Ali Hewson those who have stayed at the guest house there. With U2 bandmate The Edge, the couple co-own a 20-room villa in Èze in the Alpes-Maritimes in the south of France, where Bono and Hewson often mix with top celebrities. Hewson in particular has been friendly with several supermodels, which she uses to her advantage when booking charity events. Bono and Hewson also own a $14.5 million penthouse apartment at The San Remo on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, which they purchased from Steve Jobs. By 2011, the couple's fortune was placed at €572 million. While her husband has provoked
David Hewson wrote prose adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays "Macbeth" (released 2011) and "Hamlet" (released 2014) exclusively for Audible.com, and alone he wrote an adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet", again exclusively for Audible. The three novels were narrated by Alan Cumming and Richard Armitage (who narrated both "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet"), respectively. Hewson left school at 17 and joined a local newspaper, the Scarborough Evening News, in the north of England. He was later a news, business and foreign reporter for "The Times", and features editor of "The Independent" when it was launched in 1986. He served as a board member