![In 1950, Farouk's fortune was estimated to be about £50 million or about US$140 million, making him into one of the world's richest men, and a billionaire many times over in today's money. [197] Farouk's wealth and his lifestyle made the centre of media attention all over the world. [197] In August 1950, Farouk visited France to stay at the casino at Deauville for his bachelor party, leaving Alexandria on his yacht Fakr el Bihar with an Egyptian destroyer as an escort and landed at Marseilles. [9] Farouk together his entourage consisting of his "kitchen cabinet", 30 Albanian bodyguards, assorted Egyptian secretaries and doctors, Sudanese food tasters and various other followers traveled across the French countryside in a column of 7 Cadillacs surrounded by motorcycle- riding bodyguards and an airplane flying overhead with orders to land in case Farouk wanted to fly instead. [9] Upon the king arriving in Deauville, a media circus began as hundreds of journalists from Europe and North America descended on Deauville to report on Farouk's every doing as he stayed at the Hotel du Golf with his entourage occupying 25 rooms.[198] Journalists watched on as the corpulent king gorged himself on food, eating in one single meal dishes of sole à crème, côte de veau à la crème, framboises à la crème, and champignons à la crème, each dish tasted in advance by Farouk's Sudanese food tasters.[199] At his first night at the casino in Deauville, Farouk won 20 million francs (about $57,000 U.S. dollars) FAROUKADO Chick-filt AVOCADO](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/878/078/18a.png "Bro had small d--- energy, literally, and several of his mistresses complained about this. | History Memes")
Bro had small d--- energy, literally, and several of his mistresses complained about this. | History Memes
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