When you have so much money and being ranked in the top 100 richest man in the world, a Ferrari Enzo would be a reality car. Sales only to exclusive Ferrari owners (yes you must prove you have bought a Ferrari before they will sell you the car), it is a car where you need to be who’s who.
Mix the entire picture together. We have a rich Russian tycoon in one corner. A gorgeous TV star babe in another. A super fast car and one which 5,999,999,651 other people can only drool. An exotic location in France - excellent beach city of Nice. Living life on the high - high risks, high speed and high high.
Now man in coma. Almost everything gone? Easy come, easy go.
Post from Newpaper here:
HE had just flown into Nice in a private jet and taken delivery of a new Ferrari. With the Russian billionaire was a stunning Russian TV star.
If witnessess are to be believed, Mr Suleyman Kerimov, 40, hit the pedal on a stretch of road where the maximum speed is only 50 kmh.
They told police that the black 12-cylinder Ferrari, which has a top speed of 350kmh, had been zig-zagging fast between traffic on Saturday afternoon, reported London’s The Times. It was raining.
The billionaire seems to have lost control and rammed into a tree along the Promenade des Anglais, the French county’s most celebrated thoroughfare.
The Ferrari Enzo broke in two on impact and burst into flames. A fire engine from the nearby airport rushed to scene and extinguished the blaze. By then, Mr Kerimov had managed to extricate himself from the wreckage.
He was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Marseilles where he is said to be in an induced coma on a respirator. Doctors said that he had suffered burns to 70 per cent of his body and in critical condition.
Ms Tina Kandelaki, 31, a star personality on Russia’s STS television channel who was travelling with the billionaire, suffered slight burns. She flew back to Moscow on Sunday.
Mr Kerimov is a member of parliament from Dagestan, which borders Chechnya.
11TH RICHEST RUSSIAN
He is worth US$7.1 billion ($11b) according to Forbes magazine, whose annual survey of the world’s richest people put him at No 72, making him the 11th richest Russian.Reuters reported that he leapt into the top league of Russian billionaires in the late 1990s, several years after he started to borrow aggressively from banks to buy shares in state companies, betting that the value of his investments would rise.
Married with three children, he is regularly linked by Russian tabloids to some of Russia’s most famous young women. Russian media reported last year that he paid US$1 million to fly pop stars Shakira and Christina Aguilera to Russia to celebrate his 40th birthday.
Mr Michael Bonnet, Deputy Prosecutor for Nice, said a judicial police investigation was opened ‘in view of Mr Kerimov’s background’.
‘For the moment we can exclude nothing… but the theory that is favoured is a driving error due to excessive speed on a wet surface,’ Mr Bonnet told The Times.
Read the article here.
UPDATES! 2/12/2006 From Straits Times:
Interestingly this is the second Ferrari Enzo that I have read being sent packing to the scrap metal dealers. Is there a curse on these mighty machines? And in this case particular why is there a need to hide in a secret location? The previous Enzo crashed involved a bankrupted tycoon. More than meets the eyes? (Me and my conspiracy theories.. hehehe)
RUSSIAN billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, badly hurt in a car crash in France, has been moved from a Marseille clinic to a location kept secret by his family. On Saturday, Mr Kerimov’s Ferrari sports car crashed on the chic Promenade des Anglais, a boulevard which runs along the sea front in the Mediterranean city of Nice. He has been in critical condition since then.
The Itar-Tass news agency quoted the Russian consulate in Marseille as saying the relatives of the 41-year-old billionaire prefer not to disclose his current location. He is worth US$7.1 billion (S$11 billion), according to Forbes magazine.
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4 Comments(+Add)
What a waste, endangering lives on public roads, wet roads!
All I can say is, “impermanence”
well, if you have the money. Like what nike says, Life short,…
Xblogger, yeah but it doesn’t give him the right to endanger other ppls’s lives while making his life short.