Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, bought the most expensive property ever sold in Los Angeles, California.
The Amazon CEO paid $ 165 million for the Warner Estates mansion, a villa designed in 1930 as the residence of the first president of Warner Bros. studios, Jack Warner. This is how the mansion looks from above.
The residence has an area of 13 thousand square meters.
It is a colonial-style residence. It has a tennis court, swimming pool and gardens in its 13 thousand square meters. Also, it has its own nine-hole golf course, according to the American media The Hollywood Reporter
Bezos would have done the business directly with media mogul David Geffen, former owner of the mansion, about which there were already rumors that he would soon leave the market.
The mansion, located in the Beverly Hills sector, although it is the most expensive property Bezos has bought, is not the only one it has acquired in recent days.
According The Wall Street Journal, His company, Bezos Expeditions, paid $ 90 million for land that was owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Geffen, former owner of the mansion, bought it in 1990 for $ 47.5 million and broke a record at the time.
The former most expensive residence in Los Angeles is located in Bel Air, known as Villa Chartwell and was bought by Lachlan Murdoch, president of “Fox”, for about $ 150 million.
Bezos’ new house has appeared in reports from renowned architecture magazines, such as Architectural Digest, as an example of colonial-inspired mansion design.
The magazine defines the mansion as “the archetypal estate of a tycoon”, because it also has two guest houses, nursery and three greenhouses.
According to The Wall Street Journal, no real estate agents or intermediaries have intervened in the transaction.
Forbes estimates that Bezos has a fortune of $ 132,000 million.
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