Billionaire trucker Lindsay Fox might have the BRW Elderly Rich Listers locked up (literally, on the high seas), but those Australians with both the cold hard cash and the youthful vitality to uproariously waste it: well, they're living it up in St Tropez celebrating the 40th birthday of Sydney FC chairman Scott Barlow.

The week-long bacchanalia of table-top dancing and jeroboams of Domaines Ott rose (no really, we're not jealous) began at L'Opera – think Saudi princes sending each other huge bottles of Dom Perignon with sparklers in them. Action man Sylvester Stallone threw his 70th birthday there last week, too. From L'Opera the crew shifted to Bagatelle Beach Club, then to Hôtel du Cap in nearby Antibes. Where else?!