A great anecdote from a recent story in the Boston Globe magazine, about New England Patriots owners, Myra and Robert Kraft. Kraft has some diamond-studded Super Bowl gold rings:
As Kraft tells it, she and her husband were in St. Petersburg with Sandy Weill, then the chairman of Citigroup Inc., their ‘good friend’ the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, an oil executive, and a physician. That group, all except for Kraft, met at Konstantinovsky Palace with the Russian president, and when she next saw her husband in their hotel room, he confessed he had a problem.
"They were getting up for formal pictures, and Sandy said to Robert, ‘Why don’t you show the president your ring?’" she says. "So Robert never wears the ring, [but] sometimes, in certain instances, he’ll have it in his pocket, he’ll take it out. Putin put it on his finger, and his first comment was ‘I could kill someone with this,’ which was a little bit of an unusual comment, and then they took pictures, and Putin put it back in his pocket and walked out."
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