![]() For the past 15 years, nothing Barrowman has witnessed on the sparkling shoreline of the Côte d'Azur has surprised him.īarrowman's super yacht, one of the biggest in the world and previously featured on the 2015 Channel 4 documentary Million Pound Mega Yachts, appears in one of the first episode's early sequences, setting exactly the right tone for the series' portrayal of stupendous luxury. He's seen guests rack up £15,000 bills for onboard live streams of their favourite comedy shows and hosts rent an entire cinema for a private film premiere (and then decide not to turn up). He's watched young entrepreneurs spend six-figure sums in nightclubs and private jets go transcontinental for caviar. On the Riviera, which stretches from Cannes to St Tropez, the historic playground of the super-rich, he's seen or done it all. Recently, a neighbour spent several hours filling up a large swimming pool at the Monaco Yacht Club with champagne from 8,000 bottles of Cristal for guests to swim in, which is either a sticky dip or 120 schools in Africa, depending on your point of view.Įxcess is nothing new to Barrowman, who is founder of the Knox Group private equity firm and, with several properties around the world, two super yachts and a fleet of five Ferraris, worth over £1.25 billion. Besides, £20,000 is loose change compared to what the other yacht owners in the marina invest. And when the guest list regularly includes one of the world's wealthiest royals, Prince Albert II of Monaco, and a crop of Hollywood A listers, he can't scrimp on Cristal champagne and caviar. When Scottish billionaire Douglas Barrowman hosts a party aboard his £50m, 55-metre super yacht on the French Riviera, for instance, it's unusual for him to get any change out of £20,000. Read more: How to charm yourself onto a superyacht 'We've lived through a rich period of dark drama. However, it's Georgina's dead husband who conceals the most secrets of all, and the series picks apart the intricate web of corruption he left behind, with the disparate threads of depravity all leading back to one thing: art. Everyone around her, it seems, has a hidden agenda - from Constantine's vengeful first wife, Irina (Lena Olin), and her drug-addict stepson, Christos (Dimitri Leonidas), to the embittered stepson, Adam (Iwan Rheon, Ramsay Bolton from Game Of Thrones), and Georgina's former flame, Robert Carver (Adrian Lester). Upon probing the shady circumstances of his passing, Georgina opens one can of worms after another, beginning with the disappearance of the Clios family fortune. It charts the moral descent of the show's heroine, American art dealer Georgina Clios, played by Julia Stiles (best known for the Bourne series), following the inexplicable death of her husband, Constantine (Anthony LaPaglia). The show is being sold by producer Kris Thykier as "a f***ed up emotional thriller".
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