Dubai Billionaires and Their Luxury Homes and Toys - Documentary

If you had come to Dubai a few years ago, you would have found this sand and a lot of sand. Something amazing happened. The fantasy became reality in just 20 years. Dubai went from a desert to a stunning oasis of stone, marble, concrete, glass and roaring excitement, but the bolder and crazier the idea, the more likely it was to be accepted. Giant islands shaped like palm trees that could be seen from space and would soon become the tallest skyscraper in the world, a modern Tower of Babel, slices of the clouds. It was almost a kilometer above the ground Dubai has become the center of the modern gold rush, but the big question for Dubai is whether this great global credit crisis will affect here and whether that will turn Dubai's dream into a nightmare.

Of the seven states that make up the United Arab Emirates under the rule of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, this reputation is a tax-free paradise and a land of opportunity that has attracted one hundred and twenty thousand Britons, all chasing the dream of Dubai that both have completely. you lost your marbles, I mean, you paid fifty million dollars for a lot of sacks, a dream in which your position in society can rise overnight and there are great riches available to a state that finances 17 million pounds to partners in Dubai In a country where sharia-based law applies to partygoers wearing crop tops, what is it really like to live here?

I mix with the locals, I talk tactics with the man who bought Man City, there's the Burj Al Arab, but what about the global financial crisis? Are you feeling the pressure? You say that critics make people think. Well, well, there is no credit crisis in Dubai, it is not coming, it is here, but behind all this lies the fact that in just 10 years Dubai's oil will run out. the race is on if you had invested in property here over the last six years, I'm giving your financial advisor a raise because you'll have easily tripled his money, but it wasn't for the faint-hearted, four miles out to sea. probably the craziest real estate investment on the planet for sale 300 islands the scene from above replicates the countries of the world this is absolutely ridiculous I have heard about this place I have seen the photos I know all the facts until you come here I like this and try it for yourself yourself, you have no idea of ​​its magnitude. 320 million cubic meters have been redistributed on the seabed.

Later, buyers don't just put the rug on themselves? I am heading to Great Britain, gentlemen, permission to come. permission to disembark granted thank you very much eggs Londoners Safiye karashi and Mustafa nari moved to Dubai four years ago between them they have just bought England. I dare to ask how much you pay for it, exceeding 250 billion dollars. You have both completely lost your minds. It means you've paid 50 million dollars for a load of sand, yes it's a sight, tell me some of the things you're going to do here, the idea is to have

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accommodation where you can carry your boat pocket right outside your village pools spas how many are we talking about are you talking in and around the hundred brands 100 villas around here so you are living in your own private villa surrounded by absolutely incredible coastlines beaches I mean you say this so that you are actually surrounded by the French there and The Germans there, I mean, they're worrying me more, you know, they've felt closer, but fortunately there's still a little bit of sea between us.

Now I'm imagining these

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villas here and even if they were only for five million dollars each, I just calculated, you'll make a profit of 450 million dollars, but fast forward the cost of construction he's still working on that, yeah , well, you're still earning what I think they call ballon a. Nice little winner, right? You could say maybe, I mean, it's a great story. Absolutely fantastic guy buys Britain. Yes, not bad. Saffy is a perfect example of a Dubai dream. Four years ago he came to grief after losing everything in a failed Internet company. Now, thanks to a series of shrewish real estate deals, he is king of England and looking to invade France, but how did this little-known desert outpost become a magnet for investors and those looking for a better life? better under the sun? good work and marketing largely through one of the beginnings here as completely ridiculous projects, you can fire me, I think the richness of glamor and a rich hedonistic playground is no surprise that back at Britt, shrouded under bureaucracy, Trapped under dark gray skies, there are so many of them somewhere.

Aspirants think this place is absolutely irresistible, even though Debye is twice the size of London. The main action unfolds in a frenzy. 20 miles along the coast. Dubai's legendary gold rush dates back to 2001, when the law was changed to allow foreign citizens. own property coincided with the launch of the most famous of Dubai's artificial island projects, Palm Jumeirah, which because it is connected to the mainland attracted investors in truckloads, my first impression is that it is enormously larger and looks like from sky only 4,000 properties were sold in The first seven or two hours have been placed for the project that is announced for a brick.

