Thank you for your efforts!
Sonar
: Now, I'm even more curious lol..
: I've searched out which celebs (publicly) live around Lake
: Geneva. I'm sure some houses are owned by private
: individuals or companies and then leased to celebs. After
: all, they (corporations) get their marching orders from the
: El-ite too...
: While this first link isn't concentrating on Lake Geneva, the
: amount of Celebs living in Switzerland (full or part-time)
: is astounding!)
:
: https://www.thelocal.ch/20160712/nine-top-celebrity-hotspots-in-switzerland
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: On or around Lake Geneva
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: Shania Twain. The Canadian queen of country pop currently
: lives in the town of Corseaux, overlooking Lake Geneva,
: near Vevey in the canton of Vaud. According to media
: reports, she shares her home with her husband Frédéric
: Thiébaud, a Nestlé business executive who's very high up in
: the company.
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: The Colgate (Palmolive) Heirs live on Lake Geneva. Their home
: is on a boat tour. Also, one owned by the descendants of
: Napoleon Bonaparte.
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: Phil Collins. A resident of the canton of Vaud, the British
: pop star moved to Switzerland in 1997 where he married his
: third wife Orianne Cevey, who is mother to his two sons.
: The couple announced their separation in 1999 and last year
: Collins announced the sale of his wife's mansion in the
: village of Begnins, the former residence of motor racing
: star Jackie Stewart. Collins has since moved to the nearby
: municipality of Féchy.
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: Tina Turner. The rock star has given up her US citizenship to
: become a citizen of Switzerland, having lived here for
: almost two decades
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: The King of Thailand lived in Switzerland on the shores of
: Lake Geneva from the age of six. \\----
: Lord Byron, George (1788-1824) UK
: This English poet was the main precursor to the wave of
: Romanticism in the nineteenth century. Byron loved the
: Geneva Riviera
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: Boris Becker.. German Tennis Star.
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: James Blunt. While he admits to being a “horrible cook”, it
: was his desire to start a restaurant business, coupled with
: a love of skiing, that brought the British pop star here.
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: Michael Schumacher. An unabashed lover of Switzerland's tax
: breaks for millionaires. A Formula One racing champion ..
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: Frida Lyngstad. Swedish pop group Abba’s famous dancing queen
: turned into a princess following her marriage to a German
: prince who later died. Rock band Queen owned and operated
: Mountain Recording Studios (which is still in use today) ..
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: Ingvar Kamprad. Switzerland's wealthiest resident is in fact a
: Swede. The 86-year-old Ikea founder...
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: Petula Clark. The British singer best known for her 1960s hit
: 'Downtown', settled in Geneva with her publicist husband
: Claude Wolff in 2007
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: Mary and Percy Shelley (Frankenstein)
: Lenin
: Charlie Chaplin
: Noel Coward
: James Mason
: Sir Peter Ustinov
: Richard Burton
: Audrey Hepburn
: David Bowie
: Freddie Mercury (Queen)
: Mary and Percy Shelley and Lord Byron holidayed by the lake
: and wrote ghost stories, one of which became the basis for
: the novel Frankenstein.[30] Vladimir Lenin rented a little
: "chalet" at the French bank, near Geneva.[31]
: Actor Charlie Chaplin spent his final years and died in
: Vevey (there is a memorial statue of him along the
: promenade; his home at Corsier-sur-Vevey is now a museum of
: his life and career). Actors Noël Coward, James Mason, Sir
: Peter Ustinov, Richard Burton and Audrey Hepburn all lived
: in villages on the shores of or in view of the lake. David
: Bowie moved to a chalet to the north of Lake Geneva in
: 1976, which inspired him to take up painting .
: Thank you.
