Of all the gaudy embellishments that billionaires have commissioned for their superyachts in recent years, few have come close to the vulgarity that graces the Koru — Jeff Bezos’s new, £400 million floating pleasure palace.
On the vessel’s prow, her bare breasts thrusting out over the waves, is a carved wooden figurehead that bears a striking resemblance to the Amazon founder’s new fiancee, Lauren Sanchez.
Above the sculpture’s gravity-defying cleavage is a necklace bearing the ‘koru’, a spiral based on an unfurling fern frond: in Maori art, it’s a symbol of new life and growth. Given…