The strangest thing about Palm Island is that five years ago I would have drowned because it was all water. Nothing prepares you for the magnitude of its ideas Palm Jumeirah is so large that its central trunks support two six-lane highways at the tip three miles away from Dubai's latest five-star hotel, the Atlantis, complete with an underwater city lost in a fishbowl, the Beckhams are a big deal here as Ashley Cole and Michael Owen did the same creating a waxy Middle Eastern man. It may look like Brookside on the beach, but owning a Palmer dress is the ultimate status symbol and living the dream in the leafy D.

Your Neil Peck Neil appeared here 14 years ago and now publishes the Dubai version of the magazine GQ judging by

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cars in Bentley, a vintage Jaguar and a Ferrari, life is good, considering a Russian model wife and her glamorous friends, and I would say that life in Palme is very good, how much they have been increasing and valuing these properties. well, about four villas on either side of me, no one lives there, people who had them as an investment and they are going up at such a rate that they don't really need to rent them. I wish I was in it because many thoughts one at the beginning, for example, what would you pay well?

It was probably around seven hundred thousand pounds 2.6 million dirhams in our currency, it would be worth not 15 something like that, about six times what you paid exactly, so it's been an incredible investment. for the people who make you question your own job when you earn so much less than your house, it's there and it's there, like in any development like this, there are a few of you who know how to keep up with the Joneses absolutely, I mean, I've had So I improved my barbecue several times. Buyers learned a very British lesson. We like to be next to the sea.

Waterfront property comes at a premium and construction on the sea will be 300 miles from your shore, but when we strive to build something as simple as a Millennium Bridge, how do you create an entire city in just 20 years? I have some darlings, when I see them, this is crazy, what New Zealand is and when they built it, how did they make sure the ridge met? This is ridiculous, I mean, how many? there are towels, why would you need a hundred towers? And at the world's only seven-star hotel I tasted the Dubai dream for myself. There are times when such amazing things will be built, but they become testaments to human ingenuity.

The pyramids of Egypt. The Great Wall of China. and now the extravagance of Dubai and Dubai go hand in hand, but this really requires the gold dipped cookie, it's Ruby, this seven star hotel costs a lot to build and run but will never make a profit, but that's not the point of the Burj Al Arab. Dubai's Eiffel Tower is part of ruler Sheikh Mohammed's vision to put this place on the world map. The best rooms here will set you back $12,000 a night and will come complete with one of the hotel's 16 white Rolls Royces and his own personal servant.

They boast that they cater to every whim at the Burj Al Arab and that is certainly the case for me because I spent my entire life waiting for a bed where I could go to sleep. Look at me. I'm here to meet builder Eddie Mitchell. The last time we met was at altitude. of the property boom on the UK sandbanks Thorsen Eddie was citing futuristic properties inspired by this hotel. He has been coming here on business for five years and now he is a gold star guest giving you very special treatment. Seeing you come in was like witnessing a visit from the Queen, you know there's a cast of thousands offering you tea and dates and yes, and the lotion is the same every time I do it, but she's been with us every time for about two and six years. every time we come, whatever time of day it is at the door.

When I came home, Eddie, the last time we saw each other was on sandbanks, yes, the funny thing is that you produced properties like this, which, by any normal standard, in Britain, absolutely bark like crazy futuristic glass emporiums and concrete, anything else here. re known as mr. Boring because I mean it's not even first base, right? It is not the case. You have to love it, it's like a permanent construction site, yes, but probably the largest construction site in the world and after 30 years of construction, I just love it. You are like a pig in a pigsty, are you not here for the ones he bought at the beginning in the palm of his hand or in the world or in the Burj Dubai?

How much money do people make? I'm sure people are making many millions. I'm going to hear about them. a Chelsea footballer who had a place in the palm of his hand that he never lived in, paid 400,000 pounds for it and just sold it for three and a half million, yes, that's what he would have paid six years ago and now he would win three and a half. half a million differently without setting foot in the place yeah how did I miss this again? We should have come here six years ago, but it is always necessary to appear in these places at the right time.

I went to Sam's base right at the top. I have come to Dubai right at point P. What I need to do with you. Eddie will stay with you during downtime. We will come to the site and be builders if we want the best for buyers to always be a new and impressive place to practice. your dog, but you would never have thought that you could ski too. This is Dubai. It's 45 degrees Celsius out there and here. In fact, it's absolutely freezing. Think of Dubai and the crazy thing about the idea is that the more similar it is.

