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Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire Party on a Yacht in St. Tropez

The old friends hung out aboard a small luxury boat off the coast of St. Tropez on Thursday.

What’s the best way to celebrate raising $30 million for charity? For Leonardo DiCaprio and his pal Tobey Maguire , the answer is a yacht party in the south of France.

The old friends looked like they were having a blast on Thursday hanging out aboard a small luxury boat off the coast of St. Tropez, where just last night DiCaprio’s foundation raised $30 million and counting towards protecting the environment.

DiCaprio has been spending more time with friends following his split from Nina Agdal earlier this summer after a year of dating.

Maguire was also on hand last night for the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s fourth annual charity auction, where the star-studded guest list was treated to a surprise performance by Madonna and a set by Lenny Kravitz.

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Prince Albert II of Monaco , Madonna’s ex Sean Penn , Uma Thurman , Jared Leto , Cate Blanchett , Marion Cotillard, Kate Hudson , Edward Norton and Tom Hanks were among the famous guests.

The event also featured a Titanic reunion – DiCaprio posed for a selfie with Kate Winslet and Billy Zane, who played her character’s wealthy fiancé.

The auction continues online. Following last night’s preview, bidding will begin on August 10 and end on August 23. A catalogue of the items can be viewed here .

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Leonardo DiCaprio and pal Tobey Maguire spotted vacationing together on yacht in St. Tropez

Bros before boats.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire were spotted enjoying a day in the sun during their St. Tropez vacation.

The movie stars, who have been longtime friends, spent their Friday aboard a luxurious yacht as they sailed the French Riviera.

At one point, the “Titanic” star, 48, could be seen jumping off the pricey boat and into the water.

In another snap, DiCaprio and the “Spider-Man” actor, also 48, were photographed chatting with friends.

For the outing, they both opted for blue swimsuits.

Two days prior, Maguire and DiCaprio were seen arriving at the St. Tropez location for Club 55 with friends.

The “Brothers” actor was seen aboard a smaller boat with friends as they traveled to the French restaurant.

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The “Wolf of Wall Street” star kept a low profile as he wore a mask and his signature black baseball cap while arriving at the celeb hotspot.

Maguire and DiCaprio have been enjoying a fun-filled summer in Europe.

Last month, Page Six obtained exclusive photos of the pals rocking matching wolf necklaces while out in Paris.

The new bling, which is a nod to their “Wolf Pack” friend group, was on display around their necks as the actors arrived at the Hotel Plaza Athénée on June 21.

Other members of the so-called “Wolf Pack” besides DiCaprio and Maguire, include Lukas Haas, Kevin Connolly, Vincent Lareska and Richie Akiva.

Additionally, the duo were also spotted dining with model Neelam Gill at Loulou on Rue de Rivoli.

Maguire’s kids — Ruby, 16, and Otis, 14whom he shares with his ex-wife, Jennifer Meyer — and DiCaprio’s niece Normandie, 16, also tagged along for the outing.

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire Party on a Yacht in St. Tropez

What’s the best way to celebrate raising $30 million for charity? For Leonardo DiCaprio and his pal Tobey Maguire , the answer is a yacht party in the south of France.

The old friends looked like they were having a blast on Thursday hanging out aboard a small luxury boat off the coast of St. Tropez, where just last night DiCaprio’s foundation raised $30 million and counting towards protecting the environment.

DiCaprio has been spending more time with friends following his split from Nina Agdal earlier this summer after a year of dating.

Maguire was also on hand last night for the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s fourth annual charity auction, where the star-studded guest list was treated to a surprise performance by Madonna and a set by Lenny Kravitz.

Prince Albert II of Monaco , Madonna’s ex Sean Penn , Uma Thurman , Jared Leto , Cate Blanchett , Marion Cotillard, Kate Hudson , Edward Norton and Tom Hanks were among the famous guests.

