Here are Billionaires with the most RIDICULOUS lifestyles!!
9 - Larry Ellison As the co-founder of Oracle Corporation, Larry
Ellison is worth an astounding $56.2 billion.
With that kind of money he can afford things such as military jets, yachts and a collection
of homes worth close to a half billion dollars.
He’s definitely no stranger to the real estate market — he’s been called “the
nation’s most avid trophy-home buyer”.
He spent $1 million for a sound system in one of his houses, complete with a concert
grade projection screen.
He also owns a historic garden villa in Kyoto, Japan, which was reportedly listed for $86
million, although the price he paid is unknown.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Ellison also purchased 98 percent the Hawaiian Island, Lanai for
reportedly $500 million.
Still not impressed?
Check this out, his Yacht, the Rising Sun, is the eighth biggest yacht in the world.
He also owns several beach side properties, including a mansion once owned by the Astor
family.
Looking to get in on some the action?
One of his Malibu homes, a 2,800-square-foot oceanfront cottage, is available to rent for
$65,000 a month.
Just round up a few friends and split that AirBNB!
So I’m guessing you’re gonna assume he flies on a PJ all the time right?
Nope!
This man has a pilot’s license, and he prefers to do the flying himself in his military grade
jets.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Ellison made a cameo in Iron Man 2, because with his jets,
cars, and a touch of arrogance, he isn’t all that different from Tony Stark.
8 - Jeff Greene This isn’t Larry David’s sidekick, but
rather a billionaire real estate mogul who once got involved with politics.
This has become pretty normal here in America, and a dude named Jeff Greene has been a part
of that trend.
He began saving money while in business school to invest in real estate.
Obviously he was pretty good at it as he’s amassed a huge fortune over the years, ultimately
landing him on the Forbes 400 list.
Aside from his unsuccessful senate bid in 2010, Greene has been known for his lavish
lifestyle and affinity for boxing.
In 2005, his luxury yacht allegedly caused some damage to the Belize Coral Reef.
Though he wasn’t even on the ship at the time, he still faced a fine of over $1 million.
That’s pretty much pocket change for a dude worth around $3 billion.
Apparently, his aforementioned love of boxing sparked a friendship with Mike Tyson.
Tyson was the best man of Greene’s wedding in 2007, and would later tell stories of an
epic adventure aboard Greene’s yacht.
Whether or not the story is true...who knows?
But this IS Mike Tyson we’re talking about here, and he doesn’t seem like the type
to lie, so it’s not beyond the realm of possibility.
7 - Bidzina Ivanishvili People who live in glass houses shouldn’t
throw rocks.
You’ve probably heard that your whole life and maybe thought to yourself...who the beep
would live in a glass house?
Well, meet Bidzina Ivanishvili.
The Georgian Billionaire made his fortune in Russia from buying companies in the metals
and banking industry in the 90’s.
He would then sell off the companies and reinvest them in gold and American equities.
He eventually moved back to his home country of Georgia, where he became Prime Minister
in 2012.
But we don’t care about his politics….check out this glass house we were just talking
about.
It’s a 108,000 square foot glass mansion with an amazing view.
For a hefty sum of $50 million, Ivanishvili had this thing built, complete with a petting
zoo and art collection featuring the works of Picasso, and obviously much more art worth
how much you ask………just oh, around $1 billion.
I guess his most prized piece is Picasso's 'Dora Maar With Cat' painting, which he paid
$95.2million for at Sotheby’s in 2006.
Don’t worry.
He can afford it.
6 - Silvio Berlusconi As it turns out, America isn’t the only
place to elect billionaires without political experience to lead their country.
Silvio Berlusconi has served as the Italian Prime Minister on four separate occasions.
As one of the most powerful men in the world, Berlusconi has used his status and wealth
to live a lavish lifestyle.
In 2009 for example, leaked documents from the Italian Senate revealed that after years
of some legendary late night partying, Berlusconi was facing some serious health problems.
Berlusconi has been linked with women much younger than him.
His excessive lifestyle gained him a reputation as a playboy politician, which coupled with
years of scandals and alleged corruption, often put him at odds with the Italian public.
In 2010 he defended his lifestyle saying, quote, “I’m a playful person, full of
life.
I love life, I love women.”
“Nobody can make me, at my age, change my lifestyle, of which I am absolutely proud.”
He told all that to reporters in Brussels.
Wellps, there you have it!