It must be accepted that there are many extraordinary works being carried out in Dubai at the moment. Some more notable than this. It will be the largest theme park in the world. It will have an area of ​​one hundred and seven square miles or two. Give me a sense of the bigger picture. than Birmingham, but even more extraordinary is the fact that they boasted the catchy name Dubai Land will be completed in two seven years. Achieve that in the current economic climate and I'll eat my sunglasses. This is a model of what the thematic part will look like.

I like it and, frankly, it's one of the most impressive things I've ever seen in my entire life. There will be life-size replicas of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, the pyramids of Egypt, even Big Ben, in the houses of parliament, there is Las Vegas. Style alone, it's four times bigger than Las Vegas, the only word for this madness, but in Dubai, bigger is better. This huge fish tank is built inside the largest shopping center in the world. Next door, yes, you are way ahead of me, the largest building in the world. I've been to many high places in my life, the Empire State Building Eiffel Tower Awards in Canary Wharf for 10 years, but I've never seen anything like this.

The Burj Dubai is already 720 meters high, making it the tallest building in the world. world, but the really scary thing is that it keeps growing all the time, please don't lean into the hole, the sheer bravado of this structure is incredible 3 returning a new story every three days is another part of Sheikh Mohammed's plan to make sure D's final height remains top secret, but the ambition is to be almost double the height of the world's next tallest building. In any case, the little Spaniard defines himself in one go, mr. Ali Al Abbar, the fifth most powerful man in Dubai, is the chairman of Email, the government-backed construction company building the tower, so we're right in the middle here on the 160th floor, but there's still 611 meters up. , as I can see, I mean, there are 20.

The 30-story war is already under construction. It staggers? I mean, does it move? Well. This is a lot. Do you know how far? I think it moves as much as possible, probably more, but just as much. Who will be here? Who will be in these fools? These are office floors. people have boughtprivate apartments there - sure, right, which one was the most expensive? You know, a booking for everyone could probably cost you around $45 million for a bargain, yes, a bargain compared to London. You know Sheikh Mohammed better than many people, how would he? you describe it.

I've been there for 15 years and there are times when

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energy is so incredible. This building here, the first time we designed it, had 90 floors and the meeting lasted a minute and His Highness said no. I said okay, so did you think about a hundred and twenty? I said no, so I just brought in the chart of all the tall buildings in the world and put this building in and said, okay, how much higher than politics? I said well, we're about 40% taller. Well, forty years ago, Depay was nothing more than a dusty fishing village, but then the rulers Sheikh Rashid had the vision to transform it into a center for the world as a port as a duty-free business center.

It was an extraordinary and bold move. The philosophy was simple, build it and they will come and come. They are now under the rule of his son Sheikh Mohammed. The vision continues. Dubai often feels more like a corporation than a state, that's because only three things matter here: finances and business success, unlike Britain where big developments can get stuck for years in red tape. and bureaucratic, here they can increase in months and the reason is quite simple, Sheikh Mohammed, whatever the Sheikh wants is done and quickly of course, being able to use millions of cheap South Asian workers has made it possible.

In 2007, accusations of slave labor conditions were made. Sheikh Mohammed created a free and confidential hotline for construction workers to report any abuse. As a result, conditions have certainly improved, but each year workers send home approximately four billion pounds in wages, so a recession in Dubai would have serious global implications, but trying to get someone to actually talk about the possibility of An economic recession here in Dubai was like trying to get blood out of a stone, I handed over Michele Canoe, a billionaire businessman from the 9th richest Arab family in the world, are you totally convinced of this vision or will there be problems?

Do you think well, now there will be many? of global economic upheaval and it was supposed to come and infect us, you know what is mentioned here, I know, says the critic, Rob's people think, wow, there is no credit crisis in Dubai in agriculture to say something , if you say it out loud, there is a perception that it will happen so we don't even call cancer cancer we call it the disease that cannot be mentioned it is the same mentality there is a credit crisis that comes divided it does not come it is here it already exists now so that people will come and say you know this is the end and the death of this area, it won't be the death of this area, which will be a natural timeout if you want to allow things to return to their normal position and then move the buyer, I think it's a It's a good place to be if you look 15 or 20 years from now, because if you look two years from now, God knows what will happen next in terms of global finance during the boom times, buying was the The hottest real estate market in the world, the carrot that made expats look here faster than a bleached blonde to a footballer.

