Paper names mysterious Russian buyer who reportedly paid record amount for French estate

Article Date : 18 August 2008

A French newspaper has named businessman Mikhail Prokhorov as the mysterious Russian oligarch who paid a record amount for a residential property, an estate on the French Riviera. Although reports vary, Prokhorov is supposedly paying somewhere in the neighborhood of €500 million for Villa Leopolda, which was built in 1902 for Belgian king Leopold II...

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Paper names mysterious Russian buyer who reportedly paid record amount for French estate

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