When the yacht craze started, Donald Trump briefly jumped in. In 1987, he acquired the megayacht, Nabila (with 100 rooms and a disco) from the Saudi businessman, Adnan Khashoggi, after he was indicted for mail fraud. Trump renamed it the Trump Princess and held onto it for a couple years, only to sell it to pay down a $3 billion debt. In 1998, Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen launched the Octopus. According to Osnos, it “was so large that it contained a helicopter hanger in its belly, as well as a helicopter hanger that could be converted into an outdoor performance space. Mick Jagger and Bono played on occasion.” More
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