Furlough fury over super-rich who worth a total of £19 billion, but still demand taxpayer cash

The billionaire heirs to the Gucci fashion and Graff diamond fortunes are among the fabulously wealthy business owners whose companies have used the taxpayer-funded furlough scheme to pay their staff, a Mail on Sunday investigation can reveal. Our probe has uncovered how despite personal fortunes of hundreds of millions of pounds, some of Britain’s richest landowners … Read more

Furlough fury over super-rich who worth a total of £19 billion, but still demand taxpayer cash

The billionaire heirs to the Gucci fashion and Graff diamond fortunes are among the fabulously wealthy business owners whose companies have used the taxpayer-funded furlough scheme to pay their staff, a Mail on Sunday investigation can reveal. Our probe has uncovered how despite personal fortunes of hundreds of millions of pounds, some of Britain’s richest landowners … Read more

Gucci suffers sales slump as super-rich tourists stay home 

Gucci suffered a Christmas sales slump as super-rich tourists were forced to stay home By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:05 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 22:30 GMT, 17 February 2021 Gucci sales fell over Christmas as the collapse in super-rich tourists heading to London, Paris, Milan and New York hit business … Read more

Global super-rich snap up British country estates

A rush of overseas buyers are descending on Britain’s country estates, with a 1,900 per cent rise in offers worth at least £15million compared to last year.  New data from Savills shows 19 estates have sold this year as the global super rich re-evaluate their urban lifestyles during the Covid lockdown.  Just one estate over … Read more

Britain’s super-rich lead the charge in abandoning home nation to live in Italy

Is Rishi Sunak’s tax rise going to send super-rich to Italy? Britain leads exodus of wealthy citizens abandoning home for rates relief from Rome with 78 leaving UK compared to 58 French, 20 Americans and 19 Russians So far 784 wealthy individuals have moved to Italy since the tax break came in   Britons lead the way, … Read more

Private jet full of super-rich holidaymakers turned away from French airport

Private jet full of super-rich holidaymakers is sent back to London after the group landed in France and tried to get to their villa by helicopter during coronavirus lockdown Seven men in their 40s & 50s and three women in their 20s landed in Marseille     Their three helicopters waiting to take them to Cannes were … Read more

The super-rich flee London to escape coronavirus

What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more