10 Most Expensive Things Owned By Bill Gates

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of the 21st century, Bill Gates was the richest man in the world, but due to his penchant for charity and philanthropy, his net worth has recently plunged to ninety-six point four

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ion dollars. Jeff Bezos surpassed him as the richest man in the world. Gates once said that money has no use for me beyond a certain point, its usefulness lies only in building an organization and getting resources to the poorest in the world, but even though the computer entrepreneur has donated the 27 percent of his lifetime fortune he can't help but enjoy some pretty opulent comforts since he dropped out of Harvard and founded Microsoft.

Bill Gates became the world's youngest

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ionaire at age 31 and has since maintained a gigantic fortune, from private jets to luxurious homes and swimming pools. Counting the 10 craziest

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Bill Gates owns Before we even look at the help Bill Gates lurks in his mansions, let's look at the houses themselves. Gates has exactly the kind of real estate portfolio you'd expect from a billionaire with a Washington mansion worth a hundred dollars. Twenty-three million dollars to multiple horse ranches just outside the gate of the US. He spends

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of his time in his 66,000 square foot mansion in Medinah Washington.

It took Gates seven years and $63 million to build this giant home that's packed with a host of technological features. He bought a lot for $2 million in 1988, but it's now worth an estimated $123 million on top of this in October. 2014 Gates purchased the Enda Pass 228 Acre Ranch for $18 million The property includes a race track guest house veterinarian office sweet orchard and five barns. There is a three-quarter mile dirt racing track on the property located in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Those buildings are full of equestrian decoration. Weight loss mogul Jenny Craig previously

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the property before selling it to Gates.

Gates also owns another horse farm in Wellington, Florida, which he purchased for $8.7 million in 2013. The family's daughter, Jennifer, is an avid equestrian and they had previously rented the house when they were in Florida for competitions in 2009. , although Gates reportedly purchased a ranch in Wyoming that once belonged to Buffalo Bill Cody, although the price paid for the 492-acre property was never reported, it was originally listed for eight point nine million dollars beyond these properties, owns many more properties through his Cascade private investment firm, including the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts and half of the Four Seasons Jane Hotels in 2013. and several anonymous buyers paid $161 million for the Ritz- Carlton in San Francisco.

The hotel is now worth $200 million. According to the Wall Street Journal, next let's take a look at the crown jewel of Gates' property portfolio, Xanadu 2.0, it should come as no surprise that one of the richest people in the world also has an incredibly extravagant home. It took Gates 7 years and $63 million to build his flagship property in Modena, Washington, high-tech details. He reportedly pays about $1 million in property taxes each year to give you an idea of ​​the scale. It took half a million board feet of lumber to complete the project that built the house 500 years ago. old Douglas fir trees 300 construction workers worked on the house 100 of whom were electricians the house uses its natural environment to reduce heat loss temperature more efficiently, plus a huge reception Room seats 200 guests 2,300-square-foot room seats 150 for a dinner party or 200 people standing at a cocktail party A 6-foot-tall limestone fireplace Width dominates one wall while another wall has a 22-foot-wide video screen.

The home has 24 bathrooms, ten of which are full baths, and there are six kitchens. The home theater seats up to 20 guests in plush seating. It is designed in style. Art Deco with comfortable armchairs, sofas and even a snack popcorn machine An existing house was removed by barge to make room for a separate activities building, the 900 square foot building is located next to the gate, sports court and boat docks, all doors together, garages can accommodate up to 23 cars, there are several different garages located at different points around the property. An interesting one, however, is an underground cave made of concrete and stainless steel in which the garage alone can park 10 cars.

Some of the concrete was broken on purpose to give it a rough deconstructivist look and just to put this amazing house in perspective, a Microsoft employee paid thirty five. thousand dollars just for a private tour of the facility, now that we know how many properties Gates owns, let's see how he equips them to match the lavish lifestyles of a billionaire as part of his massive Washington estate. Gates has an elaborate series of pools that begin with a gentle waterfall into a natural lagoon that flows into a 60-foot pool. There is a 3,900 square foot building just to house this particular pool, and as if that weren't crazy enough, people in the pool could swim under a glass wall. and goes up to a terrace area.

Outside there is also a changing room with showers and two bathrooms and includes a floor with fossil motifs. The pool is also equipped with a state-of-the-art underwater music system so guests never need to take a break from their favorite tunes even while swimming. This is an extension of the

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guest preference system. When a guest arrives, they are given a pin that interacts with sensors in each room of the house, depending on their preferences, temperature, music and lighting. change in the house, each room comes with its own touch panel to control the room environment, all this of course is in line with current smart home trends, so it wouldn't be a big problem, except that the doors had all this in 1995 of the 60 million dollars that went into the construction of their house, this preference system certainly occupied a large percentage.

One of the coolest features of this home is the flat screens behind the picture frames that respond to the pin each guest uses to provide art that is consistent with their interests, the artwork on the walls can be changed with a tap a button located around the house or on computer screens worth $80,000. Anyone can have the screens display their favorite paintings or photographs, which are stored on $150,000 worth of devices. Guests are asked to enter their favorite. artists and styles when they enter the house, but if they run out of time it is possible to know what they would like based on broader demographics such as age, gender and education level, but Gates does not only own digital artworks , said what was then an American art record when he bought Winslow's lost home runs from big banks for $36 million in 1998.

