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RockResorts gets Bahamas bid
RockResorts, the luxury hotel subsidiary of Vail Resorts Inc., announced Thursday it has been awarded the management contract for the new $700 million Rum Cay Resort Marina in the Bahamas.The 870-acre Rum Cay will become RockResorts' first international property. It is being developed by Nassau, Bahamas-based Montana Holdings.
RockResorts will manage the hotel and spa facilities, along with a marina village and golf facility.
"We continue to focus on resorts in and around our ski resorts, but we're also looking to extend that reach to other unique settings," said said Jeffrey Jones, senior executive vice president at Vail Resorts. "This is one of those."
The Rum Cay hotel, which will open in 2009, will feature approximately 100 rooms and 80 fractional-ownership villas.
Hiding out at Bond's birthplace
Maggie O'Sullivan traces 007's Jamaican roots to a villa by the sea.Casino Royale may have been partially filmed in the Bahamas but the original novel, as every Bond fan knows, was written in Jamaica, where Ian Fleming wrote all of the 007 thrillers. The villa, which Fleming christened Goldeneye, is just along the coast from Unity House at Oracabessa. Built for £2,000 in 1946 on what had originally been a donkey racecourse (older locals still refer to the property as "the racecourse"), Goldeneye fell into disrepair after Fleming's death in 1964 and was eventually bought by Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records, in 1976. Goldeneye is now run as a secluded resort by Blackwell's hotel company, Island Outpost, which owns three other properties on the island.
Anna Nicole Smith's Darkest Moments Rendered Darker By Failure To ...
Despite having raked in untold millions selling every available photo, video, and autographed autopsy diagram relating to the death of her son and birth of her baby daughter, Anna Nicole Smith is still having difficulties making the monthly mortgage payments on her Bahamian home, which she insists was a gift from real estate developer G. Ben Thompson. TMZ is now reporting that Thompson, as part of his ongoing effort to evict the sedated new mom, has had the power turned off: Without warning, Anna had no juice for her hairdryer, no power to watch herself on "E.T." -- nothing. Four hours later, after lots of threats from her lawyer, the power company agreed to a temporary reprieve until today. But wait, there's more! Thompson and his son-in-law flew to the Bahamas on Friday and the son-in-law got on the property and served Smith with an eviction lawsuit.
Get out of Bahamas home, former beau tells Anna Nicole
NASSAU, Bahamas -- A businessman embroiled in a property dispute with Anna Nicole Smith said Thursday he wants to evict the reality TV star from the mansion where she has been secluded since her son's death in September.South Carolina developer G. Ben Thompson, who says he is a former boyfriend of Smith, told reporters that he lent her money to buy the waterfront mansion for nearly $1 million, but she has failed to make payments on the mortgage.
Smith, a former Playboy Playmate, has cited ownership of the home as the basis of her claim of residency in the Bahamas, where she came to give birth to a daughter. Her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died at the hospital three days after she gave birth.
Smith told him that he was the father of her new daughter, he said. The developer, however, told reporters that he's certain he is not the father.
Palm Beach County reports no Masilotti meddling on Posse land bid
Disgraced politician Tony Masilotti didn't exercise undue influence over a county land sale in which federal authorities say the former county commissioner had a hidden financial stake, according to a county staff report released Tuesday.While Masilotti kept a close watch over the sale of a county-owned, 10-acre parcel -- dubbed the Posse property -- to his close friend and campaign contributor, Bruce Rendina, "nothing interfered with the fair and impartial evaluation of the proposals," according the report from the county's property and real estate management director, Ross Hering.
At the same time Masilotti intervened on Rendina's behalf after the bidding ended, the ex-commissioner was taking numerous free plane rides to the Bahamas and elsewhere from Rendina without disclosing the gifts, according to the U.S.