Question: The Xanadu Beach Resort & Marina, also known as the Xanadu Princess Resort & Marina, is a resort and marina on the island of Grand Bahama in the Bahamas, built in 1968, the resort was purchased by who, which was an American businessman, investor, pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world?
Context: Marina Kamen (aka MARINA), is a Director/Producer/Casting Director/Vocalist/Choreographer & Musician best known for her music in the advertising industry & fitness/health/dance music communities and has a large online catalogue of workout music, treadmill workouts and audio workouts including 50 albums, 450 Original Songs and 1,200 Online Musical Audio Programs.  Marina's EBook entitled "I'mSteppin' Out!" …confessions of a Food-a-Holic has sold around the globe for the past 15 years and is available on Iamplifi, Audible and on Amazon.  Kamen won the 2005 People's Choice Award in Podcasting .  MARINA's High-nrg Fitness Brand includes Radio and Television Broadcasts, Music, albums, and a Live Show currently playing in NYC called MARINA's High-nrg Fitness LIVE! …an Interactive Musical Theatre WORKOUT Experience.  MARINA's lifelong work merging the worlds of vocalisation and dance has brought her to work with Celebrity artists including Patti Labelle, Carnie Wilson, James Earl Jones, Mandy Patinkin, Gloria Gaynor, Britney Spears, Liza Minnelli and countless others.  In 1987, Kamen and her husband, Roy Kamen, opened Kamen Entertainment Group, Inc.  Kamen's credits in Radio and television advertising have included thousands of campaigns working for Starburst, PopTarts, Mercedes, Exxon Mobile, CocaCola, Dairy Queen, and Febreeze in the 1990s, in 2004, Marina Diretcted, Produced, Cast & Choreographed Britney Spears' Twister Dance Rave Global Television Campaign for Hasbro.  Kamen also Cast, Directed,Choreographed & Produced Television spots for Jenga Tetris & Bop It.  Kamen performs a series of live performance concerts around the country.  In the late 90s, it seemed impossible because she had three young children and was over 215 pounds.  Nonetheless, Kamen started to write and produce music aimed at the dance market.  High energy shows won awards, such as her "Silent Night" performance at Webster Hall in New York City.  Kamen taught aerobics classes in the 70's and 80's, and through her performances she began using dance music to drive her workout routines.  By singing, dancing, and eating well-portioned meals, she lost over 100 pounds.  Kamen released her debut album, "Um-Lotty-Da" in 1997.  Kamen quickly earned a reputation in the New York City club scene.  Her albums and performances garnered the attention of the Dance Organization of America.  This committee steered Kamen towards positions as a director and choreographer for Atlantic Records, Columbia Records, The Naras Foundation which Hosts The Grammy Awards.By the year 2000, Kamen had combined her previous experiences and started to sell her fitness music within the fitness community.  With her innovative approach and inspirational message, Kamen became a well-known persona in the world of Musical Fitness.  Kamen has produced material and live presentations for clients including QVC/Direct, Dynamix, Equinox Gyms, Jazzercise, Strive Enterprise with Bill Kazmier (ESPN), and Jackie Chan's CableFlex.  She has appeared on British TV on "Reborn in the USA," produced and televised from New York City by the producers of "American Idol."  Kamen has been covered in the NY Times, Daily News and Family Circle Magazine.  She can be seen on programing from The Discovery Health Network, PBS and Nickelodeon (The N), ShopNBC, The Tyra Banks Show & ABC NEWS.  Marina is also Hosting a Web Broadcast show entitled "MARINA's High-nrg Fitness Musical Health Talk" at http://www.musicalhealthtalk.com.  Ms. Kamen attended The Manhattan School of Music & Interlochen Arts Academy majoring in voice, violin, and composition.  Marina trained in dance with The American Ballet Theatre, Luigi & Frank Hatchett.  Marina also thanks her longtime friend in dance Francis Roach for his openness and dance talent over the years in addition to carrying out the teachings of dance Icon Luigi.  His work has helped to train thousands of dancers around the world. Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, and the closest major island to the United States, lying 86 km off of Palm Beach, Florida.  It is the fourth largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays.  The island is approximately 153 km long west to east and 24 km at its widest point north to south.  