Even among the property speculators of questionable scruples — and billionaires with next to none — that call Monaco home, Patrice Pastor stood out.
A little over three years ago, an adviser to Prince Albert, who rules over the principality, offered an unvarnished view of the developer, giving him a nickname that has stuck ever since. “That octopus Pastor is everywhere,” wrote Nicolas Saussier in an e-mail, according to Le Monde. “He has gotten his hooks into Monaco. He has gone mad, he has no limits.”
