{"id":2311,"date":"2025-07-18T05:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2311\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:31:09","slug":"thieves-break-into-laurence-escalantes-mykonos-villa-and-steal-designer-watches-clothing-and-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/2311\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves break into Laurence Escalante\u2019s Mykonos villa and steal designer watches, clothing and cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Perth billionaire Laurence Escalante\u2019s lavish European holiday has been dampened after reports thieves broke into his Mykonos villa and stole a cache of luxury items.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The thugs broke into his mansion during his first night on the Greek island and stole a collection of designer watches, clothing and cash, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">According to reports, the 42-year-old was also seen donning a $1 million Richard Mille x Pharrell watch while partying at Scorpios Beach Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Mr Escalante has posted several videos to his Instagram of he and his friends partying in the French Riviera and Greek Islands on a luxury mega yacht.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The father-of-four is the founder of Virtual Gaming Worlds, an online casino company worth more than $6 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">His majority stake in the company has seen his net worth rise to $4.37b.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI\u2019m just a kid from Perth with immigrant parents who grew up, had an idea, invented something and kept trying,\u201d he told The Australian earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThis is my fourth or fifth business, I\u2019m just like a lot of other people, having a crack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perth billionaire Laurence Escalante\u2019s lavish European holiday has been dampened after reports thieves broke into his Mykonos villa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,48,44],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-crime","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}