One of the biggest unknowns about the Gates divorce: who will get the $ 150 million mega mansion “Xanadu 2.0”?

With a brief statement Bill Gates (65) announced a family novelty that traveled the world in minutes. After 27 happy years, her marriage to Melinda (56 years old), the woman with whom he was able to build the technological empire that made them the richest people on the planet for years, until this scepter was taken by Jeff Bezos, another leader in innovation and technology.

As a result of this union, they were born Jennifer, 24 years, Rory john, 21 and Phoebe adele, 18. doorsIn his press release, he asked to protect his family and asked for a moment of calm for himself and his family.

His fortune, according to Forbes, is evaluated at 130 billion dollars. Many of those dollars correspond to the multiple properties the two have acquired over the nearly three decades of being together. One of them is known as Xanadu 2.0 and it was – until today – the main residence of the two in Medina, Washington. Its valuation is between 130 and 150 million dollars.

The main plot of the property was purchased in 1988 for two million and took the doors seven years and an investment of $ 63 million to leave it as they dreamed it. It is in front of the Lake Washington, at Medina in the northern state of the same name as the capital. Its name is due to its passion for one of the greatest films in world cinematography: Citizen Kane.

It has 6200 square meters and was used for its construction half a million planks of wood Made of 500 year old Douglas fir. In total, 300 workers worked in construction, 100 of whom were electricians, so the mansion was also a technological center. At such a level there is the use of technology in the house that each guest can change the art on their walls with a device given to them upon entering the house. With it you can also calibrate the temperature of the environments in which they are located.

If one of them is a little hungry, there will be no problem: it has six kitchens with which a guest can make a sandwich at any time.

The swimming pool has a length of 18 meters with a building that simultaneously serves as a changing room and a gym and a rest room of about 360 square meters. It also has an exercise room, an entertainment room and a room for special receptions with a capacity of 150 people. In total, it also has 24 bathrooms. Including 10 fully equipped.

Voracious reader, he could not miss the Megamansion Doors a place to read. In the construction, he left space for a 200 square meter library, with a domed ceiling and two secret passages. Other amenities: private cinema for 20 people, sports fields, green, Guest house of 180 square meters, garage for 23 cars, artificial river with salmon and trout, a special Caribbean-type beach and a tree that makes its weakness and monitors 24 hours a day.

No one knows if the couple have already split their holdings and on what terms one of the most successful marriages of the past 30 years will end. And a doubt that flies away: Who will get Xanadu 2.0?

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