STATUS: Chairman, CEO, IAC/InterActive
WHERE: Off San Tropez
SAILING WITH: Wife Diane von Furstenburg
THE BOAT: The 300-foot-long Eos. “I promise you, it’s not about size,” he's said. “I mean, it’s not for me. It wasn’t like I said ‘I want the biggest boat.’ And I’m sure that at some point fairly soon I won’t have the biggest boat … Once you're in boats, you either go bankrupt or you keep going.”
STATUS: Unemployed, philanthropist
WHERE: Italy
SAILING WITH: The Daily Beast's Tina Brown
THE BOAT: The Rising Son, which Geffen co-owns with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. One of the largest privately owned boats in the world, it's 453 feet long and includes a basketball court that can also serve as a helipad.
STATUS: Financier, philanthropist
WHERE: Capri
SAILING WITH: Ron Meyer, president, COO, Universal Studios
THE BOAT: The 187-foot Ultima III, which has reportedly entertained such guests as Harvey Weinstein and Jon Bon Jovi.
STATUS: CEO, Electus
WHERE: Capri, Sardinia
SAILING WITH: Ryan Seacrest (again) and "our ladies" Jen Cuoco, Julianne Hough
STATUS: Chairman, Microsoft
WHERE: Off Costa Rica
SAILING WITH: Hush-hush
THE BOAT: Likely his Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Octopus. The boat is frequently seen en route and at ports in Barbados, Jamaica, Florida, Greece, Croatia, Norway and Tahiti. Said to have cost Paul Allen over $200 million, it has two helipads, a pool on one of the upper decks, a basketball court and two submarines. Side hatches at the water line form a dock for jet skis.
STATUS: Exec producer, "Entourage"
WHERE: Off St. Tropez
SAILING WITH: Family dog
STATUS: Chairman, CEO, Mandalay Entertainment
WHERE: Off Mykonos
SAILING WITH: Family. No moguls allowed
THE BOAT: Not sure. But back in the '80s, Guber bought an 80-foot-steel ketch called The Oz. Angelo Donghia, the designer of the S.S. France, decorated the interior. Picasso ceramics adorend the dining area and Hurell portaits hung in the galley. The TV series "OceanQuest" was filmed aboard it.
It’s August. Hollywood has wilted. The box office is about to flat-line.
Time to get out of town! But if you wanna be a mogul, you better be on a boat.
Yes, it’s TheWrap’s second annual "Moguls on a Boat" feature, tracking the movements of your favorite media and movie honchos. (See where they were last summer.)
They travel in clusters, on great big floating luxury suites where they still get the internet, check the grosses and gossip about Vivi Nevo.
And thank Gawd for Steve Jobs, who has brought us all the iPad, preventing your favorite moguls from being weighed down with all manner of cumbersome scripts or, as in the past, actual books. Now, after Cookie finishes breakfast, everyone can hunker down starboard with "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest."
Kindles, anyone? (‘It’s a Frisbee at this point," says one vacationing mogul. Ouch!!)
So where are the moguls' boats this summer? Click through and see! And if you're not on the list, send your whereabouts to info@thewrap.com.
(Musical treat: Andy Samberg and T-Pain's "I'm on a Boat.")
