Seizing a $300 million superyacht makes a superb press release. Keeping it is a different job entirely. Four years after Western governments began freezing the assets of sanctioned Russians, most of the trophies are still sitting exactly where they were caught, and somebody has to pay the electricity bill every month. Forbes put the running total for the seized fleet at around $390 million in July 2026. Meanwhile an older class of luxury has been rotting for decades with no court order involved at all: a 105 storey hotel that never took a guest, a Gilded Age palace with 110 rooms and no heat, superjumbos being taken apart in a Spanish field, Ferraris vanishing under dust in Dubai car parks. Here are 28 of them, grouped by what they actually are, with what each one looks like today and the date that status was checked. A few have finally been sold. Most are simply still sitting there.
Amadea, the 106 Metre Trophy America Paid $32 Million to Babysit
The FBI took Amadea in Fiji in May 2022 and had her sailed to San Diego, where she sat under guard for three years. American taxpayers covered the bill, roughly $32 million, running at close to $1 million a month for crew, dock and systems. In March 2025 Judge Dale Ho found the yacht was beneficially owned by sanctioned billionaire Suleiman Kerimov and rejected Eduard Khudainatov’s competing claim, describing him as a straw owner. A sealed bid auction closed on 10 September 2025, with an $11.6 million deposit required simply to enter. The US Marshals Service never confirmed the winning bid, but CNBC reported in August 2026 that the 106 metre Lurssen went for about $187 million to a Dubai buyer, and registration papers a month after the sale listed a British Virgin Islands company with a Dubai address. She left California in November 2025.