During his trip to France to meet President Emmanuel Macron, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman lived in the luxury Chateau, dubbed the “Most Expensive Home in the World” when he bought it in 2015.
Chateau Louis XIV in Louveciennes outside of Paris is a new house that is intended to imitate the luxurious luxury of the Versailles Palace nearby, which was once a chair of the French royal family.
This 7,000 square meter property was purchased by buyers who were secret in 2015 at a price of 275 million euros ($ 300 million at the time), leading Fortune magazine to call it “The most expensive house in the world.”
Bin Salman, 36, reported two years later by the New York Times became the main owner through a series of Shell companies.
Local government officials confirmed to AFP that the controversial heir of Saudi throne lived in property ahead of dinner with Macron on Thursday.
Reporters outside the perimeter wall saw security personnel with a suit to keep the entrance and large police presence, including half a dozen vehicles.
Macron and bin Salman will meet at the simpler President Elysee’s palace on Thursday for the conversation that critics in the French view are inappropriate.
Bin Salman is considered by US intelligence to have approved a terrible murder and cutting journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
But after four years as an international paria, the prince was being approached by Western leaders again because they immediately sought a supply of fresh energy to replace the missing Russian production.
In the Twist of History, Chateau Louis XIV was built by Khashoggi cousin Emad Khashoggi who runs a luxury property development business in France.
Chateau features a nightclub, a golden leafy fountain, theaters, and underwater glass space in the trench that resembles a giant aquarium with a white sofa.
Photographs on the Emad Khashoggi company website, Cogemad, also show wine cups, although alcohol is prohibited in tight in Saudi Arabia.
Salman’s extraordinary expenditure since emerged as the main power plant in Saudi Arabia has repeatedly become the headlines.
The son of Raja Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud bought a cruise ship worth $ 500 million in 2015 and was also reported to be a mystery buyer of Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings worth $ 450 million in 2017.
