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Belmondo’s Riva goes ballistic
A decent 8m (26ft) twin-engined Riva Aquarama, the ultimate totem of ‘La Dolce Vita’, would set you back £300,000+, so why would someone splash not much less and pay a world-record price for a smaller single-engined Riva Florida? Perhaps this will explain.
In 1964, when actor Jean-Paul Belmondo was riding after his wife, not so good. The pair, who’d been married for 12 years, separated the following year.
