{"id":29204,"date":"2010-10-11T17:25:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/did-armani-buy-skorpios\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T17:25:54","slug":"did-armani-buy-skorpios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/did-armani-buy-skorpios.php","title":{"rendered":"Did Armani Buy Skorpios?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2991\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2010\/10\/08\/did-armani-buy-skorpios\/scorpios\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2991\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/0d103_scorpios-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"skorpios\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>The internet is buzzing with news that high-end fashion designer Giorgio Armani recently purchased Skorpios one of the world&rsquo;s most beautiful and expensive private islands. In closing the deal, said to be worth about $190 million according to reports in the European press, the designer faced stiff competition from rival bidders including Bill Gates, Roman Abramovich and Madonna.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Located in the Ionian Sea off the Western coast of Greece, the&nbsp; island formerly belonged to famed Greek shipping billionaire Aristotle Onassis and was the site of his wedding to Jackie Kennedy. It was sold to Armani by his granddaughter and heiress, Athina Onassis Roussel. There is a lavish villa <span>on the island known as the Pink House which Onassis built for Jackie, along with tennis courts and plush gardens, though most of the island remains undeveloped and pristinely beautiful.<\/span><\/p><p><span>I am hearing more and more reports that Armani did indeed purchase the island, however I suspect that the rumours of Gates and Madonna in the bidding process are just gossip. More to come!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is buzzing with news that high-end fashion designer Giorgio Armani recently purchased Skorpios one of the world&rsquo;s most beautiful and expensive private islands. In closing the deal, said to be worth about $190 million according to reports in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/did-armani-buy-skorpios.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islands"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}