Author: Alan Wass

If you have the patience to deal with someone else’s screaming kids, ultra-wealthy families and high-end business couples are paying up to $800 a day for baby nurses to care for their newborns.

Wealthy business people who can handle hundreds of employees are starting to realize that taking care of their own newborn babies is on an entirely different level. These affluent families with moms and dads working in high-end business roles are now paying through the nose for baby nurses to not only care for their babies but also to teach them to sleep through the night.

Can Handle a Business but Not a Baby

The millionaires, billionaires, and modern-day business families of this world know how to make money. But do they know how to take care of their babies?

The traditional stay-at-home-mom and go-to-work-dad were the cornerstone of family development in the Western world until approximately 30-years ago.

In the modern business world where many women rightfully command the same respect and salaries as their male counterparts, times have changed in the family home.

According to Seth Norman Greenberg, the managing director of a New York-based domestic staff recruitment company called the Pavillion Agency had some really interesting things to say when talking to Business Insider:

“I spoke to someone the other day who said, ‘My husband’s a titan, he manages 10,000 people, and he can’t put our kid to sleep. Clients can be in any industry, from business titans, financial, manufacturing, tech — and then some people that are just retired.’”

Affluent wealthy families are paying up to $800 for baby nurses to fill the void and to teach their newborns to sleep through the night so the parents can get a proper night’s sleep.

The nurses work 22-hour shifts and barely take a day off until the kids reach three or four years old. They’re also not always registered nurses because the demand is currently so great.

Greenberg also mentioned that ultra-wealthy families who are successful from a business can do so because their homes are run for them, allowing them to do what they do best – making money!

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Did you ever order a bottle of Cristal in a swanky New York nightclub and nearly had a seizure when the bill came? If so, you better be sitting down. A bottle of 1945 Burgundy wine is now the most expensive wine in the world when recently sold at Sotheby’s for a grape-crushing $558,000 (£424,000).

1945 was a great year unless you were Eva Braun or Adolf Hitler or on board the USS Indianapolis sunk by a Japanese submarine. Then it was a stinker of a year. But it turns out, that for wine aficionados, 1945 takes the cake.

Record-Breaking 1945 Burgundy Wine

As Europe was trying to rebuild itself in the aftermath of WWII, one of France’s most prolific winemakers, Burgundy producer, Romanee-Conti created 600 bottles of wine, some of which have recently become the most expensive bottles of wine in history.

On October 13 at Sotheby’s in New York, two of those bottles sold separately for a combined total of just over $1 million. This was on the back of three 1937 vintage bottles that also sold for close to $930,000 at the same auction.

Before these five bottles became the most expensive wine in history, the original record was a six-liter bottle of Cheval Blanc 1947 that sold for $304,375 in Geneva in 2010.

The record-breaking sales of the two bottles of 1945 Burgandy wine also dwarfed the previous record for a standard size bottle, which sold for $233,000 in Hong Kong back in 2010.

When talking about the 1945 vintage, the head of Sotheby’s international wine department, Serena Sutcliffe, was very upbeat, saying:

“Rare and wonderful. The best bottles are so concentrated and exotic, with seemingly everlasting power – a wine at peace with itself.”

The first bottle sold for $558,000, and just a few minutes later the second bottle was sold for $496,000.

The wine wasn’t the only rare alcohol that was sold at the auction. A bottle of 60-year-old whiskey from 1926 fetched a heart-stopping $841,000. Although, this still failed to break the record for the most expensive bottle of Scotch which is currently at approximately $1.2 million.

If you ever get the chance to sample a glass of 1945 Burgundy wine at a high-society party or as your last request before the electric chair, make sure you take the chance with both hands.

Featured Image from Sotheby’s.

Most people will think that $5,000 per night for a luxury hotel suite is beyond reproach. But when you’re filthy rich and don’t give a damn what people think, even $75,000 per night is within budget. That is exactly what you can expect to spend for a single night in The Mark Hotel Penthouse Suite in New York.

