Fed-up with being snooped upon by hordes of tourists at her Majorcan holiday home, newly married supermodel Claudia Schiffer has persuaded Spain’s King Juan Carlos to sell her a slice of wilderness on the south west coast of the island.
Claudia, 31, who is a long-term friend of the Spanish monarch, plans to build a new pad complete with triple garage, swimming pool and fitness suite on the 150 square miles of peninsula for which she handed over £980,000. While it is being built, she and husband Matthew Vaughn – the couple were married on the 25th of last month – will be staying in the model’s existing £2 million villa overlooking the bay in the resort of Café Del Mar.
The German catwalk star has maintained a home on the island for years, but has been plagued by sightseers and fans since moving into it. The situation was apparently made worse when a nearby hotel began advertising the fact that one of its rooms offered a birds-eye view of Claudia’s garden. Two years ago, she caused controversy by erecting a fence around her property which cut off public right of way to a 17th-century monument. A local council upheld her right to privacy, however, and the fence was replaced by a high wall.
The new house in the wilderness will be the model’s seventh. In addition to Coldham Hall in Britain, she also has homes in New York, London, Germany and Monte Carlo.
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