's wealthiest business icons

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Billionaires follow a pretty consistent schedule, flying their private jets en masse from Davos in January and Sun Valley in July, stopping in Monaco and St. Barts on their superyachts in between.

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The New York lawyer who died in the Bayesian yacht sinking wrote a LinkedIn post months before the tragedy that ended with 'they all lived happily ever after'

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Rescue teams sailing near Palermo, searching for the last missing person from the sunken luxury yacht Bayesian.
Rescue teams sailing near Palermo, searching for the last missing person from the sunken luxury yacht Bayesian.

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The superyacht tragedy will likely spark legal drama

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Divers prepare to search for the missing after the superyacht called the Bayesian sunk off the coast of Italy.
Divers prepare to search for the missing after the superyacht called the Bayesian sunk off the coast of Italy.

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Want to vacation like a billionaire? Here's how much it costs to charter a superyacht

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Exterior of Carinthia VII yacht in the sea
The Carinthia VII is a 97-meter superyacht available to charter for more than $1.5 million per week.

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The largest yachts owned by tech billionaires, from Mark Zuckerberg to Jeff Bezos

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Mark Zuckerberg recently purchased a 118-meter megayacht, a status symbol among tech billionaires.

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A pro-Kremlin oligarch's impounded yacht is being auctioned off — with the money going to Ukraine

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Barcolana yacht
The Barcolana yacht owned by Russian Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, seized by Italian police in October 2022. For illustration purposes only.

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Insiders still have no idea what's going to happen to Russian oligarchs' seized superyachts

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The $300 million megayacht Amadea, which US authorities seized and say is owned by a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
US federal prosecutors are attempting to get permission to sell the megayacht Amadea, which costs taxpayers millions to maintain.

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These are the biggest and most expensive boats at 2024's Palm Beach yacht show

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Nero yacht exterior
Modeled after J.P. Morgan's yacht, the Nero is 90 meters in length and available to charter for about $500,000 a week.

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Jeff Bezos' yacht reportedly cost $500 million and is the largest sailing yacht in the world. Here's what we know.

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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez spent a lot of time onboard his $500 million yacht Koru this summer.

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Orcas sunk another boat and sailors are resorting to some very weird and wild ways to save their yachts

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The fin and head of a killer whale surface on the foreground between two small boats with forested mountains behind them.
An orca slightly breaches the water between two boats in Alaska.

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