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A russian oligarch's $90 million yacht is seized as part of u.s. sanctions.

A Civil Guard stands by the yacht called Tango in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on Monday. U.S. federal agents and Spain's Civil Guard are searching the yacht owned by a Russian oligarch. Francisco Ubilla/AP hide caption

A Civil Guard stands by the yacht called Tango in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on Monday. U.S. federal agents and Spain's Civil Guard are searching the yacht owned by a Russian oligarch.

Spanish officials have seized a Russian-owned luxury yacht in Mallorca at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice. It was the first coordinated seizure under the department's Task Force KleptoCapture, which is tasked with enforcing the sweeping sanctions placed on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine.

The $90 million 255-foot yacht, named Tango, is owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who heads the Renova Group, a Russian conglomerate with interests in metallurgy, machinery, energy, telecommunications as well as others.

"Today marks our taskforce's first seizure of an asset belonging to a sanctioned individual with close ties to the Russian regime. It will not be the last," said Attorney General Merrick Garland in a statement. "Together, with our international partners, we will do everything possible to hold accountable any individual whose criminal acts enable the Russian government to continue its unjust war."

The seizure was performed by Spanish Guardia Civil officers with assistance from the FBI.

U.S. officials allege that the Tango has been owned continuously by Vekselberg since 2011 and that he used shell companies to " obfuscate his interest in the Tango ," the Justice Department said in a press release.

The release cites alleges bank fraud and money laundering as justification for the seizure, highlighting U.S. bank payments for support and maintenance of the vessel — including a December 2020 stay at a luxury water villa resort in the Maldives.

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$90 Million Yacht of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg Seized by Spain at Request of United States

Note:  Footage of the seizure is available  here . View the statement from the Attorney General on today's seizure  here .

Spanish law enforcement today executed a Spanish court order freezing the Motor Yacht (M/Y) Tango (the Tango), a 255-foot luxury yacht owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. Spanish authorities acted pursuant to a request from the U.S. Department of Justice for assistance following the issuance of a seizure warrant, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which alleged that the Tango was subject to forfeiture based on violation of U.S. bank fraud, money laundering, and sanction statutes. Separately, seizure warrants obtained in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia target approximately $625,000 associated with sanctioned parties held at nine U.S. financial institutions. Those seizures are based on sanctions violations by several Russian specially designated nationals.

According to documents filed in this case, the U.S. investigation alleges that Vekselberg bought the Tango in 2011 and has owned it continuously since that time. It further alleges that Vekselberg used shell companies to obfuscate his interest in the Tango to avoid bank oversight into U.S. dollar transactions related thereto. Additionally, after Vekselberg was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department on April 6, 2018, the warrant alleges that Vekselberg and those working on his behalf continued to make U.S. dollar payments through U.S. banks for the support and maintenance of the Tango and its owners, including a payment for a December 2020 stay at a luxury water villa resort in the Maldives and mooring fees for the yacht. Vekselberg had an interest in these payments and therefore a license was required from the Treasury Department, which was not obtained.

“Today marks our taskforce’s first seizure of an asset belonging to a sanctioned individual with close ties to the Russian regime. It will not be the last,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Together, with our international partners, we will do everything possible to hold accountable any individual whose criminal acts enable the Russian government to continue its unjust war.”

“Today’s action makes clear that corrupt Russian oligarchs cannot evade sanctions to live a life of luxury as innocent Ukrainians are suffering,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco. “Today the Department of Justice delivers on our commitment to hold accountable those whose criminal activity strengthens the Russian government as it continues to wage its unjust war in Ukraine. That commitment is one we are not finished honoring.”

“Today we announce another example of the FBI using our worldwide presence and partnerships, as well as our expertise and experience, to track and seize illicit money and assets, to counter threats to our safety and national security,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “We will continue to use every lawful tool to go after designated Russian oligarchs' assets – however and wherever they hide them.”

The seizure was coordinated through the Justice Department’s Task Force KleptoCapture, an interagency law enforcement task force dedicated to enforcing the sweeping sanctions, export restrictions, and economic countermeasures that the United States has imposed, along with its allies and partners, in response to Russia’s unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine. Announced by the Attorney General on March 2 and run out of the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, the task force will leverage all the Department’s tools and authorities against efforts to evade or undermine the economic actions taken by the U.S. government in response to Russian military aggression.

