A Century of Executive Excess

摘要

Egypt's glutton-ous King Farouk dies at age 45. The 300-pound exiled monarch ate 600 oysters per week. The King's jet-setting lifestyle and extravagant spending habits helped lead him into exile.Oxbow Group Founder William Koch pays $500,000 for four bottles of wine thought to have belonged to revolutionary and oenophile Thomas Jefferson.