The Surprising Lives of Billionaires

Finding out how satisfying is it to live in six international mansions all at the same time and how to decorate these homes when money is truly no object.

A look at what a billion dollars can buy, including boats with glass-bottomed swimming pools, swiveling king-size beds and gold bath taps costing over $30,000 each.

A look at the new 21st-century staff, which includes private pilots, publicists, art-consultants, personal assistants and super-tutors, all of whom cater to their every whim all while paid well into six figures themselves.

A world of rock crystal baths costing millions and that most regal of domestic appliances, the 24-carat, gold-plated vacuum cleaner retailing at just $1 million; for many free-spending billionaires, life has become a gold-plated trolley dash.

The increasingly extreme security measures the super-rich are now taking to protect themselves, including the upgraded panic room.

A look at the realities of love, romance, marriage and divorce for the super-rich; a world of introduction agencies that charge $4000 for a date and security consultants who scope out prospective spouses.