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Supermodel Sara Sampaio buys digital private island

Portuguese supermodel and Victoriaโ€™s Secret Angel, Sara Sampaio has bought herself a private island – the only problem is she canโ€™t physically step foot on it.

The digital island is in The Sandbox metaverse and cost the model 25 Ethereum, a cryptocurrency, worth about $110,000.

According to Domain, the island was sold through the website Exclusible, and was one of 25 being sold in Exclusibleโ€™s exclusive archipelago.

Professional tennis players Ana Ivanovic and Stan Wawrinka are apparently other notable non-fungible token island purchasers. 

A handful of the digital islands were also offered to social media influencers and some are supposedly close to Snoop Doggโ€™s digital pad in The Sandbox metaverse.

The rapper bought a block of land there last year and created a Snoopverse neighbourhood where he then sold blocks of digital land.

In terms of touchable bricks and mortar, the New York Post reports that Sampaio recently sold her three-bedroom East Village digs following a price drop.

She bought the home on 12th St for US$3.51 million in 2018 before listing it for $3.45 million and finally dropped her asking price to $3.35 million, after which the property sold through Nick Gavin of Compass.

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