Rising Sun (yacht)


Rising Sun is a motor yacht designed by Jon Bannenberg, and built in 2004 by Germany's Lürssen for Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, and last refitted in 2007. Rising Sun has been owned since 2010 by David Geffen, who had bought a half share of the yacht initially in late 2006. It reportedly cost over US$200 million to build.
W magazine listed some of the guests on Geffen's yacht: Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Springsteen, Gayle King, Julia Roberts, Maria Shriver, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, JJ Abrams, Martin Short, Diane Sawyer, Diane von Furstenberg, Karlie Kloss, Alexis Rose, Jen Meyer, Josh Kushner, and Sir Paul McCartney.
Geffen and his crew of 45 self-isolated in the Grenadines on Rising Sun during the COVID-19 pandemic.