Jeff Bezos’ incredible property portfolio – including £134m LA mansion & 300,000 acre Texas ranch with a SPACE STATION
HE may have just settled an eye-watering £28billion divorce bill, but Jeff Bezos is still the world's richest man - and he has the property portfolio to prove it.
In recent weeks, the Amazon boss – who is worth a staggering £92billion ($113billion) – has been on a spending spree, adding a £16million New York flat and the most expensive house in Los Angeles, at £134million, to his empire.
He also owns a sprawling ranch in Texas, a converted museum in Washington DC, and two mansions in Seattle.
The 56-year-old, who started Amazon from his Seattle basement in 1994, split with MacKenzie, his wife of 22 years, last year, making her the third richest woman in the world.
Since then, the American billionaire has seen the coronavirus line his pocket even more, with stocks in the company soaring to £890billion ($1.1 trillion).
From the condos in New York to the home of a former Warner Bros mogul, we look inside the luxury houses of the richest man alive.
Manhattan condos worth £78m
In June 2019, two months after announcing his divorce, Bezos reportedly splashed out £65million on three apartments, over three adjacent floors, in New York.
Last weekend, he added a fourth floor to his apartment living space at a further £13million.
The four condos at Fifth Avenue, close to Broadway, the theatre district, boast a combined floor space of 20,000 feet.
Comprising the Penthouse flat and three floors below, the city dwelling boasts 15 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, lined with Italian marble, and huge expanses of open plan living areas.
The building comes with a cinema room, games room, fully equipped gym and a golf simulator as well as a 24-hour concierge service.
The Fifth Avenue apartments are not the only property the family owns in the Big Apple.
His parents, Jacklyn and Ted, own three condos in an art deco Manhattan building, overlooking Central Park, bought in 1999 for £6.2million.
In December 2019, Amazon announced plans to open a new 1,500-employee office in New York City, less than a year after scrapping its plans to build its second headquarters in the city.
The biggest LA property deal in history
In February this year, Bezos shelled out a massive £134million on a palatial mansion in Los Angeles, belonging to movie mogul David Geffen.
The deal, brokered on Geffen’s yacht The Rising Sun, was the biggest real estate in California’s history, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The property, spread over eight acres, has a 13,600-square-foot mansion, two guesthouses, a pool, includes a nine-hole golf course and a tennis court.
It also features a European garden, a "rock-lagoon-like" pool/spa and waterfalls.
The mansion was built in 1926 for Jack Warner, the founder of Warner Bros. Studios, and was the scene of legendary Hollywood parties, with guests including Marilyn Monroe, James Stewart, Olivia de Havilland and Howard Hughes.
The Georgian-style home has eight bedrooms and nine bathrooms and includes a floor that was once owned by Napoleon.
Geffen bought the estate for £38.5million in 1990 and reportedly spent £36.5 million renovating the property, including £16 million on landscaping the garden.
It's not the only property the Amazon CEO has bought in Beverly Hills.
In 2007, he spent £20million on a Spanish-style mansion with seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms in one of the most exclusive roads in the area.
At the time it was advertised in Dream Homes Magazine as having a greenhouse, a sunken tennis court, a huge swimming pool, four fountains and a six-car garage.
Ten years later he bought the four-bedroom, 4,568-square-foot home next door for £10.4million.
Bought £4m house opposite Washington mansion to 'protect privacy'
The billionaire businessman’s home base is in Washington DC, where he bought a converted textile museum in 2016, for £18.6million
Built in 1912, the historic building is in the heart of the capital's swanky Kalorama district, where neighbours include Barack and Michelle Obama and Ivanka Trump.
He also owns the property next door, which is linked by a covered driveway.
The two buildings on the property have nearly 27,000 square feet of living space, making it the largest home in Washington, DC.
Bezos spent £10million overhauling the houses and the grounds.
In January this year, it was reported that Bezos had also bought the four-bedroom detached home across the street for a modest £4million.
The Washingtonian suggested that the property, which was on the market for less than a month, had been bought by the Amazon boss to protect his privacy, as it had direct view into his mansion across the street.
330,000 acre ranch in Texas - with a space station
As a child Bezos spent his summers at his grandparents ranch in Texas and he was keen for his four children to have the same experience.
He owns a 300,000-acre ranch, in Van Horn, Texas, which boasts a huge mansion and a bunkhouse, which sleeps 12.
The huge estate also allows him to indulge in another childhood fantasy – launching rockets into space.
It includes the base for his private space company, Blue Origin, where test flights for his space tourism craft New Shepard began in 2006.
Waterfront mansions near Bill Gates
The sought-after waterfront town of Medina, near Seattle, is where Bezos owns two more of his properties.
The mogul reportedly paid £8million for the first property in 1998, a 20,600-square-foot, five-bedroom, four-bathroom house overlooking Lake Washington.
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He also owns an adjacent home, which has five bedrooms and four bathrooms, rumoured to have cost £43 million.
Medina, also home to Bill Gates, is located on a peninsula just across the lake from Seattle and attracts billionaire entrepreneurs because of its small population of 3,000, relative security and private beaches.
