VIP Report

Cuba’s best-known nightclub, Tropicana, launched at Villa Mina in the Marianao area of Havana, has celebrated its 70th birthday. Apart from Mondays, nightly dinner shows, in the open-air Salon Bajo Las Estrellas, start at 9 o’clock and the director today is David Varela.

Roman Abramovich and Daria Zhukova – mother of of his latest child, Aaron – threw a $4 million New Year’s Eve party at their new hang-out on St Barth’s. They bought the $90 million, 70-acre Grosvenor Bay estate from Jeet Singh, co-founder of Art Technology Group Inc (ATG), the Cambridge MA maker of software used by Tommy Hilfiger and other retailers.

Wallpaper magazine’s 2010 annual design awards, announced January 14th, 2010, gave best Life-enhancer to New York City’s High Line park on the site of a former elevated rail track. Masterplanners were James Corner Field Operations and Diler Scofidio + Renfro.

Australians Trish Richards and her cousin Neil Perry, and American software guru David Doyle, know they have a success on their hands. Read about their latest Sydney restaurant opening HYPERLINK TO TC.

The Missoni clan turned out in force, with executives of Rezidor Hotel Group, to announce the forthcoming Missoni Hotel Cape Town. Also there were television stars Kelly Parkhurst, far left, and, far right, Liezel van der Westhuizen.

New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch is new Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. MOCA, as it is often called, was rescued late 2008 by a $30 million investment from then-Chairman, Eli Broad, a long-time client of Jeffrey Deitch.