Credit-crunched Russian billionaire asks for the £39million deposit he put down on world's most expensive house...Mikhail Prokhmorov - who is Russia's richest an and is worth £9.8billion - offered £500million to buy Villa Leopolda on the French Riviera last August.
But since then the 48-year-old metal tycoon has lost billions thanks to the international financial crisis...Mr Prokhorov has asked for his deposit back from Lily Safra, widow of Lebanese banker Edmond Safra.
But she has refused his request, telling estate agents: ?The deal was agreed in principle, and the money is owed to me.? ...Mr Prokhorov, in turn, claims that property prices have collapsed since August, and the figures originally discussed were unreasonable...Mr Prokhorov's spokesman has denied the report, insisting his boss would not do business in France until the authorities apologise for arresting him in a prostitution probe two years ago in the ski resort of Courchevel.
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