“Nearly five years after the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs, his famous billionaire’s rivalry with Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been reignited in Wellington, Florida, through his widow and daughter,” Jose Lambiet reports for The Daily Mail.
“As Gates completed the purchase of an entire street in Florida’s equestrian capital in June, Jobs’ widow bought a sprawling property across from Gates’ guard-gate, the Daily Mail Online has learned exclusively,” Lambiet reports. “Laurene Powell Jobs, a former investment banker who married Jobs in 1991 then had three children with the father of the iPhone, quietly bought a 3.5-acre ranch on Quarter Horse Trail in Wellington.”
“According to records, she paid $15.3 million – cash, of course. ‘She was looking around here for a while,’ said developer Stuart Roffman,” Lambiet reports. “‘She came to visit one of my other properties. She wanted something where her and Steve’s daughter Eve could practice horse jumping. She ended up not buying mine but she did get the one near Gates.'”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3689123/Steve-Jobs-widow-buys-15million-ranch-Florida-just-weeks-tech-rival-Bill-Gates-completed-purchase-entire-street-TOWN-daughters-compete-elite-equestrian-competitions.html#ixzz4EPG718z9
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Lambiet reports, “Indeed, Gates’ daughter Jennifer, 20, and Eve Jobs, 19, have been rivals in several of the country’s show-jumping arenas and competed in Wellington this winter at the Winter Equestrian Festival.”
Read more, and see all of the photos, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: You’d think $15.3 million would get you a decent kitchen. Let the renovations commence!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
I am single. Or is it still too soon?
3.5 acre “Ranch”? That’s a mighty small spread, pardner.
Laurene would never have done that if Steve was still here.
(tongue in cheek)
At least now she can buy some furniture.
Why would someone who lives in Palo Alto want to spend money or time in Florida?
Florida above Miami is Mississippi with a slightly better climate. And Gators. And Hurricanes. And Rick Scott as Governor .
Rednecks to the North, Cubans to the South and gators in the swamp in-between.
Escaping California’s punitive taxes, perhaps?
Many folks who make significant incomes are moving out of California. And you can’t blame them. Texas and Florida are popular destinations.
The California exodus to Texas is reflected in market-based, one-way 26-foot U-Haul truck rental prices.
Torrance, CA to Plano, TX: $1555
Plano, TX to Torrance, CA: $1,011
Los Angeles, CA to Dallas, TX: $1517
Dallas TX to Los Angeles: $985
The cost of a one-way U-Haul truck leaving California for Texas is much more than the cost to rent that same truck going from Texas to California, suggesting that there are many more trucks and people leaving California for Texas than vice-versa.
Anywhere between British Columbia and California, Hawaii or Australia north of Brisbane. Florida? Ha..Ha..Ha…a waste of money at any price.
To get away from progressive control-freaks with their high taxes and regulations and an H1-B invasion from India and China.
It is home to the equestrian horse jumping capital of the US if not the world. Ask Bruce Springsteen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Springsteen or Bill Gates http://www.businessinsider.com/daughters-of-bill-gates-and-steve-jobs-compete-on-horseback-2015-10
What does it sound like when you loudly buy a 3.5 acre ranch?
Trump
Florida? I suppose Florida is better than California despite being a hurricane magnet.
Florida? a waste of money at any price.
15.3 million is a price, actually.
California: fires, floods, earthquakes, and Proposition 13. Yea…
I’ll take Florida over that any day.
Um, you DO realize Prop 13 helps homeowners, right??? I guess not.
And drought: Year after year of it
I’m not single, but, is she looking??? 😉
I liberal the condemning of Florida – from people that have no clue about tax shelters.
Steve always produced better product than Gates and based on appearance of daughters, he was consistent.
… That’s nice. But it’s going to be under water, eventually. Try a higher elevation Mrs. Jobs.
$13.5M to “practice horse jumping”.
$15.3 would get her a lot more land around Archer City, Texas (home of Larry McMurtry), than a piddling 3.5 acres of Florida. Pffft.
Come on, Mrs. Jobs, we can find you a nice spread around these parts.
It’s quite amazing how incapable people appear to read the linked article, and comprehend the reasons.
Meanwhile, I bought $15.30 in potato chips and ranch dip.