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The World’s Most Expensive Billionaire Homes

Antilia, Mumbai, India

• Owner: Mukesh Ambani, worth $21.5billion
• Value: upward of $1 billion
• The twenty-seven story, 400,000-square foot skyscraper residence, named after a mythical island in the Atlantic, has six underground levels of parking, three helicopter pads, a ‘health’ level, and reportedly requires about 600 staff to run it. It is the world’s most expensive home far and away with construction costs topping $1 billion.

Villa Leopolda, Villefranche-sur-mer, France

• Owner: Lily Safra, worth $1.2 billion
• Price: 500 million euro ($750 million at the time) in 2008
• King Leopold II reportedly built a series of waterside homes for his many mistresses. This 20-acre estate was valued at 500 million euros in 2008, when Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov attempted to buy it. He eventually pulled out of the deal, forfeiting a 50 million euro deposit.

Fair Field, Sagaponack, N.Y.

• Owner: Ira Rennert, worth $6.5 billion
• Property value: about $248 million, according to 2012 tax assessments
• The industrial billionaire’s hulking 29-bedroom, 39-bath Hamptons compound has not one, but three swimming pools, plus its own power plant on premises.

Kensington Palace Gardens, London, U.K.

• Owner: Lakshmi Mittal, worth $16.5 billion
• Purchase Price: 117 million pounds ($222 million at the time) in 2008
• The steel magnate is believed to own three homes on the high-security street known as Billionaires Row, including a neo-Georgian mansion near the Israeli embassy. The home (not pictured), rumored to have been purchased for Mittal’s son, was sold by hedge fund billionaire Noam Gottesman.

One Hyde Park, London, U.K.

• Owner: Rinat Akhmetov, worth $15.4 billion
• Sale Price: $221 million in 2011
• The world’s most expensive apartment, located in posh Knightsbridge, was purchased by the Ukraine’s richest man. It boasts a staggering 25,000-square feet, bullet proof glass and 24-hour hotel concierge service

Ellison Estate, Woodside, Calif.

• Owner: Larry Ellison, worth $43 billion
• Value: estimated $200 million to construct
• The Oracle founder, arguably the world’s most avid collector of real estate, built his 23-acre Japanese-style estate in 2004 with 10 buildings, a man made lake, a tea house, a bath house and a koi pond. The property is currently assessed at just over $70 million.

Kensington Palace Gardens, London, U.K.

• Owner: Roman Abramovich, worth $10.2 billion
• Purchase Price: 90 million pounds (about $140 million) in 2011
• The Russsian tycoon owns several huge London estates (not pictured), including a Billionaires’ Row mansion. Since purchasing, plans to build a subterranean extension that includes a tennis court, health center and auto museum were approved by the city. He also owns a French Riviera chateau and in 2009 spent a record $90 million on a 70-acre estate on St. Bart’s.

Blossom Estate, Palm Beach, Fla.

• Owner: Ken Griffin, worth $4.1 billion
• Total Purchase Price: nearly $130 million in December 2012
• The hedge fund titan purchased four side-by-side properties totaling eight acres on the ocean. Three lots tout houses while the fourth was already torn down; the entire swath of property was once used as a single estate.

Xanadu 2.0, Seattle, Wash.

• Owner: Bill Gates, worth $67 billion
• Market Value: $120.5 million, according to 2012 tax assessments
• The high-tech Lake Washington complex owned by the world’s second-richest man boasts a pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500- square foot gym and a library with domed reading room
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  Mountain Home Road, Woodside, Calif.
  Owner: reportedly Masayoshi Son, worth $8.6 billion
• Purchase Price: $117.5 million in 2012
• The most expensive home sale on record includes a 9,000-square foot neoclassical house, a 1,117-square foot colonnaded pool house, a detached library, a retreat building, a swimming pool, a tennis court and formal gardens.

Further Lane de Menil, East Hampton, N.Y.

• Owner: Ron Baron, worth $1.6 billion
• Purchase Price: $103 million in 2007
• The investment guru snapped up more than 50 acres of undeveloped oceanfront Hamptons land during the market’s height with the intention of constructing his own home
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  Silicon Valley Mansion, Los Altos Hills, Calif.
  Owner: Yuri Milner, worth $1.1 billion
• Purchase Price: $100 million in 2011
• Bought as a secondary home, the Facebook investor broke records with the recent purchase of a French chateaux-inspired limestone abode that touts indoor and outdoor pools, a ballroom and second-floor living areas that gaze out on San Francisco Bay.

Broken O Ranch, Augusta, Mont.

• Owner: Stanley Kroenke, worth $5 billion
• List Price: $132.5 million
• Purchase Price: undisclosed
• Thanks to state laws, the final sale price of this 124,000-acre operational ranch is undisclosed and unconfirmed. The estate boasts a 10,000-square foot main house with indoor pool, horse stables, nearly 4,500 heads of cattle, extensive water rights, and substantial agricultural capacity for small grain crops and alfalfa hay.

Kensington Palace Gardens, London, U.K.
Owner: Tamara Ecclestone, daughter of Formula One billionaire Bernie Ecclestone

• Purchase Price: 45 million pounds in 2011 (roughly $70 million)
• Estimated Construction Costs:20 million pounds (about $30 million)The heiress has spent an estimated $98.7 million on a 55-room house (not pictured) on Billionaire’s Row factoring in renovations that include a $1 million Amazonian crystal bathtub, a private nightclub, a bowling alley, a subterranean swimming pool, a beauty salon, a dog spa and a car lift.