Jeff Bezos has added finishing touches to his $175 million mega-mansion in Beverly Hills, which boasts a reef-themed swimming pool and full-size outdoor tennis courts.
Aerial footage of the Amazon founder’s sprawling estate reveals recent updates in the ongoing construction process spanning the past four years, nevertheless, the home still seems to be a work in progress.
Recent updates include the installation of private basketball and tennis courts, as well as elaborately designed tropical themed swimming pools.
Bezos, whose staggering net worth nearly reaches 200 billion, acquired the massive 10-acre property, previously owned by former Warner Bros. president Jack Warner, in early 2020.
The construction came to a short halt in April 2023, when Bezos failed to complete a planning application for a new ‘game court fence,’ but resumed shortly after in May.
It is made up of three-story main house, a guest house, gym, a pergola and a security guard house.
But in April of last year, it was revealed that the expansion of the mega mansion had been put on hold indefinitely after Bezos failed to complete a planning application for a new ‘game court fence.’
Bezos had planned to extend the property with a new pool house, powder room and retaining walls.
An initial application was granted in 2021 but Bezos submitted a new request to add a ‘game court fence with lighting’ in January this year, but it was denied because the paperwork was incomplete.
The original application asked to add around 1,000 square feet to the 28,000-square-foot mansion. However, within just one month, construction resumed.
The mega mansion is just one part of Bezos’s wide ranging real-estate profile, thought to be worth $600million, as he splits his time between properties with Sanchez.
The purchase set a real estate record in Los Angeles before it was beaten by Marc Andreessen who paid $177 million for a seven-acre Malibu estate the following year.
The record was previously held by media executive Lachlan Murdoch who paid $150 million for a Bel-Air estate known for appearing in the 1960s TV show ‘The Beverly Hillbillies.’
The same year he forked out $10 million for the house next door.
The mega mansion forms part of Bezos’s wide ranging real-estate profile, thought to be worth $600 million.
He splits his time between the homes with girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, 53.
He owns four separate apartments inside an art-deco block on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Three of the apartments inside the complex at 25 Central Park West were bought back in 2019 for a reported sum of $80 million.
He then shelled out $16 million this spring for a fourth unit at the height of the pandemic in 2020.
The 1912 building features a fitness center, yoga studio, treatment room, playroom, game room and screening room.
In 2016 he also dropped $23 million on a mega mansion in Washington DC three years after he bought the Washington Post.
The property – which sits in the upmarket Kalorama neighborhood – was formerly the Textile Museum.
It sits in the same neighborhood where the Obamas and Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have lived.
Bezos – the third richest man in the world – spent three years expanding the property which had 11 bedrooms and 25 bathrooms at the time of its completion.
The mogul stepped down as Amazon chairman in 2021.
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The three- bedroom, four-bathroom home, originally built by architect Sumner Spalding back in 1930, was last listed back in 2018 for the sum of $5.45 million.
Since then, the property has undergone extensive renovations, completed by the design team who also worked on Justin Bieber’s Beverly Hills pad.
Listing photos taken prior to the makeover show the light and airy home features a large kitchen and several spacious living areas complete with original fireplaces.
