Tilman Fertitta, 69, the great-grandson of Sicilian immigrants and a man worth $11.1 billion, ranks among the wealthiest ambassadors the United States has ever sent abroad. Now serving as US ambassador to Italy, he has become the talk of Italian political circles with what observers are calling "yacht diplomacy."
According to the Washington Post on Sunday (local time), while relations between President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have grown strained, the Texas billionaire has been sailing his massive yacht Boardwalk through the Gulf of Naples, Venice and the southern port city of Bari, working the Italian political establishment along the way.
