Though it cost him the fortune of US$ 485 million, Roman Abramovich’s new toy – the yacht Eclipse – was almost a "bargain" for the Russian billionaire. Not only because Roman is the owner of an estate estimated at US$ 11.2 billion, and in this case, some "hundreds of millions" would barely dent his bank account.
* But most of all, because he is an excellent negotiator. Glamurama can explain: when he signed the contract to build the yacht, Roman demanded that production costs were pre-set by the German shipyard Blohm + Voss. So far so good. The problem is that between the order and the actual delivery of the product, the international crisis has made a turn for the worse. As a result, the final bill of the Eclipse was about U.S. $ 800 million – far more than the initial value that he committed to pay. Talk about luck!