Posted on 01/24/2015 10:31:12 PM PST by grundle
Jeff Greene is a billionaire who made most of his fortune shorting subprime mortgages ahead of the last recession. Greene took a private jet to this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, along with his wife, children and two nannies, and then told Bloomberg that "America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence. We need to reinvent our whole system of life."
Green owns a $195-million palace in Beverly Hills with 23 bathrooms and a rotating dance floor, two other Los Angeles mansions, a mansion in Palm Beach, a mansion in the Hamptons, and a 145-foot party yacht called Summerwind that once severely damaged a protected coral reef off Belize. Here's a look:
Mansion #1:
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He also owns a 145 foot yacht that severely damaged a protected coral reef.
The guy who owns these five mansions and the yacht says that Americans need to reduce their consumption.
Greene sounds like he might have been a clown prior to becoming a billionaire.
Hey, if it wasn’t for guys like this bad interior
decorators would be starving in the gutter.
Some animals are more equal than others...
LOL
He should give me a lifetime supply of wine.
After all, wine is expensive and I have to drive to buy it.
Did you see that cellar?
Across the US....we probably graduate at least a thousand interior decorator kids a year from our university system. If guys like this won’t throw money at these expert decorators....they’d be unemployed. So, we ought to appreciate guys with no taste, who hire interior decorators. Besides....some Italian marble guy is feeding his family off all the stuff they by, and pays taxes as well.
Wow! Neat houses. Don’t know about coral reefs tho. Would make for an interesting Insurance claim. Hey Allstate, I just put a dent in A coral reef. No, that’s c-o-r-a-l r-e-e-f not c-o-r-o-l-l-a. Yeah, a reef. Oh? You don’t pay for reefs!? Why not? A dent is a dent is a dent—
Freakin electric bill has to be horrible!!!
That place is nice on the outside and ugly on the inside.
Friend of mine decorated 1/3 of the California Mansion.
Weird job. Guy wanted 3 different interior designers, with three totally different environs.
Saw pics afterward and it didn’t look half bad.
Funny, the guy lost the home or something in a divorce.
Well we know where all that QE ended up going.
Oh wait, he meant just us unwashed folks, not him of course!
It does not bother me in the least that there are people this wealthy.
As tet68 pointed out, they employ a lot of folks to build, maintain and desecrate their property.
The only reservation I might have is if this wealth was obtained by means that are immoral, unethical or illegal. Or if it involves phony-crony capitalism rather than the inventive creative hard working kind.
I mean it’s not like he got it by being a blog pimp with an obscene screen name.
typical leftist never living by what he/she advocates.
This is how I feel. Just shut up and enjoy your spoils from the glorius sub prime market. Seems like all the people who wanted to live a more grand existence by getting funky loans helped this hypocrite achieve great wealth.
He used to be a Republican. I guess when you get enough money you can join the Democrat party?
Very very gaudy
is that a Vineyard next to his palace?
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