The stunning mansion has a two-story wood-paneled foyer with a sweeping staircase, elegant living and dining room, a tony professional screening room, library, family room, billiards room, card room and two full-sized kitchens.

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Although the bathrooms are still bigger than most people's living rooms, it is all done in an understated and elegant way, a million miles from the gold taps and acres of shag-pile which once defined Dubai.

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He would dream of himself living on the streets, sleeping on subways, trying to sell flowers to passing pedestrians dressed in elegant clothes, but to no avail.

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