IN normal circumstances, Johnny Ronan’s lifestyle would be a personal matter. While most newspapers have ignored him, some, and not just the tabloids, have enjoyed chronicling details of the 52-year-old businessman’s relationship with 20-something model and TV presenter Glenda Gilson.

P. Diddy bought his son a $360,000 (€254,000) car for his 16th birthday.

THE world outside may be in the thralls of crisis, with house prices plunging, markets slumping and banks collapsing; but Russia’s cocooned super-rich can still spare 2.5 billion roubles (€70.5 million) for a Moscow townhouse apartment within strolling distance of the Kremlin.

THEY cost a veritable king’s ransom; a royal, aptly enough, is involved in their design and they offer a private getaway to a little corner of paradise.