Pursuits
Stanley Ho Pays Top Price at $417,200 Truffle Sale for Charity
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Stanley Ho, a Macau billionaire, paid the top price in an international white-truffle auction that raised a total of $417,200.
The highest bid during Saturday’s sale, held simultaneously in London, Rome and Macau, was $330,000 for two pieces of the rare tuber weighing a total 1.3 kilograms (2.87 pounds). It came in Macau on behalf of Ho, chairman of SJM Holdings Ltd., Asia’s biggest listed casino operator by sales, according to one of the organizers of the London event, Bruno Giorgi.