Celebrity, Movie Stars, The World's Most Exclusive Property (page2)
To get a taste of the hermit life, actress Gwyneth Paltrow spent three days
on an uninhabited Caribbean island in Belize. Provided with amenities like a
sack of rice, three oranges, some cooking utensils, aspirin, a mosquito net,
notebook and camera, she wrote a diary for the US edition of Marie Claire magazine.
These three days of solitude and relaxation were obviously quite enjoyable:
“I can understand people who get stuck on a Caribbean island and never
want to return”, she told Marie-Claire’s readers. She is now reputedly
in the market for an island in the Bahamas.
But other Hollywood celebrities, too, yearn for peace and seclusion –
although of a less ascetic variety than Miss Paltrow’s Robinson Crusoe
adventure.
In the 1950s, Marlon Brando, who was at the time shooting “Mutiny on the
Bounty” in the South Seas, fell in love with Te’tiaroa Island not
too far off Tahiti. In the past, this idyllic coral island had been inhabited
by Polynesian princesses who were fattened there before their weddings to comply
with the opulent beauty standards of their culture. Brando purchased Te’tiaroa
from a British dentist, who had been given the island by the reigning king of
the atoll for curing the monarch of a persistent toothache.
Novelist Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) loves the tranquility of his
island in Mahone Bay, Ireland so much that he has purchased the surrounding
islands as well – he wants to go on seeing a panorama of trees and water
instead of other houses.
Actor Nicolas Cage became so desperate for privacy that he has bought his own
Bahamian island. The star got a taste for island life whilst filming the movie
version of Louis de Bernieres' novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) on the
Greek island of Cephalonia. The actor bought his very own 50 acre island in
the Bahamas with wife Patricia Arquette. The couple who were said to be on the
brink of divorce, are looking forward to spending time alone on the island.
Some VIPs loved their personal islands so dearly the wanted to buried there.
Publisher Malcolm S. Forbes was laid to rest on the South Sea island Laucala,
shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis’s tomb can be found on the Mediterranean
island Scorpios, and Princess Diana is buried on an islet situated on the Spencer
family’s estate.
Celebrities Reported in the Market
Bill Cosby, Michael Jordan and Gloria Estefan have investigated island ownership
in the Florida Keys.
Michael Douglas, who finds his Majorcan holiday villa too often besieged by
star-struck fans, wants to make an island his second vacation home.
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