Expensed home décor splurges of the rich and powerful
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Making sense of the Bank of Canada interest rate decision on December 11, 2024
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- Former Tyco International CEO and convicted fraudster Dennis Kozlowski reportedly expensed a $6,000 shower curtain woven with gold to his one-time employer before getting the boot.
- Actor Daniel Radcliff, everyone’s favourite child wizard and fervent believer in the power of a good night’s sleep, once dropped $17,000 on a custom-made Savoir mattress.
- Demonstrating the true spirit of Christmas, former boxer Mike Tyson bought his first wife Robin Givens a $2-million bathtub for the holidays one year.
- Hans-Adam II, the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein, paid a cool $36 million for the “Badminton Cabinet,” an 18th century Florentine ebony chest inlaid with hard and semiprecious stones. Apparently, it really tied his living room together.
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