The event also featured a Titanic reunion – DiCaprio posed for a selfie with Kate Winslet and Billy Zane, who played her character’s wealthy fiancé.

The auction continues online. Following last night’s preview, bidding will begin on August 10 and end on August 23. A catalogue of the items can be viewed here .

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Leonardo DiCaprio's Endless Summer

By Kenzie Bryant

I am thrilled to inform you that once again Leonardo DiCaprio and his closest friend and confidant Tobey McGuire are on a boat. They are not in St.-Tropez , nor Sardinia , nor even the Amalfi Coast. That was yesterday’s yachting. This week, they’re off the coast of Ibiza. 

The crew is different this time as well. Leo and Tobey are hanging out with Ibiza's finest: Arabella Chi, 32-year-old Love Island star and Riccardo Tisci , Burberry’s COO. Chi and DiCaprio are not dating the tabloids say; she’s instead been linked to DiCaprio’s other buddy and nightlife man about town Richie Akiva , according to the Daily Mail . The actor’s plus one was actually Mick Jagger, who joined him for lunch on Wednesday.

I know what you’re thinking. Are you going to take note of every time Leonardo DiCaprio steps dockside until the end of time? All I can say is that it’s nice to have a calling. A grounding force, something to carry you through this one wild and precious life.

And one day, won’t we—humanity—want a record of this? We’ll want to know that through all the heat and discord, somebody was pressing on, deciding to live . We’ll want to know that Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio always returned to the sea, whether it was the Mediterranean or the Caribbean, and found something there to float on. And that we always caught him if we could. 

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Leonardo DiCaprio and celebrity pal party on yacht full of women amid Gigi Hadid rumours

The Wolf of Wall Street actor Leonardo DiCaprio has been spotted enjoying a day out on a luxury boat with his pal Tobey Maguire and a group of gorgeous women

• 10:43, 25 Jul 2023

Leonardo DiCaprio has been soaking up the sun onboard a luxury yacht with his close friend Tobey Maguire and several beautiful women.

The 48-year-old Titanic star has been living it up in St Tropez, with the pals being snapped in the coastal town on Monday. Leonardo opted for a casual look, wearing a plain white T-shirt and beige shorts.

He accessorised his outfit with a black bag, beige cap, flip-flops and a silver necklace. The actor seemed to be engrossed in his phone as he walked with security.

Tobey also dressed down for the outing as he wore a black T-shirt and dark patterned shorts. He carried a pair of black sunglasses and wore a black cap.

One of the women accompanying Leonardo and Tobey was English model Neelam Gill. She looked very chic as she stepped out wearing a leopard print maxi dress.

The Vogue star carried her belongings around in a bright green bag, while also holding onto a mini orange handbag.

One person who was noticeably absent from the lavish trip was Leonardo's rumoured flame Gigi Hadid.

The rumoured couple are reportedly engaging in a "no-strings attached situationship" and are keeping things "open and fluid" in order to balance their busy work schedules.

Leonardo and Gigi sparked romance rumours back in November, when they were reportedly getting "flirty" at dinner together in New York. Neither of them has spoken out about the rumours.

Just last month, the pair were spotted at nightclub boss Richie Akiva's party in the Hamptons as they further fuelled romance rumours. However, they both arrived and left the party separately.

Since then, a source has revealed neither of them wants to settle down as they opened up about their romance.

"Leo and Gigi have a friendly, no-strings 'situationship' right now," the insider told Us Weekly . "[They] travel so often so it’s best for them to keep their relationship open and fluid. Neither one of them wants to settle down at the moment."

Sources previously told Entertainment Tonight that the Hollywood duo were "very much into each other" but were "mindful" of the model's split from baby daddy Zayn Malik.

"Gigi has been trying to keep things low-key with their relationship. They are trying to keep things private and not show too much PDA while out together," the source said.