Administratively, the island consists of the Freeport Bonded Area and the districts of East Grand Bahama and West Grand Bahama. West Grand Bahama is one of 31 districts of The Bahamas.  The district covers the entire western portion of Grand Bahama island, excluding the city of Freeport, which forms its own district.  Communities within West Grand Bahama include the settlements of Mack Town, Hunters, Lewis Yard, Pinder's Point, Eight Mile Rock, Hepburn Town, Bartlett Hill, Hanna Hill, Pine Dale, Martin Town, Russell Town, Jones Town, Sea Grape, Holmes Rock, Bootle Bay and the westernmost settlement of West End. Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American businessman, investor, pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.  He first made a name for himself as a film producer, and then became an influential figure in the aviation industry.  Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by a worsening obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and chronic pain from a plane crash. The Xanadu Beach Resort & Marina, also known as the Xanadu Princess Resort & Marina, is a resort and marina on the island of Grand Bahama in the Bahamas.  Built in 1968, the resort was purchased by Howard Hughes in 1972 and was for several years the most celebrated resort in the Caribbean and served as a hideaway for the Hollywood jet set of the era.  The resort comprises 20 acre of beachfront, 215 rooms and an 80 slip marina on the southern coast of Grand Bahama. West End (also referred to as "Settlement Point") is the oldest town and westernmost settlement on the Bahamian island of Grand Bahama.  It is the current capital of Grand Bahama, contrary to the popular belief that Freeport City is the capital of the island.  It is also the third largest settlement in the Bahamas.  There is one airport in West End, West End Airport, which serves mostly private aircraft.  Since the 1950s, the settlement of West End has fluctuated with the rise and fall of the adjacent resort developments. The Grand Bahama Port Authority ( GBPA or "Port Authority") is a privately held corporation that also acts as the municipal authority for Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, The Bahamas.  The GBPA was created by the Hawksbill Creek Agreement. Wallace Groves (c. 1902–30 January 1988) was a prominent financier, who, after his release from federal prison in 1944, moved to the Bahamas and there founded and operated the free trade zone, resort, and casino development Freeport on Grand Bahama Island.  Investigators of U.S. organized crime associate him with the Meyer Lansky syndicate operating offshore casinos from Miami Beach.  These ties notwithstanding, he is credited with being a driving force in the development of the modern Bahamian economy. Brightwood Beach Cottage is an historic octagonal building on the southern shore of Lake Ripley in Litchfield, Minnesota that once was a part of the Brightwood Beach Resort of the late nineteenth century.  The resort opened in 1889, and it offered cultural amenities such as concerts, classes in fine arts, and other live entertainment.  Other summer activities included dancing, ball games, and canoeing and steamboat excursions on Lake Ripley.  The Minnesota Editorial Association, in a report at the time, called Brightwood “the most lovely spot in Minnesota” and a “gem of a lake with pebbly shores and blue as the vaults of heaven.”  Thousands of people visited the resort, many of them wealthy individuals pictured in suits and fancy dresses, but the resort was not financially successful.  In 1893, the resort was forced to close, a victim of the Panic of 1893 and competition from resorts to the north that became accessible by railroad. Plaza Beach Resort Bonaire is the largest diving resort in the southern Caribbean Island of Bonaire, located at 80 Julio A. Abraham Boulevard, south of Kralendijk, just north of Flamingo International Airport (about 0.5 mi away).  It is operated by the Van der Valk family of hoteliers and is also known as the Plaza Resort Van der Valk.  American divers have reportedly voted it one of the top 10 dive resorts in the world.  The resort, which claims to be five-star, although this is disputed by several independent publications, is situated on a peninsula, at the mouth of a man-made lagoon with turquoise blue waters.  Plaza Beach Resort Bonaire Its beach measures 500 m long and 50 - deep and is a notable scuba diving location, known as "Toucan Diving".
Answer: Howard Hughes