Paris, London and New York are no longer just the style capitals of the world; they are also the capitals where the super rich from around the world are sending their children to school.
At the beginning of the year Russian fertilizer mogul Dmitry Rybolovlev bought the most expensive apartment in New York for his daughter Ekaterina Rybolovleva. The Potash Prince paid a cool $88 million so that his daughter could study in style at one of the finest universities in the world. Which one exactly has not been released to protect Ekaterina from the paparazzi and worse.
Rybolovleva’s purchase of the apartment was blasted all over the media as an outlandish overindulgence for a spoiled little rich girl. Yet where was Ekaterina expected to live exactly if not in a secure building where there would be room for her constant bodyguard companions? Should we honestly believe that Ekaterina should be expected to live in a standard 15 X 15 student dorm room with a roommate like other college students?
The reality is that Ekaterina is not the daughter of a normal man and neither she nor her father really had much choice as to where she would live while going to college in New York City. NYC has only a finite amount of truly secure buildings and all of the apartments in them are enormously expensive. Ekaterina, by all accounts, seems to like spending time with her horses more than shopping. The media on the whole has judged Ekaterina harshly for simply living the life she has been given.
Ekaterina is not alone. This Fall the most prestigious universities in Europe and the United States have all admitted a large number of wealthy foreign students from abroad in an effort to bolster sagging budgets. Like Ekaterina, many of these students come from privileged BRICK nation families. Neither they nor their parents can imagine the students living in cramped college digs without some level of privacy and security.
According to Barrons, the kidnapping of wealthy people and their children is at historically high levels. Many kidnappings go unreported particularly in third world countries. Kidnappers are rarely caught and in many cases these are groups of professionals that have made kidnapping their full time business. Professional kidnappers carefully research, stalk and snatch victims for as little as 10-20K in reward money. College students in particular are primary targets according to Barrons.
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