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Leonardo DiCaprio joined by Spider-Man star as he jumps off yacht in celeb favourite St Tropez

• Jess Lester
• Published : 20:31, 23 Jul 2023
• Updated : 0:42, 24 Jul 2023

ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio goes overboard with the fun on his European summer holiday.

The Oscar-winner , 48, made a splash as he plunged off the back of a yacht in the Med.

Titanic, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Revenant star Leo was joined on the trip off the coast of Saint-Tropez, France , by pal Tobey Maguire and some bikini-clad ladies.

The long-time friends soaked up the sunshine over the weekend.

He sported blue shorts and a bit of a belly as he closed his eyes to drop into the sea.

Leonardo and Spider-Man star Tobey, 48, have been friends for more than four decades.

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Leo DiCaprio parties with Maya Jama & Neelam Gill after romance rumours

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They were in London last month, where Leo partied with Love Island host Maya Jama at Vogue’s summer party.

Leo was previously linked to model Gigi Hadid - who he enjoyed a second secret date with at the same location just weeks before. 

An insider said: “Leonardo arrived with about eight friends around 1:30am, but spent most of the night sitting in the corner with Gigi once inside.”

Leo had been spotted at exclusive restaurant Le Club 55 last week, where the Wolf of Wall Street actor’s mum joined him for dinner. 

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Earlier this month, DiCaprio was spotted partying with Maya Jama and Neelam Gill in London - after being linked to both stars.

The actor was seen out and about in the capital.

The trio rubbed shoulders with A-Listers inside Chiltern Firehouse including pop stars  Rita Ora ,  Leigh-Anne Pinnock  and  Ella Eyre , and  Katy Perry ,  Emily Ratajkowski , and Mexican actress  Eiza Gonzalez .

One video filmed inside the exclusive venue captured Maya and Leo chatting at the bar, whilst the Love Island host looked irresistible in a black velvet dress.

Her frock featured a low-cut scoop neck and was trimmed with diamantés, with Maya styling her hair in loose waves.

Neelam looked equally sensational in a sheer body stocking dress.

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Leonardo DiCaprio traveled on gas-guzzling private jets, yachts while funding climate nuisance lawsuits

Dicaprio funded climate lawsuits while on gas-guzzling trips across globe.

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Leonardo DiCaprio traveled across the world on gas-guzzling private jets and embarked on long yacht trips while his foundation quietly funded climate change lawsuits levied against Big Oil.

DiCaprio, a famous actor and climate activist, has embarked on multiple fossil fuel-powered trips over the last several years while pushing for extreme measures to combat climate change, according to multiple reports. The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, which the actor founded in the late 1990s, awarded grants to a fund that in turn backed a private law firm's efforts to hold oil companies liable for climate change.

"I'm not surprised," Steve Milloy, a former energy official on the Trump administration's transition team, told Fox News Digital. "There's this whole left-wing dark money network. That money comes from someplace and these guys — high profile, wealthy lefties — are funding it."

"There's not a single climate activist who is not a complete hypocrite about all this," Milloy added. "Everything they do is just total hypocrisy. I would say they have no self awareness, but they just don't care. All this is really meant to control us, not for them to control themselves."

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Leonardo DiCaprio speaks at the 2019 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

DiCaprio's past fuel-powered travels included six roundtrip trips on private jets over the course of just six weeks in 2014. Sony Pictures Studios arranged for DiCaprio to take a private jet from California to New York during the period between April and May 2014, according to internal Sony emails published by WikiLeaks in 2015 .

The United Nations appointed DiCaprio as a "messenger of peace" for his work on climate change in 2014. 

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In 2016, DiCaprio reportedly flew 8,000 miles via private jet from Europe to New York City to accept an award for his environmental activism. He then returned to Europe for a charity event.

That same year, DiCaprio took a private jet to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. At the summit, the WEF gave DiCaprio its Crystal Award for his "leadership in tackling the climate crisis."

