Necker Island, British Virgin islands, is part of Virgin Limited Editions, the group that the vakantieparadijzen of Branson manages. The Virgin boss bought the island in 1978 for a bargain. The asking price was 6 million dollars, and he offered $ 100,000 for. The broker laughed his bid road. But when the island a year later was for sale, drew Branson are my courage. He could domain buy for less than 180.000 dollar. He had to be there within the year a resort build on it. It was a super-luxury resort, where the stars of this world like to stay. The billionaire will receive there are also friends, family and acquaintances.
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