Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah net
worth is estimated to be around of $20 billion. There are many rich and
famous people in the world, but not everyone knows the art to splurge it.
However, Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, better known as the Sultan of Brunei is one such person who is well versed with this art of spending the
riches in the most lavish ways. One of the last remaining absolute monarchs in
the world.
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah net
worth came from reserves of oil and natural gas, that he doesn't
have to think twice about getting a haircut for a mind-boggling $21,000. His
sultanate is one of the world’s most financially affluent and communally
sheltered societies, where people even do not have to pay any kind of income
tax.
Sultan Hassanal
Bolkiah net worth made him famous for having some of the most luxuriously
customized private jets like Boeing 747-400 and Airbus 340-200. In late 1980s,
for once he was ranked as world’s richest person but later on in 1990s he lost
the title to the American businessman Bill Gates.
The Sultan's passion for the world's most
expensive, beautiful, rarest, fastest and unique cars knows no boundaries. A
portion of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah net worth goes with his personal
collection of over 7,000 high performance cars, which by some estimates is
worth more than $5 billion includes 600 Rolls Royce cars, over 300 Ferrari's,134
Koenigeggs, 11 McLaren F1s, 6 Dauer Porsche 962 LMs and a number of luxurious
Jaguars. Sultan also owns a
gold plated Mercedes in his garage. A garage, the size of five aircraft hangars, holds within it a
collection of 7000 of the world' finest cars with a combined estimated value of
$5 billion..!!
Sultan’s private jet
Boeing 747-400 is no less than a palace itself. A living room, a bed room with
details of gold and precious gold in the jet could only belong to a Sultan. The
jet is also equipped with all the modern facilities and has a separate remote
control desk. the Sultan owns Boeing 767 which is a mid-size, wide-body
twin-engine jet airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
TRIVIA:
1. Sultan's public
relations assistants were given US $1,123,830 euros each.
2. The staff who
cares his exotic birds were paid $94780 dollars.
3. Sultan paid US
$243,670 to his badminton instructor.
4. Sultan also
operates a $1 billion theme park called 'Jerudong Park'.
5. He also holds
an 'honorary commission' in the Air Force of the UK as an Air Marshal.
6. Sultan of
Brunei paid US$ 24000 for his hair cut, which was most expensive haircut ever.
7. Sultan owns
more then 2500 cars.
8. The Sultan also
owns six smaller planes and two choppers.
9. Bolkiah is also
the Prime Minister, as well as holding the portfolios of Minister of Defence
and Finance.
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