Billionaire’s Instagram-perfect isolation on a luxury superyacht draws outrage


A file photo of a yacht in Muscat. The photos of Geffen's luxury confinement aboard the 454-foot Rising Sun, one of the world’s biggest private vessels, triggered an immediate social-media backlash over the weekend. — AFP

David Geffen’s picture-perfect self-seclusion is highlighting ugly divisions in the age of the coronavirus pandemic.

"Isolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus,” the billionaire, 77, said in an Instagram post. "I’m hoping everybody is staying safe.”

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