Alan Tatem is typical of those who came chasing the Dubai dream. She landed here four years ago and is the owner. She bought luxury houses in one of the most successful real estate agents in the city today they showed me a flat target, largely not so poor, amazing views, a fairly spacious room, how big is this? It's thirteen thousand four hundred square feet, with the master suite taking up at least a third of the apartment. bedrooms here is exactly that and how much would it cost if you wanted to buy this seventeen million pounds? Who would buy a place for someone who lives on this block?

Yeah, I mean, discretion is the word, but I mean, we have sports personalities. I have presidents of countries 15 times the size of the average UK house saying size doesn't matter, I mean it's just huge, this isn't even a palmer, it's too vague a word, well it's not a kitchen , it's a restaurant, that's the the kids' bed is great, I also said the old man here's the bathroom this is ridiculous I mean how many towels are there there must be a hundred towels here why would you need a hundred hours? I mean, it's just opulence on an almost royal scale.

Not so, it's an amazing apartment, perfect for an average billionaire, amazing view, maybe not so good for a billionaire, that's why in the next phase I have its own helipad on the roof that will reach a high level all together. that's for you

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instead of just millionaires and it's going to have its own helipad and you know they're working on their own immigration so you can fly to them, well this is it, there's a Russian oligarch landing on the ceiling. and immigration officials come out, yes, another, what is a nice girl like you doing hugging seventeen million pound apartments in Dubai?

I don't know, it just happened four years ago. I set up my own real estate company and that made what were you doing in Britain? work part of the farm doing what do what um, as estate secretary, you're a secretary, diminish your role, but I mean, there's a long journey from any my secretary in a swinging state to this and you're nothing that sparkles in diamonds. and Rolex. Isn't it so nice to be good for you? It is and that's not even the half of it Helen our own polo team with eight Argentinian ponies and a full-time professional coach certainly beats writing Friday is polo day here at Arabian Ranches is a a solution for the community of expats, the chance to revel in the good life as you catch a chucker and slide up the social ladder Becky from Bingley West Yorkshire and here you are at the polo, yes I'm at the Polo, Bingley girls aren't really used to do this, let's be honest, I came here and launched a magazine for another company and I just launched this magazine and I'm 28 years old.

I wouldn't understand that, not bad for a girl from Bingley. It is easy to bring Jordan to the good life in Dubai in the buildings that are being built somehow. I hear your expectations are higher, but to live up to those expectations you're going to have to have a lot of money, especially being stylish with a personalized number two. million dollars and I will discover what it is like to live in places where hedonistic Western playgrounds exist in a country governed by strict Muslim values ​​and what happens when you cross the line. Do you live in constant fear that one wrong word could affect you in the next? plane back to Britain deported I wanted to get a close perspective on Dubai luckily the man who bought Manchester City took two Suleiman Al Fahim has a house here, has made a fortune in property and like sugar Allen of Saudi with his own show Apprentice style television and Even his own slogan impresses me what he said, he shows me the city.

I didn't realize he meant on his own private jet. He impressed me. It's amazing to think just 30 years ago, most of that would have been desert 20 years ago. This, but the smart business is the Burj Al Arab, it has become the symbol of Dubai. I mean, how much of this is ego? And you know, competitive people? Is it like they built the biggest tower? I'm going to go and build a bigger one. one, it's not about the ego, it's about to show that ability, we want to show a real family that we can do it and what they are looking for is to build something unique, something extraordinary and that this parable we attract foreigners, I mean how much money.

Do you think there's down there now that the last figure announced recently was around 300 billion US dollars? dollars swimming around the Louis. I was told that your first big project here, you made a hundred and fifty million US dollars on that deal, that's right, yeah, that's true, and you cleared, I mean, you made 150 million dollars, the good. Once they came, they are allowed to smile when I say that figure. By the way, I know it's not a lot of money for me. I mean, this is amazing. How does it feel to be a billionaire? You don't like it, you have a lot. of fun you are always smiling unit enjoyed that for us we really don't do with the cash you really enjoy with the family is that what more culture and friendship between the family relationship and the climate is now that it is a family I would like to join one Of you have these single relatives so we see the city from the air now it was time to see it at ground level in the one and only Versace Lamborghini Murcielago dr.

