Millionaire ex-garbo Ian Malouf deals in much more salubrious surrounds these days, having swapped skips for superyachts when he sold his Dial A Dump empire for a clean $578 million last year.

Now the eastern suburbs fixture is bringing his prized 52-metre yacht Mischief for summer in Sydney, where it will be available to charter through his new venture Ahoy Club. It's a steal at just $495,000 a week.

Millionaire ex-garbo Ian Malouf. Credit:Louise Kennerley

But if you want to cruise the harbour aboard Mischief on New Year's Eve, you may be out of luck. Malouf set off for New York last Wednesday to ink a deal with a prominent American businessman prepared to fork out $1 million to hire the yacht for NYE and New Year's Day.

He believes it will be the most expensive yacht charter deal in Australian history on a cost-per-hour basis. Billionaire James Packer, his older sister Gretel, Kris Jenner, P Diddy and Will Smith have all sailed aboard the superyacht in recent months.