It may appear to be above the cut, but a barber in Britain gets 15,000 pounds for trimming Sultan of Brunei''s hair. Ken Modestou, who runs a barber''s at the Dorchester hotel in central London, was recently flown over to Brunei and given a self-contained suite on Singapore Airlines flight for the 7,000-mile trip to the Sultanate.
The cabin, which costs just under 11,000 pounds, was deemed necessary as the 63-year-old Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah wanted to ensure his barber was isolated from possible swine flu among other passengers, ''The Sunday Times'' reported. While Modestou''s clients at the Dorchester pay 30 pounds for a haircut, the Sultan, whose fortune is estimated at 12 billion pounds, gives him several thousand dollars in cash each time, apart from the flight and hotel accommodation for three to four nights.
George Kadi, who works with Modestou was quoted as telling a client: "Ken has been cutting the hair of the Sultan for 16 years. "He goes regularly, sometimes every three or four weeks.
The Sultan flies him first-class at a cost of about 9,000 pounds. Everything is paid for, hotel, luxury food.
It is a case of ''just keep signing, that''s all''." Kadi said that after trimming the Sultan''s hair, Modestou receives a "thick envelope" full of dollars
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