Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov wanted to buy a house. Not just any house: Lily Safra’s Villa Leopolda, in Villefranche-sur-mer, France. And then, according to Forbes, Prokhorov backed out ...

Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov has to pay $53 million for a French villa he does not own.A court has ruled that Prokhorov must forfeit the 10 percent deposit he put down on a $527 million ...

A sumptuous villa on the French Mediterranean coast has become the world's most expensive house after selling to a Russian billionaire for £390 million. The sprawling Villa Leopolda on the Cote d ...

The Villa Léopolda, one of the most sumptuous and legendary estates on the Côte d'Azur, has been sold to a Russian billionaire for €500m (£390m), smashing the record for the most expensive ...

A Russian tycoon has bought France's priciest house and the most expensive villa in the world. By Peter Allen in Paris 17 August 2008 • 7:24pm The sprawling Villa Leopolda on the Cote d'Azur ...

News reports out of London and France this morning say a villa in France has become the most expensive home ever sold. Villa Leopolda, the legendary estate on the Côte d'Azur built by King ...

Mikhail Prokhorov denied having bought the Villa Leopolda in southern France for more than half a billion euros, contrary to a report by French newspaper Nice Matin that sparked vivid reactions in ...

A Russian billionaire who failed to complete a deal to buy one of France's most beautiful houses also lost his deposit on Monday, to the tune of €39-million ($53-million U.S.). Mikhail Prokhorov ...

(Nickel King) Mikhail Prokhorov worth about 22 billion US dollars said he was not the mystery buyer of the southern France property. The Villa Leopolda in Villefranche-sur-Mer, on the CÃ'te d ...