Posted on 02/13/2020 8:45:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has bought a Beverly Hills mansion from media mogul David Geffen in a record-breaking transaction for Los Angeles, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The world's richest man is said to have paid $165m (£126m) for the property - known as the Warner Estate - which would make it the most expensive home in the Los Angeles area.
It beats the previous record set last year when Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch bought the Chartwell estate in the city's Bel Air neighbourhood for $150m (£115m).
The 9.4-acre Warner Estate was built in 1937 by its namesake, Warner Bros Studio boss Jack Warner, and is kitted out with huge terraces, gardens, guest houses, a tennis court and a golf course.
It is listed in The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills book, which was quoted in the Journal as saying: "No studio czar's residence, before or since, has ever surpassed in size, grandeur, or sheer glamor the Jack Warner Estate on Angelo Drive in Benedict Canyon."
In 1990, Mr Geffen purchased the property for $47.5m (£36m), which was also a record for Los Angeles at that time.
He then reportedly gutted the home except for a wooden floor said to be the one that Napoleon stood on as he proposed to Josephine.
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David Geffen is gay and has held many gay parties at that home with young teen boys. That swimming pool there needs to bulldozed.
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Defining why that should be so is your own determination to make.
Re your PM:
That’s not what you said where everyone could see it.
It isn’t saying it does, it says do not seek wealth, it will not bring happiness. It says be happy if you can keep the lights on and have a home and clothes and food etc.
“...do not seek wealth, it will not bring happiness....”
I don’t know... Trump sure seems pretty damn happy. Even BEFORE he became President.
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