This is an actual receipt from Nello's in New York City. The customer was Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who had no problem dropping 47k on food and drinks for himself and five other people.

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It's big. It's $125 mil. It's hers. Plenty of space for Nick to hide… so that's fun.

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Cessna is sick and tired of everyone complaining about CEOs using their private jets. So they are launching a new ad campaign, the theme of which is basically: only cowards fly commercial. When did blinking become so dishonorable? Isn't it, like, necessary?

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The Best Links:

1. Cessna Fights Back On Private-Jet Trend
2. Cessna’s Press Release on the new ad campaign
3. Cessna: Only Wimps Give Up Their Jets
4. Trying to Live On $500,000 is SO HARD

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/fas...

You guys, it is actually really tough to scrape by on $500,000 in New York. President Obama's limits on executive pay are way harsh.

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CELEBRITY BUZZ: Oscar winner Morgan Freeman's wife, Myrna Colley-Lee, may snag up more than $100M in a divorce settlement. In related news, Morgan Freeman poops gold.

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The Best Links:

1. “Original Estimates Put the Actor’s Net Worth in the $75 Million to $90 Million Range, But Now It is Being Reported He May Be Worth As Much As Three to Four Times That Amount.”
2. Morgan Freeman Is CRAZY Loaded (And Now His Ex-Wife Is, Too)

Suri Cruise or Kate Hudson?

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CELEBRITY BUZZ: The world’s foremost celebrity photographer is $715,000 in the hole, despite earning a rumored cool $2M at Vanity Fair annually. If only she’d had a nickel for every time someone mentioned Miley Cyrus’s exposed shoulder .

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The Best Links:

1. “The 58-year-old Photographer Allegedly Owes Money for Unpaid Taxes, an Aborted Book Project, and Outstanding Equipment Rental Fees.”
2. Leibovitz Denies the Claims
3. Miley Cyrus In Vanity Fair - Featured on BuzzFeed

Looks like someone actually bought the I Am Rich iPhone App, albeit accidentally. Here’s a hint about the internet: Clicking the ‘buy’ button usually leads to things being purchased.

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CULTURE BUZZ: An article in Make magazine about how uglify your fancy bike in order to deter thieves is part of the larger ‘stealth wealth’ trend. The counter movement to ‘bling’ is all about inconspicuous consumption (logos are so gauche). It’s still about consumption, but with subtler clues to your social status.

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The Best Links:

1. “U-G-L-Y Your Bike “
2. Stealth Wealth: Un-Pimp Your Ride
3. Stealth Wealth & Ugly Bikes
4. Stealth Weatlh - Death of the Blatently Obvious LV Logo Handbags
5. No Labels for ‘stealth Wealth’ Fashionistas
6. What Is Stealth Wealth?
7. “The New Face Of British Prosperity - Bling Is Dead, Stealth Wealth Is In”
8. Stealth Wealth

CULTURE BUZZ: Virgin CEO Richard Branson conducts a wedding on a mid-flight airplane to outer space. Add this to the list of things you’ll never get to do. Perhaps the closest taste you’ll ever get is one of these zero-gravity sex chairs .

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The Best Links:

1. Virgin Galactic To Do First Space Wedding, But What About a Space Honeymoon?
2. $200,000 Is Just the Deposit on a Space Wedding
3. Virgin Receives 2 Reservations Already
4. One Way to Sweep Your Loved One Off Their Feet
5. Richard Branson to Officiate First Wedding In Space
6. New Wedding Locations: Earth, Atmosphere, On the Moon, Or Somewhere in the Great Beyond?

CULTURE BUZZ: The handsomest Johnson there is? Smart, young, and attractive, director/Johnson & Johnson heir Jamie could come straight from a Gossip Girl plot line. Related: His upcoming doc, The One Percent .

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The Best Links:

1. The Superrich Are Totally Psyched About Recessions
2. Jamie Johnson Loves It When You Hate the Rich
3. Confessions of the Ultra-Rich
4. Sorta Like “Milton Friedman & Me”
5. Marxist Heir Actually Becoming Kind Of Hot?
6. The Wealth Report - WSJ.com : Jamie Johnson: Unappreciative of Self-Made Wealth?
7. He Writes, Too! ::Swoon::
8. “He’s Handsome and Smart, and Trying to Create a Better World. He’s Also Single.”