Vita Luxury
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Calling themselves a "Destination Club 2.0," Vita Luxury would strive to reinvent the destination club model. Rather than owning any of the real estate available to members, the small club would only procure properties when members needed them, thus reducing the club's total costs. In addition, members would have access to a fleet of limos, watercraft, and private jets whenever they wished.

Members could use all of the amenities available through the club as often as they wished by paying a per unit fee for each. For example, a per night cost for using one of the club's vacation properties or a per hour fee for each hour in a private jet.

Vita Luxury would be introduced in 2008, stating that the club had been in the works for three years. Prior to Vita Luxury's launch, a similar club with much of the same executive team called Grand Legacy Club had launched. Instead of the Vita Luxury model, Grand Legacy Club had planned on owning all of the amenities available to members. When that model and club failed to materialize, it seems the Vita Luxury model and club were created.

While the club conducted its "BETA testing" throughout 2008, planning for a launch late in the year, the capital from the club's founders dried up and Vita Luxury would cease operations before ever formally entering the destination club market.

While the future of the club was sealed, the fate of one of its executives had yet to be written. Thanos Papalexis, one of Vita Luxury's primary representatives, was arrested for murder just a few short weeks following the club's closure.

According to police, Papalexis and two other men brutally murdered Charalambos Christodoulides in 2000 after Christodoulides failed to vacate a warehouse that Papalexis was attempting to sell. "It appears that the victim was condemned to die for no better reason than he was not prepared to leave his home," said Jonathan Laidlaw, Prosecutor at Papalexis's trial. "The murder was brutal. It was a terrible way for an innocent man to lose his life."

Following a three month long trial, Papalexis was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to life in prison. "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. "This was an execution carried out for financial gain. You treated Charalambos as completely expendable."

During the trial, the testimony of a Rebecca DeFalco, a Miami-based escort that Papalexis wined and dined, would play heavily in the decision. According to DeFalco, Papalexis confessed to strangling "a nobody" who "had got in the way." Also revealed during the trial was Papalexis's infidelity, paying for cosmetic surgery for several women, and hosting wild sex parties.