Just A Plane?

Earlier this week I mentioned that Mukesh Ambani is the newly minted world's richest man and one of the world's most profligate spenders (yet he couldn't chip in a dime to charity). Well, he did his legend proud with his latest gift to his wife Nita... Ambani spent $59 million for an Airbus 39 for his wife's 44th birthday. Her new toy is a corporate jet with a bar, a master bedroom, showers, an entertainment cabin with games, music and movies as well as a cabin for business with wireless and satellite systems.

Gee- that sounds like a really terrible gift.

http://www.luxist.com/2007/11/03/ambani-buys-his-wife-an-airbus-319-for-her-birthday/

Meet The World's Richest (and Least Philathropic) Man

The world first became familiar with Mukesh Ambani when we saw the plans and pictures of his planned billion-dollar skyscraper home. It turns out that Ambani, who was known as the richest man in India, is now said to be the richest man in the entire world easily skating past Carlos Slim, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and fellow builder of blockbuster homes, Lakshmi Mittal. Ambani can certainly buy the diamond iPhone.

BloggingStocks took a look at the actions of the top five reporting that Gates and Buffett are also the world's biggest philanthropists and that Slim has also pledged a desire to set up a $10 billion foundation. While Ambani is just the chairman of Reliance Industries and his businesses include petrochemicals, oil refining, textiles, retail and biotechnology. It appears that his efforts on behalf of his fellow man just might be limited to subsidizing the 600 staff his new home is said to require. Guess he can't spare a square.

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/10/29/mukesh-ambani-billion-dollar-decisions-from-a-billion-dollar-ho/