Being a multi-millionaire or billionaire gives you the opportunity to sample aspects of life that others can’t even contemplate. Whether it’s dining on endangered species, owning Egyptian artifacts that go back to the times of the Pharaohs or purchasing your own island, a billionaire’s life is a life of untold choice.

The Mark Hotel Penthouse Suite Is the Most Expensive in America

America is home to the big, bold, and brave. And also one of the most expensive luxury hotel suite experiences on the planet. A night in The Mark Hotel penthouse suite in New York will set you back $75,000.

Situated in the prime Upper East Side of the city, known for its grandeur, glitterati and glamor, the building where the Mark Hotel penthouse suite resides was first constructed in 1927.

The hotel enjoyed major renovations in 2006 and 2009 and although the historical exterior of the building was untouched, the interior design was completely overhauled.

The new interiors were created by the lauded French designer Jacques Grange, conjuring a timeless and stylish atmosphere that is lavishly luxurious and favorably flash.

10,000 Square-Foot of Total Decadence

The penthouse is nestled across the 16th and 17th floors and encompasses 10,000 square-feet that includes a majestic 2,500 square-foot rooftop terrace with immense views of Central Park.

The luxury Mark Hotel penthouse suite comes equipped with five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a conservatory, library lounge, stately dining room, two wet bars and four awe-inspiring fireplaces that give the suite real decadence.

Bloomberg’s Chris Rovzar talked about the suite on the “Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas” segment and said that the owners of the hotel set the $75,000 per night price tag because they saw another luxury hotel suite in America for $37,000 per night and thought their penthouse was worth twice as much.

If you’re a self-respecting millionaire or billionaire looking for somewhere to lay your head in the heart of Upper East New York, why not stay in the most expensive luxury hotel suite in America? You’re one of a very select few who can afford it.

Featured image from The Mark Hotel.

Nothing says “I am filthy rich” like buying Britain’s most expensive millionaire pad. If you had a spare $210 (£160) million laying around or stashed in a Walter White-style hole in the desert, you could have been the owner of the flashiest and most expansive property in the United Kingdom. But not any longer.

A lavish penthouse apartment in one of the swankiest parts of London has just been sold for a cool $210 million. The property sale has garnered a great deal of attention in the local and national media and amongst the growing litany of young and trendy multi-millionaires and billionaires that now make the metropolis their home.

Swanky Millionaire Pad in Knightsbridge

The penthouse is a prestigious One Hyde Park property, in the high-class and breathtakingly swank Knightsbridge area, just a stone’s throw from Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge. Chic, sleek, flash, prestigious, exclusive and expensive are just a few words to describe this stunning property. But is any home worth $210 million? Apparently so.

Nestled in a prime high-end shopaholic location just meters from Harrods and Harvey Nichols and next door to the 5-star Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the penthouse is taking the phrase “conveniently located” to the next dimension.

The Knightsbridge millionaire pad is spread over two floors and comes equipped with not one, but two wine cellars, which will tickle the fancy of even the most pretentious fermented grape consumer. There are two balconies looking majestically across Hyde Park offering first-rate elevated views of aging Tai Chi practitioners and cosmopolitan dog-walkers.

The extravagant interiors scream decadence with dominating chandeliers, authentic oak floors and even bulletproof windows for the security conscious and paranoid schizophrenics.

The SAS-trained security guards are on hand to deal with any undesirables unlawfully entering the property or to take out passing Hyde Park joggers with a sniper rifle.

Exclusive One Hyde Park Development

One Hyde Park is easily one of the most exclusive property developments in the world, purchased by the Candy Brothers in 2007. They initially bought the land for £150 million ($195 million) three years earlier and then went on to construct the 86-apartment complex in one of the most prime real estate spots imaginable. Tens of millions of pounds routinely change hands as the apartments are continually bought and sold.

The buyers of the most expensive millionaire pad in the UK are remaining under the radar. Although it is known that the property was purchased in the name of two offshore holding companies on the tax haven island of Guernsey. Although the sale initially happened in May, the full details are only now coming to light.

Featured image by Rob Deutscher.