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Article: Brussels' new sanctions hit Mrs Mugabe's shopping trips
- Article from:
- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- July 23, 2002
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AS Zimbabwe's 77-year-old President Robert Mugabe rapidly destroys
his country, he and his young wife, Grace, continue to live like
American billionaires.
At one time the Mugabes even bought, from the Playboy baron Hugh
Hefner, the pornography merchant's Big Bunny, a lavishly equipped DC-
9, to go on their regular shopping trips to New York, London, Paris
and Rome.
When in London, the designer label-loving Grace insisted that she
and Robert stay in a luxury suite at Claridge's. It was conveniently
close to the elegant Bond Street and Kensington shops where she could
stock up on Harrods bathrobes, designer Church shoes, hundreds of
dresses, innumerable boxes of handmade chocolates and many ...