Leonardo DiCaprio is pictured jet-skiing in St. Tropez on July 15. (Mega Agency) (Mega Agency)

DiCaprio has also been heavily criticized for his wide usage of private yachts . In 2014, he took a yacht owned by United Arab Emirates deputy prime minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan to the World Cup in Brazil.

In July, DiCaprio was pictured in St. Tropez on a yacht and jet-skiing with other celebrities. 

After DiCaprio criticized Brazil over its reported deforestation plans, the nation's president Jair Bolsonaro slammed the actor, pointing to his usage of private yachts . 

"You again, Leo?" Bolsonaro tweeted on July 27. "This way, you will become my best electoral cable, as we say in Brazil! I could tell you, again, to give up your yacht before lecturing the world, but I know progressives: you want to change the entire world but never yourselves, so I will let you off the hook."

Still, DiCaprio has continued to use his platform and foundation to push for a clean energy transition away from fossil fuels. After receiving the "best actor" prize at the 2016 Academy Awards, DiCaprio used his speech to urge world leaders to make aggressive actions to fight climate change.

"Climate change is real," DiCaprio remarked during the speech. "It is happening right now. It’s the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating."

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"We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people out there who would be most affected by this," he continued.

The Earth Alliance, which DiCaprio's foundation joined in 2019, didn't respond to a request for comment.

Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

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A city view of Omsk. Source: Dmitry Feoktistov

Omsk was founded in 1716 when a wooden fort was constructed to house a Cossack unit in the area to protect the expanding Russian frontier from Central Asian nomadic incursions. It served various administrative functions throughout the 1800s and became infamous as a place of exile and incarceration. The city was rundown when selected as a hub for the Trans-Siberian railway in the 1890s. Many international trade companies and foreign consulates relocated here and the remnants of their offices can still be found in the city today.

The mystery of Kolchak’s gold

Omsk became the headquarters of the anti-Bolshevik white army led by Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak in 1918. In late 1918 there was a revolt in the city initiated by a leftist faction (Socialist Revolutionary Party or SPs) with 500 rebel deaths at the hands of Cossacks and Czechoslovak soldiers, a major factor in convincing the SPs to join the Bolsheviks. There is a large Soviet-era monument to the uprising at the corner of Lenina street and Broz Tito street.  

Kolchak was entrusted with a large portion of the Tsarist’s gold reserves, yet amazingly lost much of it. Supposedly 250 million rubles were lost (about $8 million at the time). Legend has it that they were buried near the village of Taiga, yet numerous excavations have turned up nothing. The area still attracts the occasional fortune seeker.

Kolchak’s headquarters are located at what is today the  Omsk Regional Archives  at Broz Tito St., 3. Nothing shows how much times have changed as the imposing Kolchak statue that was unveiled in 2012 around the corner. The statue guards  Kolchak restaurant , a four-story culinary complex featuring a steak house, an Irish pub, a Central Asian café and an Italian eatery.  For more details on where and how to dig Kolchak's gold, see  Top Ten Mysterious Lost Treasures of Russia

Dostoevsky and the Tsar

At 1.15 million people Omsk dwarfs the region’s second largest city, Tara (population 28,000). The city is split by the River Irtysh into two sections (all places of interest are on the right bank) with downtown emanating from the River Om.

Most foreigners have heard of Omsk via writer Fyodor Dostoevsky who spent four years here as a prisoner (1849-1853). He spent most of his time in Omsk in squalor and chains and with no books besides the Bible, however, it left an indelible mark on his memory and influenced his future literary output. There is a statue of the writer in chains grasping a Bible at the corner of Partizanskaya and Spartakovskaya streets, where Dostoevsky undoubtedly stepped many times. A  museum dedicated to the author's time in Omsk  is located nearby at Dostoevskogo St. 1. The local university is also named for him.

