On a final note, although I might well aspire for a week to the life style you describe in your article, if my actual life style were 10% as glamorous as you made it out to be, Robin Leach would look like a piker by comparison.
It camouflaged losses with techniques that would make Ponzi look like a piker.
Mr. Boesky was a piker compared to Jay Gould and Jim Fiske, and Commodore Vanderbilt thought nothing of bribing judges and legislators.