The painting hangs on a wall outside his home library. Inside his library is Hassan's Chill flower room, a piece believed to be worth 20 million. Dollars also owns a George Bellows painting called Polo Crabb Gates purchased the piece anonymously in a Southern Bee Stock in 1999 paying a whopping twenty-seven point five million dollars to add it to his collection. Gates also owns the $10 million William Merritt Chase nursery. dollars, he also paid thirty point eight million dollars for the Codex Life journal assigned to Chester, written and illustrated by hand by Leonardo da Vinci with all these fine art doors, the house could be a museum, although they only entertain guests of once in a while, in a recent interview with Ellen.

DeGeneres Gates revealed that he had only felt like he had made two extravagant purchases since he became a billionaire. The most extravagant, by far, was a private jet. Gates had previously referred to his private jet as a guilty pleasure and a huge splurge. It has been widely reported that he is the owner. A BD 700 global Express bomber with capacity for 19 people and a price of 40 million dollars. The global is the second business jet with the largest cabin after the Gulfstream g650. It can accommodate between 12 and 16 passengers in three cabin sections, mainly the forward one. For the club chair section, essential for grouping seats at conferences and three aft places to sell in front of two chairs, most have a crew lounge chair in the forward galley and a crew bathroom.

A variation of this vehicle is used by militaries around the world and is considered by many to be one of them. of the most luxurious private jets on the market the only other item Bill Gates considers a luxury purchase is his Porsche which he purchased shortly after becoming a billionaire Bill Gates The silver Porsche 959 is a rare beauty Gates first purchased the Porsche 911 Turbo in 1979 and is rumored to have been pulled over several times in the blue sports car. Porsche even officially changed the name of the car to the 959 doors. The Porsche 959 was the most impressive car to come out of the doors of the German automakers and quite possibly the best car of the 80s, this twin-turbo supercar was equipped with a six-speed manual transmission instead of the normal 5-speed.

It was capable of completing a 0-60 sprint in just three seconds and reaching over 195 miles per hour during its top speed not only for a patrol car in 1986 but also for cars released today, it's no wonder Gates had such an affinity for this car, the 959 cost $250,000 when it first came on the market, but because Gates' model is now a collector's item, experts estimate it could be worth up to $10 million for the right buyer. Those who are familiar with the habits of the doors know that he is a voracious reader He has an impressive library at the height of the 2,100 square foot library It has a vaulted ceiling and two secret bookshelves, including one that reveals In a bar hidden in the ceiling you will find a quote from The Great Gatsby saying that he had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to understand it.

The library also houses the Codex Life Chester, a 16th-century Leonardo da Vinci manuscript. The doors were purchased at auction for thirty point eight million dollars in 1994. This is the most

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piece in the library, but there are many other rare books, meaning the total value is probably over sixty million. dollars, although his personal library is off-limits except to distinguished guests, literacy is very important to Gates and, through his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he created the nonprofit global library organization to invest in public libraries in more from 50 countries and ensure that children and adults have access to free reading materials Bill Gates loves his daughters and spoiled them a little when they were little.

Imagine his delight when he revealed that they had an entire room dedicated to trampolines, much like an indoor gymnastics facility that girls could jump and play in at any time. day or night, kids like that. I recommend it. It is a room with a very high ceiling. Gates told Ellen DeGeneres and keep in mind that this is just a small fraction of the family's total exercise space. The exercise facilities total 2,500 square feet and also. They include a sauna, steam room and separate men's and women's changing rooms, all this in addition to a great series of basketball and tennis courts and, of course, Bill Gates' legendary swimming pool sounds like a lovely home to grow up in.

Gates lost his anonymity a long time ago, so it's hard for him to walk away from his fame and fortune. In order to escape, he installed a creek and beach on his property. The creek and wetland estuary were created to solve any runoff problems that the large walls on the property could have created the water is kept stocked with salmon and cutthroat trout. He also has a miles-long beach set up on his property with sand imported from the Caribbean. The lake shore contains sand which is delivered in large quantities by barge from st. Each year, Lucia's contractors estimate that the initial shipment must have cost at least two million dollars, while subsequent shipments probably cost around five hundred thousand dollars, although the water is too cold to swim in Washington.

Gates enjoys a long walk on the beach withauthentic white dresses. Sand and perhaps the most extravagant thing Gates owns is a private wealth fund, although much of his finances are still tied to Microsoft. He started a wealth fund with the intention of protecting the environment. Innovative energy to invest billion dollars in radical new energy companies capable of dramatically reducing global emissions, the fun draws on the resources of billionaires such as Mukesh Ambani of India, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, the former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, Richard Branson's virgins, Ali Baba's Jack Ma and Masayoshi's son of soft banks, this is in line with his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through which he has committed to donating his entire fortune during his lifetime , the foundation has already donated 30 billion dollars in recent decades