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Recent Examples of seraglioKendall also participates in a toga party and is entertained by a provocative belly dancer in a male seraglio.—J. Hoberman, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025 Despite Miller’s visual panache — when’s the last time a seraglio was depicted on the big screen? — these anecdotes are ultimately as unsatisfying as Campion’s Dog.—Armond White, National Review, 7 Sep. 2022 The film, which was to be called In the Sultan’s Power, involved a dashing American traveler who rescues a young Frenchwoman from the seraglio of a diabolical Turkish nobleman.—Longreads, 15 May 2018
The unique cultural makeup of Cádiz—with its famous Moorish alcazar, with its echoes of Arab-Andalusian culture playing alongside Spanish Catholic aesthetics—and its quiet way of life have been a steady guide for Judeline as she’s found her artistic voice and its visual direction.
Facts about elephant seals—a bull’s responsibility to impregnate his harem of females, birthing and nursing—though presented scientifically, put the children in a state of wild glee that a thousand-year-old redwood tree or a century-old lighthouse could not induce.
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Yiyun Li,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
What about those who attended his parties and referenced his harem?
Millionaire industrialist Henry Clay Frick transformed his mansion into a boutique museum focused on Western European art.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026
After splitting with Hamm’s Coop, keeping the mansion and the two teenaged kids, her Mel Cooper is now single, having split with her famous athlete boyfriend.
There’s also a lovely main swimming pool (in addition to the private pools at some of the villas).
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Mar. 2026
Set in a secluded Catalonian villa, the irksomely stylish story centers on a rich family living in insulated excess until an outsider disrupts their precarious peace.
And the staff are available up to nine hours a day to lead on-property animal rescue adventures and oversee sand-castle building on the two private beaches.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Mar. 2026
Two dozen disciples who have gathered in this large white space within a 19th-century Scottish castle ruminate with total concentration.