“The seizure of this luxury yacht demonstrates our determination to hold accountable those who support Vladimir Putin’s unwarranted invasion of another sovereign nation,” said U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves for the District of Columbia. “We will continue to use every tool to enforce the sanctions aimed at Putin’s regime and the oligarchs who support it.  Working with our federal and international partners, we will be unflagging in our efforts to bring to justice those who violate these sanctions, and to seize assets where appropriate and lawful.”

“Today’s seizure of Viktor Vekselberg’s yacht, the Tango, in Spain is the result of an unprecedented multinational effort to enforce U.S. sanctions targeting those elites who have enabled Russia’s unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine,” said Director Andrew Adams of Task Force KleptoCapture. “For those who have tied their fortunes to a brutal and lawless regime, today’s action is a message that those nations dedicated to the rule of law are equally dedicated to separating the oligarchs from their tainted luxuries. This seizure is only the beginning of the Task Force’s work in this global effort to punish those who have and continue to support tyranny for financial gain.”

“The FBI will continue to work with its partners to protect the integrity of the banking system and support the enforcement of sanctions programs,” said Special Agent in Charge Michael F. Paul of the FBI’s Minneapolis Field Office. “FBI agents and analysts, regardless of where they are assigned around the world, will work tirelessly to ensure those who attempt to evade sanctions are held accountable.”

“The Russian invasion of Ukraine was an unprovoked act of aggression that has targeted the lives and well-being of millions of people and threatened international security,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Ricky J. Patel of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York.  “For decades, the Putin regime has been supported by a group of Russian oligarchs that abused their power for private gain to amass untold riches. As DHS’s investigative arm, HSI stands at the forefront of combatting global networks that seek to violate U.S. law and exploit our nation’s financial systems.  Working with our partners at the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI, we will hold Putin’s oligarchs accountable and deny them the lavish lifestyles they cherish.”

Upon receipt of a request from the United States pursuant to a bi-lateral treaty for mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, the Spanish central authority for mutual legal assistance forwarded the request to a Spanish prosecutor, who obtained a freezing order from a Spanish court. The order was executed by Spain’s Guardia Civil on April 4.

The Tango, International Maritime Organization number 1010703, is believed to be worth approximately $90 million or more. The yacht is now in Mallorca.

The burden to prove forfeitability in a forfeiture proceeding is upon the government.

The matter of the Tango is being investigated by the FBI’s Minneapolis Field Office with assistance from the FBI Legal Attaché Office in Madrid and the HSI New York Field Office.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen P. Seifert for the District of Columbia and Paralegal Brian Rickers and Legal Assistant Jessica McCormick for the District of Columbia are handling the seizure. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs provided significant assistance in working with the Spanish authorities, as well as the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS).

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The US justice official in charge of seizing Russian assets breaks down the capture of an oligarch's $90 million superyacht

• The US seized sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg's $90 million yacht in Spain on April 4.
• Andrew Adams, director of the KleptoCapture inter-agency task force, broke down the seizure in a WaPo Q&A.
• The US was "in some ways lucky" the 255-foot vessel was moored in a Spanish port, he admitted.

On April 4, the US seized a $90 million superyacht which it said belonged to sanctioned Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. It was the first yacht seized by the US under sanctions aimed at hurting wealthy Russians with links to Vladimir Putin.

Vekselberg, whose net worth Bloomberg puts at around $16.4 billion, is chairman of the metals, mining, and energy conglomerate Renova Group. He was sanctioned by the US in 2018 and again in March after Russia invaded Ukraine, with the Tango and his private aircraft designated as blocked property.

The 255-foot Tango was seized at the Marina Real in Palma De Mallorca, Spain, by Spain's Civil Guard and officials tied to KleptoCapture , a task force set up in early March by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to seize the assets of sanctioned Russians.

In a live question and answer session with The Washington Post , Andrew Adams, director of KleptoCapture, detailed how and why his task force seized the vessel .

Making the case

The DOJ said Vekselberg bought Tango in 2011 but hid his ownership using shell companies to "avoid bank oversight into US dollar transactions related there." It said Vekselberg and people working on his behalf continued to make US dollar payments through US banks for the support and maintenance of the yacht, without obtaining the required license after he was sanctioned.

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Adams said: "After having developed probable cause to demonstrate that the yacht was, in fact, the proceeds of sanctions evasion, as well as an asset involved in money laundering transactions, the mechanics get even more complicated."

