This is incredibly interesting. It would seem that Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are neighbors in Seattle...Here are the details.
Those tracking the area’s growing income inequality won’t be surprised that Washington State is home to the two richest men in the world: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. The pair teeter around the tops of richest-people lists depending on how Amazon and Microsoft shares are doing. But lately, Bezos has kept his iron grip on the top spot, and doesn’t show many signs of dropping back to second, although $107.4 billion and $104.4 billion are both unfathomable amounts of money. The pair are neighbors not just in net worth, but physical location, both with sprawling estates in the wealthy enclave on Evergreen Point Road in Medina. Bezos owns additional homes from coast to coast, with a massive $23 million home in Washington, DC and a set of ritzy Upper West Side apartments.
Jeff Bezos Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos maintains his home in the ultra-rich community of Medina, which he’s had since the late 1990s. The Washington State Bezos property is a 29,000-square-foot estate, complete with both a main house and a boathouse, along 200 yards of shoreline. It’s estimated to be worth around $70 million. Bezos also owns property in Beverly Hills, which he expanded in 2017 by buying the lot next door for a cool $12.9 million, and in DC, the former home of a textile museum. In 2019, he added a chunk of New York real estate to his collection of abodes, buying three condos, including a penthouse, in a ritzy Fifth Avenue building.
Bill Gates Bill Gates’s house, dubbed “Xanadu 2.0,” is the stuff of legend around here: It’s located down the street from Bezos in Medina, and when it was built it had 24 bathrooms, seven bedrooms, and a trampoline room with 20-foot ceilings. The pool, at least at the time of its construction, spanned both indoors and outdoors, separated by a glass wall that swimmers can dive underneath. Predating modern smarthomes, Gates’s home has had room-control touchpads and music that can follow visitors from room to room since 1995. The whole thing took seven years to complete, and the King County Assessor’s office values the home at more than $130 million. A tour alone went for $35,000 at auction. Not only are Bezos and Gates close in net worth—their properties are located on the same road in Medina. Do billionaires ever have to borrow a cup of sugar?
