It also offered lavish help to Myanmar in 2008, when its relations with the junta then in power were frosty.
However, Ms. Paulus's decision to forgo a lavish set helped keep costs low.
"Justin," Hilton said recently on one of the many videos he posts, "get your act together, or you may be shaving your head real soon!" A passionate music fan whose lavish attention helped put singers Adele, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry on the map, Hilton's biggest flop has been the music deal he signed with Warner Bros. Records for his own label in 2009.
The Granthams paid a visit to Shrimpy Flintshire's handsome Scottish pile while the bulk of the servants remained at Downton, thus providing a double helping of lavish country estate photography for people who like that kind of thing.
Henry continued to invest in Westminster Abbey, which became a replacement for the Angevin mausoleum at Fontevraud Abbey, and in 1269 he oversaw a grand ceremony to rebury Edward the Confessor in a lavish new shrine, personally helping to carry the body to its new resting place.
"For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
Before City became a usurper, Blackburn was the English team to shake up the big four — Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool — when a self-made steel magnate, Jack Walker, lavished his fortune on helping Blackburn win the Premier League in 1994-5.
In the US McDonald's is being sued by obese people who claim its products, supported by a lavish marketing campaign, helped make them fat.
Lydia Staiano, a spokeswoman for the East Quogue Civic Association, agreed that the owners of lavish summer homes help offset the taxes of year-round homeowners like her who are of more modest means.
It was also the setting for the tycoon's marriage to Jackie Kennedy in 1968 and the location of lavish parties that helped give birth to the concept of celebrity.