However, he said the US was "in some ways lucky that the vessel was sitting where it was," in a "friendly port" in Spain.

"The Spanish authorities have been for years particularly adept in the investigation and in asset seizures and freezing in the area of Russian organized crime," Adams said. "So, we knew that we had a good partner to work with in Spain."

Seizing the Tango

Adams said US officials had to obtain a domestic seizure warrant from a magistrate judge and have it effected in Spain. The DOJ said a Spanish prosecutor obtained a freezing order from a Spanish court following a request from the US, as part of a bilateral treaty for mutual legal assistance in criminal matters.

"Once we had the warrant in place, the efforts then become one to physically seize the boat" and execute a search warrant, Adams told The Post. Agents from the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations were on site to help with the search and the seizure, he said.

Adams said the US had to maintain the yacht and keep it in good order. He said that yachts can become forfeitable through criminal cases, "which remains a possibility in this instance."

"There will be more to come with respect to this yacht before the United States can fully and finally divest Mr Vekselberg of his interests yet," Adams said.

He added that he wasn't ruling out the possibility that some of the forfeiture from the yacht could be given to Ukraine.

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U.S. seizes superyacht of Russian billionaire close to Putin

Viktor vekselberg’s $90 million tango was boarded by spanish and u.s. agents while in port in spain’s balearic islands.

U.S. authorities seized a 255-foot luxury yacht in Spain owned by Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg on Monday under a new sanctions drive to punish the financial elite close to Russian President Vladimir Putin by seizing assets such as ships, luxury real estate and private aircraft .

Spanish and U.S. law enforcement agents boarded the $90 million Tango early Monday as the ship was docked at the Marina Real in the port of Palma de Mallorca in Spain’s Balearic Islands, in the Mediterranean Sea. Spanish authorities executed a court order placing a freeze on the vessel after the Justice Department obtained a seizure warrant seeking forfeiture in federal court in Washington, alleging U.S. bank fraud, money laundering and sanctions violations.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the seizure, the first by the United States as it and its allies have sought to penalize Kremlin supporters for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine .

“Today marks our taskforce’s first seizure of an asset belonging to a sanctioned individual with close ties to the Russian regime. It will not be the last,” Garland said with Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray in a written statement. “Together, with our international partners, we will do everything possible to hold accountable any individual whose criminal acts enable the Russian government to continue its unjust war.”

$90 Million Yacht of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg Seized by Spain at Request of United States https://t.co/SfZ7j3io2j pic.twitter.com/pnbZgDKS8n — Justice Department (@TheJusticeDept) April 4, 2022

President Biden announced a multinational effort to target assets held by Russian billionaires close to Putin in his State of the Union address on March 1, saying, “ We are coming for your ill-begotten gains ,” including “your yachts, your luxury apartments, your private jets.”

Sanctions were imposed on Vekselberg and the company he founded, the Renova Group, in April 2018 by the Treasury Department after the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain that Western intelligence officials have attributed to Russia.

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vekselberg was hit with new penalties by the U.S. government on March 11 that named him; three family members of Putin’s spokesman; 12 members of the Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament; and 10 people on the board of VTB Bank, the second-largest lender in Russia.

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All of Vekselberg’s assets in the United States are frozen, and U.S. companies are barred from doing business with him and his entities, whose holdings include metals, mining, technology and other assets with a net worth of more than $6 billion, according to the Treasury Department.

The seizure warrant states that despite his status as an individual under sanction, Vekselberg and those working on his behalf made payments in U.S. dollars to support the Tango, including during a December 2020 stay at a luxury water villa resort in the Maldives.

U.S. investigators alleged that Vekselberg structured transactions to conceal his identity, including through the use of shell companies. Investigators cited three confidential witnesses, including a manager and employee of a company that provided services during the vessel’s design and construction who said the Russian was the true owner.

Vekselberg was included on a March 16 Treasury Department list of 50 Russian elites whom the United States viewed as top priorities for a new multinational body hunting assets of Kremlin backers, called the Russian Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs Task Force (REPO).

The task force is a key tool for the United States and more than half a dozen of its allies to identify and track where Russian oligarchs are parking their assets, a task complicated by the opaque or complicated financial instruments frequently used by the ultrawealthy to hide their holdings from public view.