A view of the Assumption Cathedral, Omsk. Source: Lori/Legion-Media

Tarskaya Street is one of the city’s oldest thoroughfares. It features a monument to victims of Stalinist repressions and the Tara gates, originally built in 1792 as one of the four entrances to the Omsk fort. Nearby stands the Assumption Cathedral, one of the largest churches in Siberia. Future Tsar Nicholas II laid the first stone here in 1891 when making his way back to St. Petersburg after his Eastern journey.

In Omsk you are never more than a few steps from the village, made clear when one exits the center to the north, where most houses are wooden and roads unpaved. Stroll along Bulatova and Rabinovicha streets, a well-preserved ensemble of wooden architecture.

Omsk’s cultural heritage 

The Pushkin State Library is worth a look with busts of Russian literary figures adorning the front side of the building. At the corner under the big “M” is one of several stations of the never completed Omsk metro. Construction began in 1992, but as of 2014 the project is again dormant due to financing problems.

One of Omsk’s most famous sons is Symbolist painter Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910). Vrubel ignored contemporary trends and focused on themes from fairy tales, demons and religious subjects and also designed a majolica frieze for the Metropol Hotel in Moscow. Omsk’s Fine Arts Museum is named for him and features a number of  his works .

Milhail Vrubel's painting 'Demon Seated in a Garden' (1890)

Over the years a number of tourists have tripped over the monument to Stepanych. This bust of a plumber rising from a sewer was the idea of Omsk’s former mayor after a trip to Slovakia in the 1990s. Stepanych has become one of the symbols of the city.

Omsk is a hockey town, with one of the major teams,  Avangard , in the KHL, Russia’s premiere professional league. Russian champions on several occasions, check out a match at Omsk Arena. But if you can’t catch a game there’s a large kiosk featuring the team’s merchandise at the airport.

Siberian   punk, jazz and the classics

While Omsk may not be on everyone’s radar musically, it does host a  musical theater  built just after the war. The building on 10 Let Oktyabrya Street is in the form of an enormous sloping grand piano.

A monument to Stepanych, Lenina Street, Omsk. Photo credit: RIA Novosti/Pavel Lisitsyn 

Perhaps Russia’s most famous punk band,  Grazhdanskaya oborona  (Civil Defence), was formed here in 1982. The band was active until 2008 when lead singer Yegor Letov died of heart failure at age 43. Letov is buried at the Staro-Vostochnoe cemetery. A sprawling graveyard with thousands of graves, fans should stop at the administration for help in locating his grave.

In Russia, Omsk is known among the younger, tech-savvy generation primarily because of the “Omsk bird,” also known as Winged Doom. The origin of what became one of Russia’s most ubiquitous memes comes from a painting by German artist Heiko  Müller. One day in 2009 an Internet user posted this painting with the line, “Welcome to Omsk,” at the top. Additional versions menace viewers stating, “Don't try to leave Omsk,” and “Omsk is closer than you think.” Like many popular memes on the Internet, this one went viral and has become something like an unofficial symbol of the city.

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The staggering 387-foot-long vessel was seen floating at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after arriving at its berth earlier this week, The Sun reported Thursday.

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There also appears to be a helipad perfect for whenever the Facebook co-founder wants to travel to his vessel by air.

The Feadship-built yacht, built in 2022, can comfortably fit 24 guests aboard, requires a crew of 48, and is said to cost $30 million a year for upkeep and usage, according to Superyachtfan.com .

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The tech titan was spotted touring the Russian-commissioned megayacht in early March, though the impressive boat didn’t arrive stateside until this week due to sanctions, according to The Sun.

The website reported that Zuckerberg purchased the pricey yacht – along with its own $30 million partner boat — most likely as an early 40th birthday present to himself.

The boat reportedly traveled to Florida after being granted special permission to be imported just weeks ahead of Zuckerberg’s birthday on May 14.

Zuckerberg’s yacht is just 30 feet shorter than the length of fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos’ 417-foot megayacht Koru, which the Amazon boss snagged for a whopping $500 million.

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