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Pat Boone Buys A Residence On The Utopia Yacht

Singer Pat Boone is taking to the sea. Utopia Residences announced that Boone and his family have just acquired a luxury apartment onboard the new residential ocean liner, Utopia. The Utopia will circle the globe and visit cities hosting sporting and cultural events such as the Cannes Film Festival, Monte Carlo Grand Prix, The Olympics, Carnaval, Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, Melbourne Cup and other worldwide events. Pat Boone said, "I am excited to take my family to these world class events on the world's most luxurious ship. Everyone in my family is thrilled about having future family reunions on the Utopia and traveling the world without leaving our home on the sea."

The ship has not officially launched its international sales of its 200 residences yet. As we reported last year, the project is a $1.1 billion super cruiser being built in Korea.The 1,000-foot, 105,000-ton ship will be completed in 2013. The 200 floating apartments will range from 1,400 to 6,600 square feet and last year we heard that they had a starting price of $3.6 million. There will also be a 204-room hotel on board, a fact that makes it different from a similar concept, The World of Residensea ship which is all owned units.

Utopia Residences has opened a showroom on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and is also selling through Douglas Elliman in New York City. The Utopia venture is being financed by a majority of New Mexico investors and the project's lead investors are the Chant and Robb families. David Robb serves as Utopia's chairman while Chris Chant is its president. Frank Carlucci, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense and co-founder of The Carlyle Group, is also involved and the project is backed by Frontier Group, a private equity firm founded by Carlucci.

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Pat Boone Wants To Sell You A Steak

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining

Emeril Lagasse and Donald Trump have new competition in the steak business, Pat Boone. The singer has entered the meat market with Pat Boone All-American Meats, a new line that features thick-cut filet mignon, ribeye, top sirloin, New York strip, T-Bone and Porterhouse. The steaks also give back through the Five Percent for Hunger program which donates five percent of the purchase price to the Pat Boone Foundation which supports organizations actively addressing the problem of world hunger.

The company is a brand of Worldwide Premium Packers, Inc., headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Products are flash frozen and shipped via FedEx in reusable, insulated containers, packed in dry ice to ensure they arrive fully frozen. According to an article in the Gazette the company's key demographic is Christian, conservative women over age 55 who aren't just buying steak, they are buying into Boone's value system. That demographic may also include cowboys. The brand recently announced a partnership with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to have the steaks as the "Official Steaks of the PRCA and Wrangler National Finals Rodeo."

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