The Treasury Department publicly released 28 of the 50 names on the list — including Putin’s — but did not name the 22 others to avoid tipping them off.

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“Corruption is the financial and political capital lifeblood for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and slaughter of innocent civilians,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui said in an order approving the seizure warrant and finding that U.S. investigators did not need court approval to search documents, electronics and other items aboard the Tango. The judge called the seizure “just the beginning of the reckoning that awaits those who would facilitate Putin’s atrocities,” adding that it “echoes the message of the brave Ukrainian soldiers” who reportedly told a Russian warship to “go f--- yourself.”

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France, Italy and Spain have seized several boats of billionaires in recent weeks, even as others traced to Russia’s wealthiest people have weighed anchor for the Maldives, which has no extradition treaty with the United States, or appear stranded in European ports unable to purchase fuel.

France on March 2 seized a yacht whose main shareholder was Igor Sechin, head of Russia’s state-controlled oil giant Rosneft, at a Mediterranean port near Marseille. Spanish authorities on March 15 seized another vessel said to belong to Sechin, the 440-foot Crescent, in Catalonia.

Spain also has seized a $140 million, 280-foot yacht registered to the stepdaughter of Sergei Chemezov, a former KGB officer who heads the state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec and who with his wife and stepdaughter are on U.S. sanctions lists.

Italy has reportedly seized at least three yachts — vessels worth up to $580 million each — belonging to Russian steel, petroleum and coal magnates who are under sanction.

According to CBS News , however, a satellite image shows a yacht said to be owned by Putin docked at a Russian port — and out of reach of any possible sanctions or seizure.

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The Justice Department said Monday’s seizure was coordinated by an interagency KleptoCapture task force responsible for sanctions, export restrictions and economic countermeasures aimed at Russia that Garland announced March 2. In addition to the Tango, seizure warrants targeted about $625,000 held at nine U.S. financial institutions by individuals under sanction.

Vekselberg, born in western Ukraine in 1957 to a Jewish father who lost several relatives in the Holocaust, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Transportation Engineering in 1979 and has maintained close ties to Putin and former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev since his rise to wealth. He also has ties to U.S. interests, including a multimillion-dollar pied-à-terre in New York City and a $5 million house in Weston, Conn.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vekselberg, once a researcher at a state-run laboratory, joined the rush to snatch up parts of Russia’s privatized natural-resource sector in the 1990s, eventually founding the oil and metals conglomerate Renova Group, which is headquartered in Switzerland.

He became for a time Russia’s richest man in 2012, with an estimated fortune of $18 billion, after selling his controlling stake in a joint oil venture with Britain’s BP to the Kremlin-controlled Rosneft. Medvedev named Vekselberg president of the state-funded tech developer Skolkovo Foundation, ostensibly Russia’s answer to Silicon Valley, before his sanctions designation.

Vekselberg was among the Russian business executives close to the Kremlin whose contacts with Donald Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign were investigated by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Vekselberg and Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen met at Trump Tower in New York days before the 2017 inauguration with Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew Intrater, a New York investment manager. Later that month, Cohen signed a lucrative consulting contract with Intrater’s investment firm, Columbus Nova.

U.S. authorities describe Vekselberg as participating with government officials on diplomatic and soft-power activities on behalf of the Kremlin, and he has been active in Russian cultural and philanthropic circles. He is said to own more Fabergé eggs than any other individual, buying nine of the bejeweled treasures from the Forbes family for $900 million in 2004. The return to Russia of the eggs — once prized possessions of the czars and looted after the Bolshevik revolution — was cast as a patriotic gesture, with some of them later displayed at the Kremlin and in St. Petersburg.

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Inside Paul Allen’s Former Yacht on Sale for $90 Million

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The estate of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is offering the sale of his 303-foot-long superyacht , Tatoosh , for a cool $90 million, according to Dirt . If you’re thinking those stats aren’t impressive enough for the billionaire and tech magnate , well, you’d be right. Tatoosh , which is currently the 60th largest yacht worldwide, was just Allen’s secondary vessel. His main yacht, Octopus , sold last year for $325 million and stretches 414 feet long, making it the 20th largest yacht in the world.

As for Tatoosh , the recently-listed vessel was custom-built by German shipyard Nobiskrug in 2000 for fellow American tech mogul Craig McCaw before being bought by Allen the following year for an estimated $100 million. The craft was put up for sale shortly after Allen’s death in 2018, but was taken off the market for an extensive refitting that was completed last year.

