Mikhail Prokhorov
Their check included $825 for three orders of truffle tagliolini; $600 for four orders of truffle carpaccio; $210 for three orders of veal chops with mushrooms; and $72 for six large waters. Yes, $72 for six large waters. Prokhorov, with an estimated fortune of $9.5 billion, reached a tentative agreement with current Nets owner and developer Bruce Ratner last month to pay $200 million up front and an unspecified amount of future funding to acquire an 80 percent stake in the Nets and a 45 percent share of the $800 million Barclays Center project in Brooklyn.
Nello Balan, owner of the restaurant, told the Post, “[Prokhorov] said that as of January he would own the Nets, and is looking forward to being a very big part of New York." Now if Prokhorov doesn’t have a problem splurging in a $15 bowl of chicken soup, just imagine how much the burgers at the Barclays Center could run you, maybe even more than a hot chocolate in the Bronx.





$19,000 to him is like $1.90 to any normal person. Multi billionaires should be required by law to spend this kind of money every day, sort of like that movie with Richard Pryor in it.
I remember when Bill Gates spent 90 million on his house, based on his net worth at the time it was the equilavent of US median worker spending $5 on their house.
I thought Jay-Z owned the Nets? Could be wrong.
Note to Ratner: if you want top dollar for your shitty team, just roll them in truffles.