Jeff Bezos paid $10 million to buy the house next door to his $165 million estate
Because the property was never on the market, pictures and current details of the house are virtually nonexistent. But dated listings from 2018 describe the mini-estate as a “romantic pied-a-terre” with six fireplaces, a den, media room, library, and central courtyard. There were also backyard vegetable and rose gardens, plus a hedged front yard and two-car garage.
It’s unclear what Bezos wants with the property, which only shares a brief hedge line with his main estate. But it’s a good bet that the place might eventually be used as a lavish detached home office of some sort, or perhaps offsite digs for select employees of the multi-tiered Sanchez-Bezos family operation.
As one might expect from the planet’s richest human, Bezos has a well-documented affinity for buying his neighbors’ homes. Back in the late ’90s, he acquired several properties around his Seattle estate, and he alsoin the same Art Deco-style Manhattan building, three of them acquired from music executive Tommy Mottola.
In 2014, Bezos paid $13 million for a rundown home next door to his former Beverly Hills compound, which were both reportedly obtained by ex-wife Mackenzie Scott in their divorce. And last year, he
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