The party is over for St Tropez beach club adored by celebrities
The bills were not for the faint-hearted. “I once had a client who spent €250,000 (£200,000) in a day,” one former employee told Le Figaro. “It was a birthday party for 100 people, each with a magnum of Cristal Roderer and behind another 300 bottles to party through the night. That was La Voile Rouge.”
Last year Paris Hilton, the hotel chain heiress, reportedly spent €300,000 in one afternoon of debauchery as friends sprayed her with champagne at more than €2,000 a bottle.
The club’s owners have, for the past 11 years, been locked in a legal battle with the council of Ramatuelle, which has administrative control of Pampelonne beach.
An application by the club to renew its lease was denied after a flurry of complaints from residents.
They stated that the parties and incessant music was disturbing their peace, as was the constant whirr of helicopters flying in celebrities too impatient to take the slow boat from town.
The club’s founder issued a several appeals, and was still fighting the order to leave at his death in 2005. His son Ange took up the battle until last year, when he handed the premises over to his younger brother Antoine.
But on March 25, a Toulon administrative court ruled the club was illegally occupying public land and ordered it to close.
Despite the ruling, it was business as usual this summer, with 500 guests served per day at the club.
On Oct 3, the family’s final appeal failed and this week gendarmes started dismantling the club, taking chairs, beach mattresses, parasols and furniture.
“In a next step, the buildings will be demolished, the public maritime domain liberated and the beach restored,” stated an official.
“We are shocked by this decision,” stated Ange Tomaselli. Jean Roch, the owner of the St Tropez nightclub VIP-Room. went even further: “It’s a holy site, not just for St Tropez but for the whole world.”
source : telegraph.feedsportal.com
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