The gold-medal parties are just getting started.
Arriving by luxury boat and private jet, celebrities and filthy-rich industrialists descended on London this week, taking over the British capital with plans to party like it’s 2012.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have already touched down and strolled down the red carpet for a charity fund-raiser.
George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, David and Victoria Beckham, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Prince William and Kate Middleton are among the other A-listers expected to hit champagne-soaked parties over the next two weeks.
Even teetotaling presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will make the rounds, glad-handing bigmoney supporters, and health-conscious First Lady Michelle Obama will lead the US delegation at tonight’s Opening Ceremonies.
One of the busiest points of entry to London will be a secluded corner of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, where private planes can land and meet limos on the runway — all out of sight of the paparazzi’s prying lenses.
“It’s becoming an essential service at an airport like this,’’ Heathrow’s commercial director, John Holland-Kaye, told USA Today.
The world’s wealthiest barons — and their yachts — won’t settle for silver.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, aboard his 414-foot luxury liner, Octopus, has already pulled into Canary Wharf for the duration of the Games.
Allen’s huge floating paradise is reportedly worth a mind-blowing $200 million, with two helicopters, a 10-man submarine and a swimming pool that can turn into a dance floor on board.
Not to be outdone, fellow Microsoft founder Bill Gates will land his super yacht, Gogypus, at the Royal Docks in East London.
Russian tycoon and Chelsea soccer owner Roman Abramovich’s massive 557-foot Eclipse — with two swimming pools, 30 cabins, two helipads and even its own missile-defense system, is expected to be around too, The Daily Mail reported.
With Post Wire Services