2. Bill & Melinda Gates’ Washington Pad – Price: $123.5 million
Bill Gates has named his Washington home Xanadu 2.0, and it’s taken him 7 years to be happy with it and its many renovations. It’s not quite at the top of the most expensive celebrity homes list though.
Gates bought the property for $2 million in 1988 and has transformed it over the years. It’s climate controlled, has its own personal beach, a 200-person ballroom, 24 bathrooms, a music system that you can hear while doing the front crawl in his pool and a whole room dedicated to trampolines.
The library alone is astonishing. It measures 2,100 square foot, and contains a 16th Century Leonardo da Vinci manuscript which Gates purchased for $30.8 million. So Bill Gates has a document in his library worth more than the houses owned by most of the other celebs on this list.
