Luxury-goods company LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton's Bernard Arnault sold his private jet to stop Twitter accounts from tracking his travels.
What Happened: Fed up with Twitterverse tracking Arnault's every move via his private plane, the world's second-richest person on Monday on French radio station Radio Classique said LVMH sold its private jet, reported Bloomberg.
"Indeed, with all these stories, the group had a plane and we sold it," Arnault said on the LVMH-owned radio station. "The result now is that no one can see where I go because I rent planes when I use private planes," he added.
This comes after Arnault's private jet became a hot subject in France over the summer, with many lawmakers proposing to ban or tax privately-owned planes.
"It's time to ban private jets," Julien Bayou, the National Secretary of the Greens, said in August, reported Financial Times. "It's the measure that would penalize the smallest number of people for the biggest and most immediate impact in...
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