Real Estate
Billionaire Microsoft Co-Founder Buys $27M Atherton Mansion
With an eleven figure net worth, $27 million is pocket change.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has purchased a $27M home in Atherton, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
In an article posted online, writer Nathan Donato-Weinstein says paperwork closed on the 22,000 square foot property November 12.
The Pursuitist has a gallery of stunning images from the mansion, and mentions the home "features walls of glass, vaulted ceilings, six bedrooms, four powder rooms, a spa, a home movie theater and seven fireplaces. There is also a detached guest house with two bedrooms and a kitchen."
Allen, whose net worth is nearly $16 billion according to Forbes, co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates but left in the early 1980's. He is still a majority stockholder.
Allen is 60.
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