L.A.’s optimistic home developers spent the last few years constructing over-the-top glass compounds with candy rooms, helipads and bowling alleys on spec—assuming ultrarich buyers would bite. But a recent spate of $100-million-plus deals shows that buyers at the very top of L.A.’s market are looking for something different: history.
Amazon.com Inc. chief executive Jeff Bezos paid $165 million, a record for the area, to purchase a 9.4-acre quintessential old Hollywood estate—a Georgian-style compound built by Jack Warner,...
Geffen paid $47.5 million for it in 1990, paid $45m in upgrades, lived in it for 30 years and SOLD it for $165m. Who got the better end of that deal? Many other crazy-sized homes follow this story at that link.
JCOviedo6 This house was a pocket listing at $100m for years
Bezos does not share.
Of course there were no brokers, they were spotted on the same yacht over the summer, why pay millions in commissions
Summers I live off grid in a metal shipping contain along the Snake River Alaska, eat wild salmon, blue berries, and mushroom, fly fish and hunt every day. Ugh? So Jeffery, don't ask to swap with me!
That was a Pay Off not a real estate transaction!! What dirt did he really buy for that money?
That's not a pocket listing/ transaction. That's the cargo pant version of a pocket listing/transaction.
His interest lies in the underground tunnels 🤨
It’s like a normal person spending $20 for a house.
Right, because the general population are all looking for a 165 million dollar house to buy
And the LA fires start, just saying
I'll take 3. ROFLMAO
At 25k a piece he could have built 6600 tiny homes for homeless veterans.
Oh Napoleon... What a hero
People buying palaces like this is just silly, even if the price tag is pocket change for the buyer. Have fun getting lost in your own home....
There are rich people in Europe too but this show-off culture ,shameless parading of wealth is very American. It shows no regard for millions too poor to even eat & it’s reflective of the disdain America has for the poor including its own. Shameful!
CDANadmin Tht must be why he was selling shares in Amazon
It's just materials, amusing how humanity is fixated with Fake money with numbers
No, but I am available to date. Can you pass this on to Mr. Bezo's for me?
I reckon we should give this man a tax break. That way he'll be more incentivised to pay his employees instead of buying private mansions
If he's a bit short now there's plenty of bargains on Amazon to fill his house with
These mfs playing Sims irl
Time for a wealth tax
The Elba House?
And folks believe that the top 2% deserves tax breaks from trump. SMH!
Pocket change for Jeff. Ask the pharaoh’s can’t take it with you.
Have fun in the one room you will eventually hang out in.
Not amazing at all.
infosam I guess Realogy's $5000 TurnKey® Amazon coupon wasn't enough to get Jeff's attention.
That’s nothing to him
Cheap for him...Less than 0.2% of his net worth.We buy an affordable house...it is probably 300% of our net worth. 😂😂😂😂
“You’re So Vain”
Every robot truck mile, every google search, every facebook ad
You could rewrite that headline to 'this is what 97 median lifetime incomes will buy you'
Aap broker hain ya party?
JeffBezos amazon still don’t have enough money to pay taxes... so sad
Stolen wages
Good for him! Aren’t you homeless Vets happy for his success?
Woop ti do
We all die one day and leave it behind just like Napoleon he died a bitter person on an Island . Hope this is not Bezos’s Waterloo
BernieSanders go after this madness!
🌞 🌞
I do not have any respect for the guy he is a cheap bastard with everybody even with his employees. He killed a lot of brick and mortar shops, filled the landfills with cardboard and sold me an expired “sugar free nutella”.
I would have it steamed cleaned first.
Jeff bezos, with a (googled) net worth of $130 billion spending $165,000,000 is the equivalent of an average American ($97,000 net worth) spending $123. So he basically bought a nice pair of shoes.
Rich guys - I want Napoleon's floor. That's gonna cost you.
Lonely big place, perfect for a hermit like him I’m sure he will be happy there with his true love....
Perfect place for a homeless persons encampment. Will he be naming it, 'Les Miserables?'
My autocrats are better than your autocrats.
He bought it just for the attention. His penis must be small..
Why would I want a 300 year old floor?
what a great insight into his mindset Bezos 2024?
The guy who bought this house also owns washingtonpost
Frivolous. Disgusting. We could feed a country with that money.
Everybody is hating on somebody who through hard work and smarts created a multi billion dollar company from nothing. And not a worthless company; one that provides services a majority of Americans use monthly if not more. Let him enjoy life his way
Maybe some of the 11.4 million illegals can live there?
Well, if he's standing on the floor that Napoleon did no wonder democracy is dying in darkness!
Did it come with extra cans of paint & stencils for fake garage doors?
Fun fact, that's only 1.3% of his net worth.
I'm happy for him! I'm sure this house is lovely, but... Meanwhile, I'm dreaming of the day I finally get on the property ladder in London. And I consider myself relatively privileged! Pardon me, did you say... increasing inequalities?
Well of course it does.
Future residence of Lauren's replacement
It's hard to find something for less than $164 million these days that includes a floor Napoleon stood on. Think of the good that money could do in this world and it all went to one man's home...
EatTheRich Bernie2020
When the sh!t hits the fan, I'll be sure to visit & take a dump on that floor.
Rather fitting considering the Napolean complex that Bezos exudes.
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