5 - Richard Branson Richard Branson made his money after founding
the Virgin Group, which is a conglomerate of over 400 companies, including Virgin Records,
Virgin Mobile and Virgin Atlantic.
All this started after Branson started a magazine called Student way back in the day.
A bit of an eccentric dude, Branson has been known for the creative ways in which he enjoys
his wealth.
Exhibit A…. he bought his own island…
Necker Island.
The story behind how he got the island is actually pretty interesting; I highly recommend
you guys to google it yourself since I’m not going to go into it in this video.
Anyways, Branson, always the entrepreneur, rents out his island for about $10,000 a day
when he isn’t using it himself.
He’s also known for flying around the world in fancy jets, kitesurfing, skydiving and
submarine rides.
Branson actually isn’t the biggest show-off, and some of his money, well actually, a lot,
goes towards good causes, such as using his money to help find missing children or to
help combat global warming.
Branson has actually been knighted, as he’s British, so we should have been technically
referring to him as Sir Richard Branson!
Oops!
4 - Clive Palmer He’s just barely a billionaire, but he seems
too interesting to exclude from this list.
Palmer became rich from his company, Mineralogy, an Australian mining company.
He also owns a number of resorts and golf courses and was the owner of Gold Coast FC
from 2008-2012.
With all of his riches, he has made some odd decisions over the years.
In 2013 he told the world that he would build an exact replica of the Titanic.
He said, “Why build the Titanic?
Why go to the moon?"
"Why do the Yankees play the Red Sox?
Why did Christopher Columbus discover the Americas?
Because they could, and I can, and we can build the Titanic.”
Doubling down on weird ideas, Palmer also opened a theme park with fake dinosaurs.
He named it Palmersaurus Dinosaur Park.
Thankfully he hasn’t attempted to make actual dinosaurs or anything like that, so we don’t
have a Jurassic Park type disaster on our hands here.
However, as a part of the Palmer Coolum Resort, Jeff the T-Rex greets golfers at the 9th hole.
3 - Huang Yimin
This Chinese entrepreneur publicly displayed his wealth when he bought a private island
in 2011.
In doing so he became the first person from China with the distinct honor of owning their
own island.
After paying just around a half million dollars to own the certificate to the island, Huang
announced that he planned to turn it into a hunting reserve for wealthy Chinese businessman.
Hunting apparently is the latest craze in China.
The Danmenshen Island was uninhabited when he bought it, but Huang’s ambition was to
populate the island with all sorts of animals.
Huang has already spent over $5 million to stock the island with wild boar, pheasants
and deer.
we actually don’t know a whole lot about Huang.
He made his fortune in the petrochemical industry, and as you can see, uses some of his wealth
in some bizarre ways.
2 - Hassanal Bolkiah As the Sultan and Prime Minister of Brunei,
Hassanal Bolkiah is worth around $20 billion, give or take a few million bucks.
The Sultan has used a portion of his wealth to amass one of the largest private car collections,
probably in the history of humans.
This collection of cars, which is said to include some 7,000 vehicles, supposedly cost
billions of dollars.
SEVEN.
THOUSAND.
CARS.
Legend has it, this amazing collection includes 300 ferraris, 600 Rolls Royces, one of which
is coated in 24 karat gold, 6 Mclaren f1s and thousands more cars.
And it’s not just the cars.
He travels the world by flying his own Boeing 747.
What about his houses?!
Good thing you brought that up.
The Istana Nurul Iman is the official palace of the Sultan, and it’s one of the largest
in the world.
Complete with 1,800 rooms and 17 stories, it cost over $1 billion to build.
The Sultan even owns luxury hotels all over the world, including the Beverly Hills Hotel
and the Dorchester in London.
Custom cigars, helicopters, gold cars, and a fancy palace…all just the perks of being
a 20 Billionaire.
1 - Howard Hughes As a staple in the film and aviation industries,
Howard Hughes was among the most successful entrepreneurs of his time.
His big budget films such as Scarface, Hell’s Angels and the Outlaw, made him a hollywood
staple in the 1920’s and 30’s and his penchant for flying led him to establish the
Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932.
With a net worth of more than $3 billion and an eccentric personality, Hughes lived a rather
colorful lifestyle.
He dated plenty of famous and attractive women and did random things such as buying a luxury
yacht called Rover on a whim.
But his true passion was airplanes.
He set many world air speed records and developed the Hughes H-1 Racer and the H-4 Hercules,
better known as the Spruce Goose.
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