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On Paris trip, Saudi crown prince stays in the “world’s most expensive home” — a chateau built by Jamal Khashoggi’s cousin
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On Paris trip, Saudi crown prince stays in the “world’s most expensive home” — a chateau built by Jamal Khashoggi’s cousin

During his trip to France to meet President Emmanuel Macron, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is staying at a lavish chateau dubbed "the world's most expensive home" when he purchased it in 2015.  The Chateau Louis XIV in Louveciennes outside Paris is a new-build mansion intended to mimic the extravagant luxury of the nearby Versailles Palace, once the seat of the French royal family.The 7,000-square-meter property was bought by an undisclosed buyer in 2015 for 275 million euros ($300 million at the time), leading Fortune magazine to call it "the world's most expensive home." French police officers and mounted police stand guard outside the gated entrance of the Chateau Louis XIV belonging to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in Louveciennes out...