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To maintain and staff the superyacht, which will be one of the largest yachts on display during the Monaco Yacht Show later this month, potential new owners will have to be prepared to pay $9 to $10 million per year in addition to the hefty price tag. Tatoosh is being represented by the Monaco-based yachting company Fraser.

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A super yacht owned by Capri Sun juice tycoon Hans Peter Wild crashed into a dock at in Simpson Bay, St. Marten last week.

The 235-foot vessel experienced a computer malfunction before crashing into a wooden jetty and concrete dock, causing significant damage last Wednesday (February 24), Daily Mail reports.

It was unclear whether Wild, 79, was on board at the time of the crash. The juice tycoon is valued at $3.3 billion, according to Forbes .

Footage of the crash showed the turquoise super yacht GO -- which includes a helipad, gym steam room, swimming pool and its own onboard hospital -- slowly travel through the dock, which includes one clip of an onlooker repeatedly saying "oh my God" as the crash happens.

In a separate clip, a witness is heard saying: "It's hitting concrete now. What's going on?"

It has not yet been determined how much it will cost to repair the super yacht or the dock, but a manager for the yacht club expects the process to last several months, Daily Mail reports.

The yacht's captain was attempting to leave the Simpson Bay Lagoon when the crash took place at 10:15 a.m. on February 24. St. Maarten Yacht Club was been closed in response to the incident.

No injuries were reported during the crash.

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Set on four acres, the 11-bedroom spread with Red Mountain views was bought by casino tycoon Steve Wynn.

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Home of the week: a 9-bedroom manhattan residence in one of new york’s most sought-after buildings, craig ellwood’s revamped casa kuderna is up for grabs in l.a. at $5.5 million.

The Red Mountain residence offers 11 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms spread across 21,476 square feet of living space. In addition to the main house, the property features a guest home and a heated outdoor pool.

The chalet-style abode was built in 2006 after the land was acquired for $7 million in September 2003, according to  The Denver Post . It came to market for the first time in July 2009, selling for $43 million, and then former Canadian hockey player Patrick Dovigi snapped it up in 2021 for $72.5 million.

Wynn, the art-collecting founder of Las Vegas’ Bellagio and Wynn resort casinos,  is a well-known trophy home collector who maintains homes across the country. He has successfully bought and sold several homes in Palm Beach over the last four or five years but has had some trouble selling his homes in New York and Los Angeles. After slashing the price from $90 million to $65 million and still getting no takers, he took his 11,000-square-foot Manhattan penthouse off the market late last year, and earlier this year he re-priced Villa Lulu, his Beverly Hills home, at $65 million, far below the original asking price of $135 million but still well above the $48 million he paid.

Only about two dozen homes have ever sold for $100 million in the United States,  WSJ  reports, with the bulk of them being in Manhattan, Miami, Palm Beach, and Los Angeles, including Malibu. And now, with Wynn’s record-shattering purchase, Aspen has officially joined the big leagues.

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Lauren Sanchez Is Assigned a Reporter—These Are the Multimillion-Dollar Homes To Stake Out

There are power couples ( Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce , Beyoncé  and JAY Z , Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck , to name a few), and then there are power couples.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are in a power category of their own thanks to the hundreds of billions of dollars at their disposal.

Recognizing this dynamic, the Daily Beast recently announced it was seeking a reporter to cover Sanchez exclusively . Of course, we began pondering the many mansions where she could be coming and going. At this point in time, it’s a worldwide guessing game of “Where in the world is Lauren Sanchez?”

The former broadcast journalist, pilot, and media personality certainly has an array of choices.

Bezos and his former wife, MacKenzie Scott , divorced in 2019. Since then, he and Sanchez have been busy scooping up luxe properties from Maui to Miami . The new crop of homes is in addition to the ones he owned during his marriage.

Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, has a fortune that’s estimated at a mind-boggling $199 billion. As of 2019, Bezos was among the largest landowners in the United States.

Let’s take a peek into their extensive, exclusive, and very expensive property collection. We can’t say whether you’ll see Sanchez, but at least we know where to look.

A few mansions in Florida

The couple recently made news with a series of splashy purchases in South Florida. Given Bezos’ net worth, it’s no surprise he tends to buy in bulk.

