Billionaires Compete to Get Highest Champagne Tab

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed)
Jul 30th 2010 at 7:01PM

Billionaires entertain themselves differently than everyone else, case in point at St Tropez last week when two partying tycoons got into a competition over who could rack up the highest champagne bill. The competitors were Malaysian billionaire Zhen Low, little brother to the more famous Jho Low, and Winston Fisher of the prominent New York real-estate family. The competition to see who could order more £600 bottles of Cristal took place at Les Caves du Roy nightclub and the winning bar tab, belonging to Zhen Low, came out to be a whopping £1.77 million ($2.6 million). That's a lot of champagne.

And among the guests witnessing the competition and helping Low to celebrate his win was none other than the infamous Paris Hilton who has been spotted all around St. Tropez this summer with her sister Nicky.

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marthalinam Jul 30th 2010 7:32PM

this is pretty normal behavior when celebrities are in night clubs. athletes usually do it.

waitaminute Jul 30th 2010 9:06PM

that's 2,834 bottles of champagne wasted by just one half of the "competition".

I'd like to know *how* that was consumed. I'd say it was an exercise in profligate bombast by an emotionally empty, unhappy man.

LookingGlass Jul 30th 2010 9:10PM

calculation error. The wasteful, dishonorable Low party ordered 2,950 bottles.

Were they all actually opened? Perhaps they'd have had more fun throwing the bottles at each other.

rex Jul 30th 2010 10:09PM

Ironic that this happened in France since they beheaded rich idiots
back in 1789 for this type of over the top, disgusting
behavior.....Damn shame they still aren't.

Incidentally, what the hell is a Malaysian MUSLIM doing blowing over
two million dollars on verboten alcohol??? I'm sure this story will
go over big in his homeland where the average Malaysian earns less than
$4k annually.

verdegrrl Jul 31st 2010 12:28PM

Rex, I believe Zhen Low appears to be a Chinese Malaysian. That means he very very likely isn't Muslim. While the Malay religion (Islam) tends to over-shadow the other ethnic groups when representing Malaysia, there is a considerable Chinese and Indian component to the country - neither of which tend to be Muslim.

Ravi Shanghavi Jul 30th 2010 10:11PM

I call bull****, assuming the other party was almost in line with what one fellow ordered.. that'd make a combined 6,000 bottles of Cristal. A semi-trailer can hold around 1,000 cases. Six bottles to a case.. so these people supposedly ordered a trailer full of Cristal.. right. Or a club had a trailer full of Cristal as stock.. right. Yes it is St.Tropez... but just try to break down the number of bottles by time... assuming they were there for five hours. that's 1200bottles per hour.. or a 20 bottles per minute..

Believe the story yet? 20bottles a minute? I'm aware the story was originally published by another media outlet, but I expected more from the Luxist. What's next.. Elvis sightings?

-Ravi Shanghavi, Ottawa

tim Jul 30th 2010 10:41PM

Have you heard of fact checking?

http://gawker.com/5600145/paris-hiltons-mysterious-malaysian-party-boy-tells-all

John Jul 31st 2010 7:35AM

Even if true, this has nothing to do with luxury and everything to do with ostentation. Very, very different things.

farm boy Jul 31st 2010 7:09PM

ya i call bull**** as well, at £600 a bottle, i stopped calculating when the number of bottles was not making sense...i have seen rich guys spray each other with champagne nonstop, but even after 30 bottles on a hot day the novelty wears off....so luxist is way off.

reallytorkedoff Jul 31st 2010 10:09PM

I think TIM nailed it with the article reference.

I agree with everyone else about the numbers being way off, even assuming a criminally high markup.