Last week we discussed how, when you buy a yacht, you’re buying a stage. It is an ideal place for not-so-poor players to strut and fret their hours away (and for the paparazzi to take pictures of bon vivants in their bathing costumes). This week it’s the magnetic power of yachts that I want to talk about. Or rather, the ability of these big water hotels to attract some of the strangest mixes of people, like a cursed salon on open seas.
The most random people in the world will get together on the deck of a yacht and it will always make sense logically. Why? Because that guy has a yacht. What are you going to do? Say no to an invitation aboard? Obviously not.
This weekend, French DJ David Guetta came together with couple Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner off the coast of Spain. They all said yes to a yacht. Whose yacht? I can’t tell from the photos, but it sure looks like an Arnault son is there.
This is like when Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Brady were spotted aboard the same weather deck recently. Or when Oprah, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, and Julianna Margulies were all on David Geffen’s yacht. Or when Andy Cohen joined Anderson Cooper and his ex Benjamin Maisani, Bradley Cooper and his ex Irina Shayk, Allison Williams and her ex Ricky Van Veen on Diane von Furstenberg’s yacht. You’re like, huh? These people seem like they’d at most know each other in passing or in a work context, but not as friends who would go on vacation together.
And then you’re like, I don’t know, I guess that makes sense. They are all “names” and they all said yes to a ride in a big boat. Who wouldn’t? Maybe they’re all actually very good friends, but the likeliest reason that they’re all spending precious time off together is because someone said, Come on my yacht? Tom Hanks will be there.
For their part, Ivanka and Jared’s boating adventure is the latest in a long road of travels. They are in their endless summer era, voyaging from Costa Rica to Greece to Jordan for Crown Prince Hussein and his new wife Rajwa’s wedding. You can’t be called out for not being by your embattled father’s side when you’re on another continent, you know. And famously, it’s very easy to outrun your troubles. You just have to keep it moving.
Kenzie Bryant
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