He and Sanchez picked up three pricey properties on exclusive Indian Creek Island in the Miami area.

After buying two adjoining homes for a reported $147 million, he dropped an additional $90 million on a third home on the isle.

According to Bloomberg , Bezos plans to live in the third home while he razes the first two.

The enclave known as the Billionaire Bunker has only 41 homes. Bezos’ neighbors on the isle include Tom Brady and Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner .

As Bezos stocks up in Florida, he leaves the state of Washington further in his rearview mirror. The Pacific Northwest was where he kept his official residence for decades and where he founded the company that made him billions of dollars.

The world’s second-richest man announced his decision to become a Florida man last year .

Record-breaking buy in Beverly Hills

Over on the West Coast, the couple also made waves with a big buy. Bezos reportedly purchased the Warner Estate in Beverly Hills from media mogul David Geffen in an off-market deal in 2020. He spent $165 million on the legacy mansion, a California record at the time.

While we wondered if perhaps the billionaire had overpaid , his decision to buy the 9-acre estate was calculated.

According to the Hollywood Reporter , Bezos toured some 40 residences in Greater Los Angeles before engaging the owner of the spread he eventually purchased. The two apparently dispensed with listing agents, opting to negotiate a deal aboard Geffen’s yacht.

The spread in Beverly Hills includes the 13,600-square-foot, Georgian-style mansion from the 1930s, numerous guesthouses, a tennis court, and a nine-hole golf course.

Geffen picked up the place in 1990 for $47.5 million and embarked on an extensive remodel. It’s a good guess that Bezos might also add his own touches to the estate filled with Hollywood history.

While married, he and Scott owned two Beverly Hills properties worth a reported $55 million. Postdivorce, Scott donated those homes to an affordable housing charity.

Wowie in Maui

After the wheeling and dealing in SoCal, surely the couple needed to take a break. Where better than Hawaii?

In 2021, Bezos and Sanchez picked up a 14-acre estate on Maui . The off-market transaction was said to be in the neighborhood of $78 million.

Known as the Carter Estate, the property is located on the island’s southern shore. And, like the L.A. transaction, this deal was also off-market.

The property includes a 4,500-square-foot main house, a 1,700-square-foot guesthouse, and a 700-square-foot pool. The holding encompasses seven parcels, including a fish pond with a white-sand beach.

Local agents praised the property’s privacy and seclusion, key factors in Bezos’ big buy.

Empire state of mind

In 2019, Bezos made a real estate play in the Big Apple , picking up a penthouse, along with two apartments below it, for about $80 million .

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Located downtown in a historic building converted into condos, the three-floor abode is the building’s crown jewel: It measures 10,000 square feet, and it has 5,730 square feet of terraces on all four sides.

Along with five bedrooms and 5.5 baths, it has a ballroom and a library. One floor holds an observatory, and there are views of the Empire State building.

In 2020, Bezos dropped an additional $16 million for a fourth apartment in the building.

Washington, DC, digs

The owner of the Washington Post also keeps a mansion in the nation’s capital. He picked up the enormous residence in 2017 for a reported $19 million. The compound, a former museum, has two buildings, a chauffeur’s residence, and a garage. It totals nearly 27,000 square feet.

The posh property is located in the Kalorama neighborhood, where plenty of DC power players have called home , including Michelle and Barack Obama and Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump .

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Washington compound

Bezos had a home in Medina, WA , since 1998, when he picked up one house, and then a second, with his ex-wife. He wound up with more than $60 million worth of real estate on the shores of Lake Washington. In 2010, the then-couple embarked on a reported $28 million renovation of the property.

Bezos has since relocated to Florida, so don’t expect to see Sanchez traipsing around Puget Sound anytime soon.

Texas ranch

Bezos’ West Texas ranch , which he purchased in 2004, accounts for the majority of his land holdings, reported to be somewhere around 400,000 acres.

The property is the site of Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, and was the setting for a Vogue feature on Sanchez. The property apparently includes an underground, 10,000-year clock and an Astronaut Village.

Sanchez told the magazine that she’s planning to go to space aboard one of Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket flights.

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The two also spend time on their yacht, Koru. It’s apparently where Bezos proposed to Sanchez and was the setting for an at-sea engagement party that included the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Bill Gates .

Claudine Zap covers celebrity real estate, housing trends, and unique home stories. Her work has appeared on Yahoo, New York Post, and SFGATE.

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