Luxury Home Foreclosures a Deal for Well-Heeled

 Luxurious real estate doesn’t look — or cost — what it used to. “There are $4 million estates in Lutz and the Riverview area that are now less than $1 million,” said Keller Williams real estate agent Rande Friedman. “There’s a condo in Channelside that was $1.5 million, and now it’s $700,000.” Most homeowners have seen values drop, but these prices are so low because the homes are owned by a bank. And the bank wants to get rid of them. There...

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24-Hour Film Challenge in Marbella

 MARBELLA Film Festival has announced the launch of its annual 24-hour film challenge, as part of the 2011 festival which will be held from October 15 to 17. The event which is organised by Marbella International Film Festival, in association with New World Trust and with the support of “The Marbella Film Office”, offers a great opportunity for filmmakers to add to their credits and demonstrate their talent to world audiences. This year the...

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The Ecclestone Sisters Have Been Cruising Around Monaco In Their Dad's $150 Million Yacht

Image: via James SpottingTamara and Petra, bodacious daughters of F1 billionaire Bernie Ecclestone, have been carving out a name for themselves in the annals of conspicuous consumption.Lately the pair have been cavorting off the coast of Monaco on their dad’s new toy, the 177-ft., $150 million super yacht Sea Force One. The stylish vessel was built by A.M.Y....

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Puerto Banus Saturday market Marbella shopping

 The Puerto Banus street market in Marbella is on every Saturday from 9am to 2-3pm. It’s next to the Plaza de Toros (bullring), 10 minute walk from the po...

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Marbella Town Hall debt continues to increase

 Despite paying off a million € every month to Hacienda and Social Security, the debt at Marbella Town Hall is continuing to increase. The million € payment is only covering the interest generated on the debt amassed in the 15 years of the GIL administration in the town when the Mayor was the late Jesús Gil y Gil. The debt which remains is put at some 300 million €, and the administration led by the PP Mayor, Ángeles Muñoz, says the Town Hall...

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Pop legend Lulu and Harry Judd from McFly are putting on their dancing shoes for this year's Strictly Come Dancing competition.

 Lulu is swapping singing for salsaEx-Neighbours stars Jason Donovan and Holly Valance have also agreed to take part in the show, according to The Sun newspaper.It has been confirmed by show producers thatDaybreak's sport presenter Dan Lobb,Waterloo Road actress Chelsee Healey and impressionist Rory Bremner, will also be taking part in the hit TV show.Sven-Goran...

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London Fashion Week is approaching and there are hospitality packages on offer

img alt="London Fashion Week approaches" border="0" id="_ctl0_phMainContent_imgNewsImage" src="http://pictures.directnews.co.uk/liveimages/x_2911_800719835_0_0_7014847_300.jpg" style="float: left; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 2px; margin: 4px; border: 0px none initial;">London Fashion Week is approaching and there are hospitality...

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Fashion week photographs of Kate Moss or Agyness Deyn sashaying down the catwalk in the latest season’s designs appear in magazines and on front pages around the world.

Fashion week photographs of Kate Moss or Agyness Deyn sashaying down the catwalk in the latest season’s designs appear in magazines and on front pages around the world. Yet look more closely and it appears that few of these images are taken at London Fashion Week.Many of the most talked-about models of the moment — some household names, some the next big thing — will appear at fashion weeks in New York, Paris and Milan, but not London. Some fly in...

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London Fashion Week Spring 2012 Preview

 The buzz around London is that this is going to be the season of the new-established designers. Labels such as Erdem, Christopher Kane, and Peter Pilotto have garnered widespread coverage with celebrities donning their wares on the red carpet and fashion editors flocking to feature them in magazines but they still lack the widespread recognition of other established designers. This will be their year to stand out and join the big leagues. ...

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The Wine Museum (Museo del Vino), Ojen, Marbella

 You’ll need a car to reach Ojen. It was made famous by a local liqueur and Julio Iglesias has a home here. It’s heaven for nature lovers, set in the mountains just above Marbella and is definitely worth a detour, not just for a taste of some fine Spanish wines, but for a feel for the quieter side of Marbella, where birdsong and the whizz of mopeds are the soundtrack...

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Billionairess Petra Eccleston's fashion line Stark is to launch at next week's New York Fashion Week.

