Prokhorov, the richest Russian, wanted to buy VillaLeopolda, the world's most expensive villa on the southern coast of France, for 500 million euros in 2008. At that time, he paid a deposit of 39 million euros, but later he wanted to cancel the order and finally went to court with the seller. On March 20 1 year 1 day, in court, prokhorov was ruled that it was invalid to recover the deposit. Because according to French law, if the buyer cancels the purchase intention unilaterally, the seller shall not return the deposit if the seller and the buyer agree on the sales price and conditions. The economic crisis made the richest man want to cancel the purchase of this mansion. Prokhorov, 44, has assets of nearly 6.57 billion euros. The reason for canceling the purchase of this mansion is that his net worth has fallen due to the economic crisis. Prokhorov thinks that the price he negotiated with the seller Lily Safra in 2008 is unreasonable due to the falling house price, so he wants to cancel the transaction and get the deposit back.

Another reason why prokhorov canceled the purchase was that in 2007, he was investigated on suspicion of taking prostitutes to a party during the anti-vice campaign of the French police. Prokhorov was arrested and detained for four days. Although it was not prosecuted later, Russian media reported that this was a deliberate insult by France to Russia. Prokhorov was very angry about it. Lily Zafra is the widow of EdmondSafra, a rich banker. The court also awarded Lily Zafra 6,543,800+5,000 pounds in compensation to compensate Lily for the loss during the cancellation of the order in prokhorov, including hiring 27 gardeners, servants and chefs to take care of the mansion. Lily Zafra said that she would donate 6,543,800 euros to the neuroscience research project at King's College London and Imperial College London, London respectively.

John cleese Morgan has announced that he will buy the world's most expensive mansion, VillaLeopolda Polda, on the southern French coast of C? te d 'Azur for $800 million, and has reached an agreement with Lily Safra to become the new owner of Villaleo Polda.