CULTURE

Photos: Lifestyles of the Rich and Shameless

Today’s zillionaires have taken living the good life to the next level.

by Christa D’Souza

Guy Bourdin
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Photograph by Guy Bourdin.

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A valet at the Paris home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, with the couple’s pugs. Photograph by Horst P. Horst.

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Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, on a jaunt to Florida, 1956. Courtesy of Morgan Collection/Getty Images.

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Inside Frank Sinatra’s plane, 1964. Courtesy of B22 Design.

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Vladislav Doronin’s home in Moscow. Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects.

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Photographer: Roe Ethridge

Petra Eccelstone at home in Los Angeles, 2012, photographed for W’s March 2012 issue.

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The interior of Roman Abramovich’s yacht. Courtesy of Superyacht Guide.

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Whale-foreskin-covered stools on Aristotle Onassis’s yacht, Christina O. Photograph by Mark Greenberg.

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A hallway on Christina O. Photograph by Mark Greenberg.

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The yacht in Monaco harbor, 1957. Photograph by Edward Quinn.

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Princess Luciana Pignatelli, at home in New York, 1977. Courtesy of Santi Visalli/Getty Images.

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Pignatelli’s book on beauty, 1971. Courtesy of McCall Publishing Co..

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Andrey Melnichenko’s yacht, designed by Philippe Starck. Photograph by Guillaume Plisson.

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The pool at the Laucala Island resort, Fiji. Courtesy of Laucala Island Resort.