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BIG PURCHASES

BUYERS’ MARKET

WHICH EYE-WATERINGLY expensive doodads did members of The Forbes
400 stick in their gilded shopping bags over the past year? Pro sports teams,
swank crash pads, historic books, big-city broadsheets and adorably fuzzy hoofed ERIC LEFKOFSKY
mammals, among much else. Here’s a sampling. COFOUNDER, GROUPON
$31 MILLION (REPORTED)
BAUBLE: Penthouse at the Four Seasons Residences
at the Surf Club in Miami. Sounds extravagant,
maybe, but the place did come furnished.
MARC BENIOFF
FOUNDER AND CEO,
SALESFORCE
$190 MILLION
BAUBLE: Time. Nearly $200
million marks a bit of a
market rebound for print
JEFFREY HILDEBRAND publications since News-
FOUNDER, HILCORP ENERGY week sold for $1 (plus $10
$300,000 million of debt) in 2010.
BAUBLE: A “Grand Champion Lamb” at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo,
for a record price. Much of that will go toward scholarships (and, ultimately, one
hopes, sheepskins) for the show’s young exhibitors.

LEN BLAVATNIK
INVESTOR
$90 MILLION
(REPORTED)
BAUBLE: 19 East 64th
Street, a five-story
powerhouse town house
on Manhattan’s Upper
East Side. It had sold
for $79.5 million just
ten months earlier.
JAMES IRSAY
OWNER, NFL’S INDIANAPOLIS COLTS
$2.4 MILLION
BAUBLE: The original 1939 “Big Book” manuscript
of Alcoholics Anonymous, with handwritten
notes throughout from AA cofounder Bill
Wilson. (Irsay is a recovering alcoholic.)

PATRICK SOON-SHIONG GRANT HALVERSON/GETTY IMAGES; BRIAN ZAK/NY POST/NEWSCOM; CHAMPIONLAMBBUYERS
DAVID TEPPER BIOTECH
FOUNDER, APPALOOSA MANAGEMENT $500 MILLION
$2.3 BILLION BAUBLE: No fake news here. Dr. Billionaire became
BAUBLE: The NFL’s Carolina Panthers, a record sum for a sports franchise. The an ink-stained wretch with his pickups of the BY ANGEL AU-YEUNG
purchase included a statue of the previous owner, Jerry Richardson, which as a Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune
condition of the sale must remain standing outside the team’s stadium in Charlotte. and a handful of California community papers.

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