Billionnairess: Newlywed Petra Ecclestone arrives in LA yesterdayBillionairess Petra Eccleston's fashion line Stark is to launch at next week's New York Fashion Week.And, although the It girl has caused quite a stir in the U.S. with her recent purchase of the $85million former Spelling mansion in LA, she insists that the accessories brand will 'speak for itself.''It’s not...

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The Venice Film Festival has started

The Venice Film Festival has started and this year will present new movies made by such directors as Cronenberg, Ferrara, McQueen, Solondz, Polanski, Lathimos, Satrapi and in addition: the latest films by Soderbergh, Madonna and the Spanish science fiction movie EVA by Kike Maíllo (born in Barcelona in 1975)The most anticipated release of the festival is probably “CARNAGE” by Roman Polanski, who wrote the screenplay in the Swiss’ custody. The Film...

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Spanish aristocrat, 85 year old Span’s Duchess of Alba is getting married with 24 years younger civil servant Alfonso Diez Carabantes

 Spanish aristocrat, 85 year old Span’s Duchess of Alba is getting married with 24 years younger civil servant Alfonso Diez Carabantes and to avoid her chlderen’s protests, gives them all her wealth.Duchess of Alba has entered the Guinness Book of Recors for her gigantic welth worth of 3.5bn euros (£3bn) and the most nobility titles in the world (44 noble titles and 150...

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F1 heiress Petra Ecclestone marries businessman James Stunt while her father Bernie Ecclestone is splashing out £1.3 million for the wedding at Odescalchi Castle near Rome

F1 heiress Petra Ecclestone marries businessman James Stunt while her father Bernie Ecclestone is splashing out £1.3 million for the wedding at Odescalchi Castle near Rome, where Tom Cruise married Katie Holmes and buying properties in Los Angeles and London worth over £120 million.Eric Clapton will play the first song as the newlyweds take to the floor for their first dance as a married couple. Then the Black Eyed Peas will perform a set for guests...

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THE movie ‘Cloud Atlas’ starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, will be filmed in Mallorca this September

THE movie ‘Cloud Atlas’ starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, will be filmed in Mallorca this September, the Mallorcan Film Commission confirmed.Other actors include Susan Sarandon, Hugo Weaving, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw.Filming is set to begin around September 15 and end around September 30, but it will not be released until October 2012.The hope is that the movie will popularize Mallorca as a destination in the same way that The...

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Kadafi son had a Hollywood connection

Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi's third son, Saadi, had an independent movie production company called Natural Selection with an American partner. The company has closed its doors and the son is on the run.Saadi Kadafi, Moammar Gaddafi's third son. (Dan Peled, Associated Press / September 2, 20...

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Vincci opens new 5-star boutique hotel in Benalmadena

The newly opened 5-star boutique hotel occupies a beachfront location, only 15min away from Malaga Airport.Vincci Hotels has just opened the Vincci Seleccion Aleysa, a charming 5-star boutique hotel. The newly opened property occupies a beachfront location in a quiet setting, very close to the town's marina and other localities on the Costa del Sol, such as Malaga, Torremolinos...

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180 guests attended the presentation of the full range of Rolls-Royce by Guarnieri Dealers at Villa Padierna Hotel’s Beach Club.

  180 guests attended the presentation of the full range of Rolls-Royce by Guarnieri Dealers at Villa Padierna Hotel’s Beach Club. There were around 10 models including Ghost, Drophead Coupe and some limited editions of Phantom as well as a collection of classic Rolls-Royce.The guests, who were business people, professionals, television personalities and top...

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Paris Hilton’s work ethic praised; Google exec in town

One of Asia’s leading real estate firms, Century Properties, pulled out all the stops last month as it launched one of its biggest international collaborations of the year: its collaboration with Hollywood celebrity Paris Hilton for its premiere condominium development, Azure Urban Resort Residences, dahlings.Manila was pandemonium from the day Paris...

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Qaddafi's lifestyle of the rich and infamous

Muammar Qaddafi's wife, daughter and two sons fled over the border to Algeria Monday. Qaddafi is still on the run.In the last days of fighting, with defeat looming, Qaddafi's soldiers turned their guns on more than 50 civilian prisoners held in one building. Soldiers threw in grenades, then set the building on fire.There were a lot of dead and a lot of wounded, says one witness,...

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