Bahamas

"Sol was also a stickler for detail, something he also hammered into his managers. Years later, his highly professional marketing executive, Howard Karawan, told this story: “We were walking around the construction site of the Royal Towers at Atlantis in the Bahamas, and I looked at a tradesman doing some plastering work some 40 feet above the Great Hall of Waters lobby. I said to Sol, ‘Nobody is going to pick up on the detail in the ceiling. Why don’t we value-engineer it out and save a few bucks?’ “Sol…"

"Solomon Kerzner was born in Durban, South Africa, on 23 August 1935. He was, however, a citizen of the world. He had homes in London and the Chiltern Hills in the UK, the south of France, New York, Johannesburg and the Bahamas, as well as his beloved Leeukoppie estate in Hout Bay, Cape Town."

"To appease the South African haters, Sol offered to introduce Ingraham to Nelson Mandela; in fact, he practically promised to see to it that Mandela would visit the Bahamas as a guest of the prime minister. That would be huge for the islands. If Mandela were to put his stamp of approval on Sol’s ownership of Paradise Island, it would surely seal the deal."