The richest man in the world had to find a home that lived up to his title. According to information from several American media including the Wall street journal, Jeff Bezos offered a luxurious home in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, estimated at $ 165 million. The boss of Amazon breaks here yet another record: that of the most expensive house ever bought in Los Angeles and its surroundings.
This 1254 m² home belonged to a certain David Geffen, an illustrious American music producer. It has been several weeks since the rumor said that Jeff Bezos was looking to buy in the area, with a budget exceeding $ 100 million. It is now done. This mansion “Georgian style“was built at the request of Jack Warner (the founder of Warner Bros) in the 1930s.
Outside, the house has several terraces and gardens, a nursery and three additional houses to house staff. There are also two mansions to accommodate potential guests, a tennis court, a swimming pool and a nine-hole golf course. We owe the interior architecture to William Haines, who designed a grand entrance with two doors, laid parquet floors and added a corbelled staircase.
Since the previous owner, major work has been done because David Geffen bought this house for $ 47.5 million at the time. The decorator Rose Tarlow had redone all the interior decoration before the sale of the manor. In his spending madness, Jeff Bezos also spent an additional $ 90 million for a second home around Los Angeles, that of Microsoft founder Paul Allen, whom he “will use for business purposes for Amazon“.
TMZ.com also specifies that no real estate agent was solicited for the sale of the house at 165 million dollars. Jeff Bezos thus escapes agency fees, and all the professionals in Los Angeles bite their fingers to have missed out on what could have brought them close to $ 8 million. As a reminder, the fortune of the founder of Amazon is estimated at $ 131 billion.
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