Russian buys Isle where Onassis wed Jacqueline
17 April 2013 6:23 AM IST
A Russian billionaire has bought a piece of romantic history for his family. He purchased the island where Aristotle Onassis wedded Jacqueline Kennedy, the former American first lady, in 1968.
Dmitry Rybolovlev paid $100 million for the island of Skorpios in the Ionian Sea, the Greek daily Kathimerini said. He also obtained the small nearby islet Tsokari, the newspaper said.
The islands were put up for sale by Onassis’s 28-year-old granddaughter Athena Onassis Roussel.
Skorpios has three houses, a helicopter pad and a mooring berth and costs 1.5 million euro ($2 million) a year to maintain, Forbes Russia said. The islands were previously eyed by Roman Abramovich, Bill Gates and Madonna, though none of them went ahead with the purchase, the report said.
Shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis bought Skorpios in 1963, five years before his marriage to John F. Kennedy’s widow. The tycoon was buried on the island after his death in 1975, as were his son and daughter.
The nominal purchaser in the Rybolovlev deal was a trust representing the Russian tycoon’s 24-year-old daughter Ekaterina, reports said. Forbes Russia, which put Rybolovlev’s fortune at $9.1 billion, said the Russian businessman avoids purchasing assets in his own name because of an ongoing divorce.
The family seems fond of real estate, however, Rybolovlev bought a Florida mansion from Donald Trump for $95 million in 2008; his daughter purchased New York’s then-most expensive apartment on Manhattan for $88 million in 2011; and in February the media also named him as the new owner of Will Smith’s Hawaiian villa, for which Rybolovlev reportedly paid $20 million.
Rybolovlev, 46, made his fortune through Uralkali, Russia’s biggest producer of potash fertiliser.
NIGHT'S SLEEP CAN ENHANCE MUSICAL SKILLS: STUDY
Musicians who learn a new melody and practice it after a night's sleep demonstrate enhanced skills, says a study. Performance of a musical task improved among pianists who learned a new melody and practiced it after a night of sleep, says researcher Sarah E. Allen from the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, US. The study, which examined how the brain learns and retains motor skills, is among the first to look at whether sleep enhances the learning process for musicians practicing a new piano melody, reports Science Daily. However, it was also found that the gains in speed and accuracy declined after sleep among musicians who practiced the day before on two melodies one after another, said Allen, assistant professor of music education in SMU's Meadows School of the Arts. Surprisingly, when two similar musical pieces were practiced one after the other, followed by practice of the first, a night's sleep enhanced pianists' skills.
Dmitry Rybolovlev paid $100 million for the island of Skorpios in the Ionian Sea, the Greek daily Kathimerini said. He also obtained the small nearby islet Tsokari, the newspaper said.
The islands were put up for sale by Onassis’s 28-year-old granddaughter Athena Onassis Roussel.
Skorpios has three houses, a helicopter pad and a mooring berth and costs 1.5 million euro ($2 million) a year to maintain, Forbes Russia said. The islands were previously eyed by Roman Abramovich, Bill Gates and Madonna, though none of them went ahead with the purchase, the report said.
Shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis bought Skorpios in 1963, five years before his marriage to John F. Kennedy’s widow. The tycoon was buried on the island after his death in 1975, as were his son and daughter.
The nominal purchaser in the Rybolovlev deal was a trust representing the Russian tycoon’s 24-year-old daughter Ekaterina, reports said. Forbes Russia, which put Rybolovlev’s fortune at $9.1 billion, said the Russian businessman avoids purchasing assets in his own name because of an ongoing divorce.
The family seems fond of real estate, however, Rybolovlev bought a Florida mansion from Donald Trump for $95 million in 2008; his daughter purchased New York’s then-most expensive apartment on Manhattan for $88 million in 2011; and in February the media also named him as the new owner of Will Smith’s Hawaiian villa, for which Rybolovlev reportedly paid $20 million.
Rybolovlev, 46, made his fortune through Uralkali, Russia’s biggest producer of potash fertiliser.
NIGHT'S SLEEP CAN ENHANCE MUSICAL SKILLS: STUDY
Musicians who learn a new melody and practice it after a night's sleep demonstrate enhanced skills, says a study. Performance of a musical task improved among pianists who learned a new melody and practiced it after a night of sleep, says researcher Sarah E. Allen from the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, US. The study, which examined how the brain learns and retains motor skills, is among the first to look at whether sleep enhances the learning process for musicians practicing a new piano melody, reports Science Daily. However, it was also found that the gains in speed and accuracy declined after sleep among musicians who practiced the day before on two melodies one after another, said Allen, assistant professor of music education in SMU's Meadows School of the Arts. Surprisingly, when two similar musical pieces were practiced one after the other, followed by practice of the first, a night's sleep enhanced pianists' skills.
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