A few weeks ago, the Daily Express, who’s tagline is “The World’s Greatest Newspaper,” reported that Roman Abramovich had agreed to purchase La Leopolda, a magnificent Villa near Nice for the king’s ransom of:
Five Hundred Million Euros
Living just down the road from said villa, I was sure I would have heard something about this, so I decided to do some digging and lo and behold – not true. Of course, one of the advantages of publishing online instead of print is – if you screw up and report something incorrectly – you can just delete the post. I won’t say I have never done it myself. 
They had actually got just about everything wrong. It wouldn’t have been the world’s most expensive house in any case, and compared to the monstrosity Mukesh Ambani is building in Bombay, decidedly cheap.
Now The Times is reporting that the house did sell – to a mystery Russian buyer and real estate agents up and down the French coast are rushing out for Russian language lessons as we speak. These are the few photos I was able to find of the property.
La Leopolda’s gardens cover 10 acres and requires the attentions of 50 gardeners, and as some one else remarked, the gates are worth more than my house.
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THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTFUL HOME IN THW WORLD TO ME!!!
:D:D
WOW that’s noe big house/manchine what ever, who cares it’s huge and i want it but it needs stables and and arena and every thing a horse person could ever want!
AGGGGGGGGGG HUUUUUUUGE!!!!!!!!!!!
OWWW SHITT, I WANT IT, I WANT IT, I WANT IT!!!!
i want/need that house! it´s incredible!!! awsome as hell!
one day I will buy this home , It’my promise, don’t forget my name B M Bharath kishan from india bengalooru