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...said Lina Vega, president of Panamanian non-profit Fundación Libertad Ciudadana....
...From Marlene Dietrich and Charlie Chaplin to Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio, the A-list has dined here....
...Kim Kardashian is there, her right hand raised in a pose borrowed from Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, in a promotional shot for her KKW make-up line....
...Ahead is Vegas. Like the contracts with which he hoodwinked his star, Elvis too obliges Presley to split the movie 50/50 with his manager....
...Saturday’s white-glove auction, which drew an audience that included the actor Leonardo di Caprio, marked the first time Sotheby’s had staged an evening sale in North America outside of New York....
...I also wonder why he did not keep Leonardo’s silverpoint “Head of a Bear” (c1590), which he sold at Christie’s in London in July 2021 for £8.9m....
...However, as the maker of the smaller Vega class of rockets, and with an order book of €928m, Avio is hoping to tap into a rapidly growing market for smaller satellite launches....
...Mr DiCaprio’s name also surfaced in an allegation that Mr Low withdrew more than $1m in cash and chips to gamble with Mr Aziz and the actor at a Las Vegas casino....
...Looted funds were also used by Mr Low to pay for a gambling spree in Las Vegas with Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio and Riza Aziz, stepson of Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, according to the US Department...
...“It was his birthday a few years ago and he called me to see I wanted to come to his party in Las Vegas,” the friend says....
...He collaborated with Hunter S Thompson on the birth of gonzo journalism, with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; his books include Sigmund Freud, I Leonardo and The Big I Am....
...Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro feature in a short film directed by Martin Scorsese to promote Studio City, Melco Crown’s Hollywood-themed resort, due to open later this year....
...Leonardo da Vinci is said to have created a mechanical knight in 1495 that could stand, sit, and move its arms....
...Vega will remain controlled by Cinven and Finmeccanica....
...The space unit designs and manufactures components for commercial satellites for civil and military use, including rocket launchers Vega and Ariane 5. In 2011, it earned revenues of €297m....
...It also makes 65 per cent of the European Space Agency’s Vega satellite launcher....
...Nowadays he seems less concerned with meeting the criteria laid out by Max in Jackie Brown – “something that starts soon and looks good” – than with making films that match Vincent Vega’s description in...
...The Goldfinch introduces us to Theo Decker, a modern-day Dickensian hero, and his suitably picaresque adventures in New York, Las Vegas and Amsterdam....
...Mr Cartmell was chief executive of Vega Group, the UK consultancy and technology research group, from 2000 to May 2008, when it was sold to Finmeccanica, the Italian defence group, generating good returns...
...“It was inspired by the Da Vinci Code, and it takes in 20 historical figures from King François I (Leonardo’s client) to Marjorie Merriweather Post herself.”...
...The approach comes at a transitional moment for Vega, which counts the European Space Agency and the UK Ministry of Defence among its clients....
...Shares in Vega rose 30½p to close at 270p. Vega has net assets of £19.8m and its directors have undertaken to recommend the offer to shareholders....
...Up 8.2 per cent to 238p at the close, consulting and technology services group Vega confirmed after hours it had agreed a recommended offer from Finmeccanica of Italy....
...From Plato to Thomas More, Leonardo da Vinci to Le Corbusier, every genius has imagined the ideal city but none has got anywhere close to achieving it. The city is our most complex invention....
...Instead, America decided it would bury all its nuclear waste deep underground, within Yucca Mountain, 100 miles north-west of Las Vegas....
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