Billionaire chronicles: Toto’s Kingdom episode 2(Nairaland edit)

Moneymaker Name: Salvatore “Toto” Bergamo
Age: 42 years
Nationality: Italian (half Greek by maternal descent)
Industry: Narcotics, fashion, hospitality and entertainment
Net worth: $16.8 billion
Chronicle:

Toto Bergamo employed a half dozen female and another half dozen male staff in his caffè da Toto as stool pigeons whose only job was to interact with customers usually shoppers and fashionistas who thronged the mall in an endless drove and pick the most useful bits of gossip off them. The pigeon that brought Toto the most valuable information every week got a tidy bonus, so that his pigeons got very good at sifting through the dross and getting down to the gold quickly. From the information, Toto gleaned from his pigeons, he learnt a lot about the secret and not-so-secret happenings within Milan’s fashion universe. He had information on both the saintly and devilish alike, so that he could plot his own moves with a little more prescience than his would-be industry competitors. A year after arriving Milan and eight months after establishing caffè da Toto, Signore Bergamo launched his own fashion brand name- The House of Bergamo featuring a prêt-à-porter label: Jinx by Bergamo and a bespoke line: Suave by Bergamo. Every province of the world has its governing forces, the city of Milan was no different and those that were of Milan embraced this young adventurer named Salvatore Bergamo. The house of Bergamo prospered beyond Toto’s dreams. They were tagged by the fashion world as the flagship of a new generation of upscale designers who understood the meaning of the rather surreal phrase: “affordable luxury”. The House of Bergamo’s premier store was a million-dollar affair complete with sublime aesthetics exceptionally primed for the experiential and even by Toto Bergamo’s own high standards, he outdid himself this time. He had told the stores interior design team that the effect he sought to create was one that would make visitors to the store “leave the place bearing new dreams”, thus no expense was spared to achieve the aura of the incomparable.

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