CCI is a private members club based in the Riviera & Monaco which facilitates the promotion of luxury lifestyle products/services and events and provides an enviroment for networking between Corporate & High Net Worth Individuals in an online and real world enviroment.
Many of these ‘ Real World ‘ évents take place in Monaco which is just one square mile of pure affluence packed with billionaires, millionaires, luxury yachts,fabulous cars and many of the worlds leading private banks. At the heart of it all is Monte Carlo, home to a world famous casino and the place to be seen.
Monaco’s is home to many succesful people, including Easyjet’s Stelios and British High Street king Sir Phillip Green, who along with other tycoons, were lured to Monaco because of the tax laws (or lack of them).
If your looking for a property the local real esate agents will try and sell you the one of best apartments in town ,a four-bedroom duplex with a roof garden which overlooks the harbour and is worth an amazing £60m an estimated £30m of which is attributed to the view.
Monaco has a backdrop of yachts, one the Lady Maura in the harbour is worth a staggering £250m, on taking advice about super yachts one of the leading local brokers informs CCI that you would need at least 100m euros just to get noticed.
If you visit the shops in Monaco a jewel encrusted watch will set you back 1m euros and you can buy the most expensive car in the world – a Bugatti Veyron which can hit speeds of up to 250mph. The Bugatti costs 1.1m euros before tax and there are already SIX registered in Monaco.
To live in Monaco one ex-pat millionaire tells CCI you need at least £10m in the bank to live a ‘comfortable’ lifestyle he now lives the high-life, driving an Aston Martin and dining in the best restaurants in town.
He tells CCI: “Anything that money buys, Monaco delivers very well, whether it’s five star hotels, restaurants, we’ve got a very nice cultural life as well, I’m a friend of the opera, friend of the orchestra…in the last few weeks I’ve been to see U2 & Madonna.
CCI visits the world famous casino in Monte Carlo. Until it was built in 1863, Monaco was one of the poorest places in Europe, but the casino was the saviour of the country and within a few years was generating enough money for income tax to be abolished.
CCI is told : “This is really where it all started…everything about Monaco, it’s just luxury, you feel that you are sitting in luxury, everything, the chips, the personnel, the way that you’re treated…there’s something very, very special about it. It really is the Mecca for gamblers.”
Some of the country’s better known residents including a Formula One champion who has won the Monaco Grand Prix twice and moved there to escape tax and the paparazzi, which are banned here.
He now owns a hotel in Monaco,and tells CCI: “It’s totally unique, I’ve never seen anything like this anywhere in the world. There is no paparazzi, I went into St Tropez yesterday, and paparazzi everywhere…It should just be another place where you can go and hang out and have fun with your friends. Monaco, they’re not here.”
Monaco has of course a great history of glamour, which began when Hollywood film star Grace Kelly met and fell in love with the country’s prince. The pair married in a fairytale ceremony which was watched by 30m people across the world on TV.
One local resident says he believes Monaco is the ultimate prize for being successful. There has to be a prize for being successful, what’s the point in working so hard all of your life, if there isn’t a prize at the end, and maybe Monaco is the prize
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