The six-bedroom home spans about 5,800 square feet, according to the listing. It has a 10-person Jacuzzi overlooking a fire pit, a long oceanfront deck, limestone flooring, and a swimming pool.
Mr. Gates, one of the world’s richest people and the co-founder of Microsoft, has been in the public eye recently due to his early warnings about the global pandemic. This purchase adds to the couple’s already sprawling real estate portfolio, although Mr. Gates has historically treated his compound in Medina, Wash., as his primary home. In 2014, he also bought weight-loss guru Jenny Craig’s Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., equestrian estate for $18 million.
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How did he not buy with more annonimity?
@Tom
Agreed!! I am f@rking dumbfounded how this is known to the public. Unless, this is where his body double will reside.
I can’t wait to see what happens when someone walks too close to his property.
It was purchased in the name of the trust with a downtown Seattle address. But somebody was a rat – and it was not the agents, according to the article:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-and-melinda-gates-buy-oceanfront-home-near-san-diego-for-43-million-11587509127
Not much they can do when someone walks up to the glass partitions on beach side. That’s public access 24/7 when things get back to normal.
There’s also public access between the two structures of the house (there’s an alleyway which you probably know). There’s no way they can secure anywhere 5 feet from perimeter of house. The front door faces alleyway too.
I have a feeling it was t Boone Pickens Ex. She probably got a call and wasn’t together enough to deny she knew when people threw out a couple names.
Agree, and it demonstrates the value of his $43M to him – a fun purchase that if it gets unruly he just won’t go back.
Have you heard the story about one resident on that stretch who woke up to a bum sleeping on his patio, and they got into a brawl?