Collage showing the exterior of the Chateau Louis XIV in Louveciennes (L) and photo of Saudi Arabias Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — Cogemad Website/ AFP

Prince Mohammed bin Salman stays in ‘world’s most expensive home’ during Paris trip

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Collage showing the exterior of the Chateau Louis XIV in Louveciennes (L) and photo of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — Cogemad Website/ AFP

PARIS: During his trip to France to meet President Emmanuel Macron, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is staying at a lavish chateau dubbed “the world’s most expensive home” when he purchased it in 2015.

The Chateau Louis XIV in Louveciennes outside Paris is a new-build mansion intended to mimic the extravagant luxury of the nearby Versailles Palace, once the seat of the French royal family.

— Cogemad Website
— Cogemad Website

The 7,000-square-metre property was bought by an undisclosed buyer in 2015 for 275 million euros ($300 million at the time), leading Fortune magazine to call it “the world´s most expensive home.”

Collage showing the exterior of the Chateau Louis XIV in Louveciennes — Cogemad Website
Collage showing the exterior of the Chateau Louis XIV in Louveciennes — Cogemad Website 

in Salman, 36, was reported two years later by The New York Times to be the ultimate owner via a series of shell companies.

Local government officials confirmed to AFP that the controversial heir to the Saudi throne was staying at the property ahead of his dinner with Macron later on Thursday.

—  Cogemad Website
—  Cogemad Website

Reporters outside the perimeter wall saw security personnel in suits guarding the entrance and a large police presence, including half a dozen vehicles.

Khashoggi link

In a twist of history, the Chateau Louis XIV was built by slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s cousin Emad Khashoggi who runs a luxury property development business in France.

The chateau features a nightclub, a gold-leafed fountain, a cinema, as well as an underwater glass chamber in the moat that resembles a giant aquarium with white leather sofas.

—  Cogemad Website
—  Cogemad Website

Chateau Louis XIV was built in 2009 after a 19th-century castle on the plot was bulldozed.

Bin Salman’s extravagant spending since emerging as the main powerbroker in Saudi Arabia has repeatedly made headlines.

—  Cogemad Website
—  Cogemad Website

The son of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud bought a $500-million yacht in 2015 and was also reported to be the mystery buyer of a $450-million Leonardo da Vinci painting in 2017.

The latter purchase has been officially denied.


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