Vita Luxury
Notes From The Club

Using the tagline "A Life Beyond Repair," Vita Luxury would give members access to a collection of luxury items. Like more traditional destination clubs, members would be able to stay at luxurious properties, but would also have luxury watercraft and exotic cars, professionally trained butlers, maids, drivers and chefs.

The club's business model was built around the destination club never owning any of the assets available to members, but rather procuring these amenities through partnerships with various providers.

In 2008, Vita Luxury would announce their pending launch. "The VITA Luxury Destination Club that has been planned for over 3 years has today confirmed that its planned launch for 2008 remains as scheduled for late 2008," the club would announce in July. After undertaking a "BETA" test of their offering, Vita would begin to ramp up for their late 2008 launch only to cease operations. According to our contacts at the club, Vita and the club's investors burned through their operating capital prior to their launch and were forced to cease operations.

Grand Legacy Club, a similar venture by many of the same executives at Vita Luxury, suffered a similar fate prior to the advent of Vita. While the two clubs did have many similarities, while Vita Luxury planned on not owning any of the club's assets, Grand Legacy Club did plan on owning all of the assets through the club.

Just weeks after the news broke that Vita Luxury had ceased operations, Thanos Papalexis, a driving force behind both Vita and Grand Legacy Club, was arrested for murder. According to police, Papalexis and two men killed a man named Charalambos Christodoulides in London in 2000. Allegedly, Papalexis killed Christodoulides after he refused to leave the flat he was living in, part of a warehouse that Papalexis was attempting to sell.

"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 revealed.

During the trial, Papalexis was described as a "classic psycho" and his relations with a Miami-based escort would play a critical role in his guilty conviction. According to escort Rebecca DeFalco, Papalexis would confess that he strangled "a nobody" who "had got in the way." Adding that he later said "Yes, I strangled someone. There were two people with me. This man was giving me problems. It happened in London."

Papalexis was sentenced to life in prison following the trial. "You are a totally amoral person in the sense that you do not think twice in doing or saying anything which helps you achieve your own ends," said Judge Jeremy Roberts, according to the Guardian. "This was an execution carried out for financial gain. You treated Charalambos as completely expendable"

Due to their very short time in the destination club industry, no notes from the club are currently available, but if you would like to learn more about Vita Luxury, please access the club's quick links found to the right.