Suliman paid six hundred thousand dollars more than the standard car for this design model to ensure great success on Dubai highways. The important thing in Dubai is the numbers. I bet your number plays a very important role. You are one is seven, three, seven, another valuable one. one but the two most important digits I have 93 93 I bought it because that is my wife's graduation year and what they stole today was two million dollars two million dollars for 93 someone will pay you two million dollars incredible thank God His wife didn't graduate in 83, even he might have had a hard time affording it with such mind-blowing purchasing power, it won't be a surprise that all pockets are covered to shop here, one of Dubai's super malls is a little like being back. at home, to be honest, Harvey Nicks behind me are the costs there, Starbucks, Zara, is there any difference here is that you always have to be on the lookout for that unexpected visit at the multi-million-dollar Arabic milkshake, so how about a mobile phone that Do you really sell to these people? came after buying, imported four of these for half a million pounds, yes geez, one grounded, you do it when you want an upgrade, it's also easy to get sucked into the affluent lifestyle in Dubai, please just drip success, most expats here enjoy a quality of life they have only dreamed of. about back in Britain, fast villas, peeling stairs, giant swimming pools and personal maids, they spend their leisure days in 5 star hotels like this and their nights at parties covered by the society pages of Hello magazine, it's not wonder that so many are starting to feel Well, a little grandiose, after all, in Britain they were minnows here in Dubai, we're all a whale, tonight is the hot 100 party, an annual event with a local version of Hello magazine, selected a cadre of all the actors in the city in general. like some spa managers and boutique owners who make it but take it very seriously if you're in, you're in and if you're out you might as well be in the farewell magazine, you've turned it into a stranded zone where you get in when you get into the hot 100, I mean it's great to be considered sexy and apparently none hotter than yours Mr.

Piers Morgan, welcome, expat life here revolves around the 50 or so five star hotels, that's it because once inside we never need to know you. You are in a country but alcohol is frowned upon, it is illegal to kiss in public, be gay or share a flat with your girlfriend. Dubai knows it needs Westerners to succeed and deliberately turns a blind eye to what's going on, as long as they stick with it. The privately owned hotel is a sort of expat bubble where life is good and intoxicating. The Brass Tea Bar is a regular hangout for expats.

It's not far from where a couple of Brits were recently arrested for having sex on the beach, although I think that might be illegal. At home, they also have fun in a slightly more legal way. Karren Brady, 46, mother of two, from Birmingham, just deaths as usual, this could lead to darkness in general, in general, yes, less is more, less is more, less is definitely. more and what is it like, I mean look at the nightlife here every night, you can have fun without fail, it's like you don't stop often, are you making a lot of money, absolutely, millions, no money and the parties, absolutely yes, well First the money, then the party and what is it?

This man looked like you I'm not looking for the man I'm just here to have fun I've been married all my life and I'm not going to do that anymore Did you go out with Sarah sometimes Yes, I like having dinner with intellectual men, but I generally don't like, well, we should have dinner last year. 230 Britons ended up in devised prisons for a variety of offences, from drink-driving to abnormal offences, such as refusing a check if I'm not going out here, make sure you learn the law, such as having sex. Outside of marriage can lead to a year in prison.

Possession of over-the-counter medications containing codeine for years. Even Harry Potter books were recently banned from schoolsdue to witchcraft. It is strictly illegal in Dubai it is a difficult society to understand, on the one hand a traditional autocratic leader uses strict Sharia based law to rule with a rod of iron, on the other hand, and 5 star hotels you can forget that You're even in the Middle East, but the two cultures coexist in parallel universes and, except in shopping malls, rarely mix, so expats live in fear of making a silly mistake or inadvertently breaking a law that could view them with a simple swipe of the pen. deported I drove to the desert with blogger and former journalist Alexander McNab, he has been living here for almost 20 years and has first-hand experience of what happens when two cultures collide.

It's amazing when I first moved here, that was in the early 90's. here publishing a magazine we shut down because I reviewed the wrong guy's computer, there was a computer review magazine and the computer didn't work, so we said the computer not working, which, in retrospect, was probably naive of me to tell The truth is that it offended the man who was related to a man who was in a position to do something about it, so my office was sealed off by the Ministry of Information. Now the best thing about Dubai today is that it actually probably can't happen?

