Vita Luxury
Annual Dues

A membership club based out of Southbeach, Vita Luxury would in effect be an outgrowth of Grand Legacy Club, another pseudo-destination club that had recently ceased operations prior to the Vita Luxury launch.

While Grand Legacy planned to own all of the real estate assets available to members, Vita Luxury planned to own none of them, instead leasing the residences, boats, private jets, and other amenities available to members.

Marketed as "A Life Beyond Compare," Vita Luxury would claim that the club had "been planned for over three years" and would launch officially late in 2008 after beta testing. The young club would pursue new members but never did formally launch.

As such, no information regarding the club's annual dues are available. According to the introductory press release, "Membership in Vita is a low capital outlay membership model allowing those who enjoy five star hotels, private aviation and boating to utilise these typically capital intensive facilities in a format that allows for savings of up to 80% of traditional costs."

This types of memberships have been seen in the destination club industry before, typically with a membership deposit that is paid to receive discounts through the club's partnership network.

Vita Luxury would quietly enter the destination club industry and exit it just as quietly, likely with just a small base of members close to the club's executive team, namely the club's primary representative, Thanos Papalexis.

Also attached to Grand Legacy Club, Papalexis would be accused of fraud, unethical business practices, and ultimately murder. In 2000, when Papalexis was still in the United Kingdom, a man named Charalambos Christodoulides was murdered in a warehouse district in London. Christodoulides was living in a small flat in a warehouse that Papalexis was trying to sell. Police would believe that Papalexis and two other men viciously killed Christodoulides to expedite the sale.

"Papalexis' connection to the murder is documented with phone records, legal documents and forensic evidence. Some forensic evidence removed from the crime scene includes materials containing both Papalexis' fingerprints and the victim's blood," court documents stated.

In September of 2009, Papalexis was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to life in prison. "Born with all the advantages of wealth, he has led a life based not only on deceit, false promises and failure," said prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw. "But at times on complete fantasy."