Wolfgang Flottl's Network Of Shadows

To his New York society friends, Wolfgang Fluttl is just another well-heeled up-and-comer. Born in Austria, he is married to Barbara Anne Eisenhower, the granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and attended Richard M. Nixon's funeral. He has an eight-acre spread called Castle Point in Tucker's Town, in an exclusive Bermuda billionaire's enclave where his neighbors are Ross Perot and Italian media mogul and Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi.

A former Kidder, Peabody & Co. vice-president, Fluttl, 38, drives a $229,000 Lamborghini Diabolo and motors a $700,000 speedboat named Barbara Anne of Hamilton, according to The Bermuda Sun. He is developing the tallest building in downtown Hamilton, Bermuda, in partnership with Sir John W. Swan, the British colony's Premier. Employing public-relations advisers to speed his social aspirations, Fluttl has contributed to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Ballet Theatre.