Is it relaxing censorship? Is it getting easier? Yes it is if you can defend a good story in which a government department behaves appallingly. I think you have a chance to post that story when I first came here. I have done it, now you are seeing accusations against some quite important figures in the government and corruption investigations are being carried out that were unthinkable here, it is a process of change if you are in the media, right here I live in permanent fear of that one wrong word could get you deported on the next plane back to Britain.

Are you worried about what you're telling me, for example? No, I don't think I have that fear. I could be horribly wrong, but I don't think I have that fear. I feel like I don't live in fear I don't live in fear of saying what I think worries me has seen two quadruple bites with a couple of government officials flipping that June is after having been listening to everything that is part of the the problem lies in the fact that the shake can change the laws practically overnight while we were filming in an attempt to stop overcrowding among unskilled workers, it was made illegal to share property with anyone except close family, if you are thinking of coming here, make sure you do your thing. homework I'm going to meet up with an old friend patty perfect moved here with her son Harry after splitting from her wayward husband Rick guitarist a status quo she went here on vacation I thought you'd be the place to change the However, the status quo It's mending a broken heart a year later and the dream of Dubai is turning sour so use the status quo tour bus so this is your beautiful piece of paradise Dubai Hacienda so this is the lounge yeah This four bedroom house is typical of the expat family lifestyle here within landscaped gated communities and transports you anywhere so this is the kitchen, fortunately for the neighbors it is separate so you are in a very nice here, but it's half an hour inland, what would you pay for your rent here?

You are going to die for £32,000 a year and have to pay up front in Dubai, so you had to write a check for £32,000 years rent up front? Yeah that seems pretty expensive to me, I mean it's ridiculous during your lease is up for renewal what are you going to do? I will take it for six months and then I just see here I go there what are they going to charge you for that 27,000 pounds which in 1 year they have almost doubled it Yes, so keep in mind that if your employer does not subsidize your rent, you will be in for a surprise disgusting.

It's terribly expensive in Dubai. It is a wonderful tax-free paradise. Yes, everything is very cheap. Actually, it is not like that. No, and you know I don't want to. ruin someone's holiday or dream of moving to Dubai, but you really have to look at it because it's not all that people seem to be seeing, they'll think I really want to come to Dubai, yeah, and yet you seem to have fallen slightly. For the love of the dream, yes, I have not done it. Oh God, where do I go now? I miss my friends. I miss my family and it's hard to meet people here because basically we're all family and when I go out.

I'm a menace, I bet you are Oh, 57, I mean, that's amazing, yeah, recently divorced, long bombshell, used to be with the wrong star, you're public enemy number one of these women, rock-cool 'n'roll, so what does the future hold? Dubai I'll be watching the changing face of society here as it throws open its doors to Western values ​​- could its secret defense against the credit crunch come down to a few familiar faces? spend to make a short division becomes the largest city in the world Pilate will receive millions, multimillions, multimillions in the UK, we have taken thousands of years to develop our laws and customs, while Dubai has only had a couple of decades to do it. try to find common ground so that the 205 nationalities can coexist happily, consider this, only 1.3 million people live here of those 200,000 Western expatriates, 900,000 Asians, mainly workers, and that leaves only two hundred thousand local Emiratis to put that For perspective, imagine living in Britain where five out of six people were foreigners and when you think about it like that you start to realize that Dubai is actually a pretty tolerant place, it's a sign of Dubai's willingness to welcome to foreigners to keep moving while someone takes you.

The full benefit of that acceptance is Derek Carr Derek is a former fashion stylist – pop stars like Salt and Pepper and Snoop Dogg is today best known as the next jewel thief. What happened? I'm very stupid in porn Jules and of course, trying hard, you don't do it. what is not yours and I dug myself into a nightmare hole I would have to go get a piece of G I will go to another company and I lied basically to get another piece and which I pawned and it became a certainty I served you two years in a prison from New York for her crimes was expelled from the United States.

I settled here in Dubai reinventing myself as a jewelry designer, there you are a convicted thief, for a better phrase, they kicked you out of the United States and then from Dubai, where you imagine they are quite strict about that kind of thing, they give you the welcome Here they accepted me in Dubai because I think I was very direct with what I had done, I was very direct with who I am and saw what I can do, it is also necessary when there are not many Derricks in Dubai, what I hear everywhere is that yes you do this, you're out, if you do that, you'll be deported, so what I haven't found is that there is any real evidence that they actually do this.

I mean, do they expel people from Dubai? Well, of course. they do it, I'm not people, well I have no idea, the collective fear of being deported, listen, the collective fear works because guess what I can open my car and especially, I'm from New York City. I could never leave my computer in the car. I do it all the time I leave the doors open at home you think rules are a small price to pay really oh what a small price to pay you know, it gives you that feeling of security and I couldn't be happier Here, on the right, beautiful, beautiful, charming, if Dubai is going to be successful now more than ever, it needs people.

He has to be seen as someone who can't afford not to be. So when Dubai can't build it, Dubai buys it by spending millions on celebrity names and most of all brands Gary promoted the latest big name attracted to the city for being good company Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White are already here and they won it , you're here at just the right time, try some of these, which is a little salmon pie. with a lemon hollandaise sauce, ungodly and disgusting that I once loved, I mean really delicious, but just to see what you swooned over like it was delicious, tell me God, you flew to Dubai, yeah, and you brought all the food up here too, oh yes.

Why are you staying in England with six degrees outside and it's snowing in the UK? Where would you choose? Do you know what it is. I just saw it. You do not know. I want to spread the word about British cuisine but a video is provided. Would you be here if there was? it's a big Arab checking where that contractor is Mike no, it's not a question of that, it's always because I mean, find a lot of brands that produce such high quality products here that they will pay whatever it takes to get you. well, I think you know, if I start cooking for money, for love, instead of cooking for something I really believe in, I'd rather quit, so there you have the definitive answer with hollandaise sauce, oh, how are you?

Hello mates, every year until the 44th. Floor, another bought brand called Mark Fuller will open a version of the London embassy club here next year, no offense Bob, but you and Gary Roads and you don't exactly know the attractive and yet they are throwing you a lot of money. If you come here, what do you gain from it? Someone was telling me today that it's great to open a hotel, but you have to attract people to do it. It's like everywhere in the world, the difference is that they are buying. a brand because it's a new country, I mean is it rude of me to push you on how many millions they paid you to kappa me and no I won't, I won't say it wasn't millions? but it was a pretty acceptable number, what about Tiger Woods and people like that?

Oh, you see, Tiger Woods, you know, Christina Aguilera is that kind of person. Kylie will get millions, several millions, millions, it's because the people of Dubai, the rulers here realize that they are celebrities. of that power they are a public relations magnet because here I think that without a doubt in the end this was a piece of desert this was a piece of sand they built a city from nothing how do you attract all of them they want to be number one? I don't want to be number two, number three, number four, they want to be Miami, they want to beat Miami, they want to be New York, they want to beat New York, you know, so the only answer is to bring it to Kylie with Beyoncé, I mean, even.

I'm single, I've played it, it's almost surreal here, it's the land of the maple leaf, it's certainly more like the land of unbelievable because the world is shaken to the core by the credit crunch. Dubai shaken by a Kylie sound in the world. Most expensive party: The Atlantis Hotel opened with a huge £7m extravaganza and it was like a lot of that went up in smoke. Let's face it for ordinary Brits living here, as long as you toe the line, life is pretty good for the investor, although even The Ultra Rifle in Dubai is fragile, it doesn't make anything of value, oil now accounts for only the six percent of its income and, although super-rich neighbor Abu Dhabi slashed nine billion pounds from its economy in October, Dubai remains exposed to three major government-backed developments.

Companies are already laying off hundreds of employees Dubai depends on foreign investors to make it work and without them Dubai's dream of becoming the largest city in the world would have to wait. I came to Dubai to find out if it really is all that is destroyed. be and the answer if you like sun and fun, glitz and glamor is a resounding yes, that's because of the credit crunch. Everyone I've met here says the same thing. Dubai will not only survive, it will thrive and that is because it is full of ambition and drive. all led by one man's extraordinary vision and absolute determination to turn this place into the largest and most successful city in the world.

For my part, I think I am borrowing the British builder's favorite phrase. Everything will be fine when it's finished.