Paul Allen

Paul Allen shelled out $7,500,000 to buy this Thurston Estate which was previously owned by Lorrin P. Thurston.

Location: The property is located in Hawaiian hideaway behind the gates of an exclusive oceanfront community in Kailua-Kona, HI.

Paul Allen’s immense love for his birth-place made him invest billions of dollars to make himself an expensive mansion in the outskirts of his hometown Seattle.

Location: The mansion is located across a narrow part of the Lake from Seattle’s Seward Park, United States

Accommodation: This massive estate is spread over 10 acres and comprise a 10,000-square-foot mansion, 505 feet of Lake Washington waterfront and a National Basketball Association regulation-sized gym. It features luxury amenities like 25 bedrooms and 28 baths. The estate is noted for the large catamaran that Paul uses as a floating helipad and for the waterfront concert hall. Continuous renovations have made it hard to put this mansion under any price tag, however conservative estimates put it at around USD 20 million .

Neighborhood: The beauty  of the city has compelled many celebrities to own properties in Seattle. Stars like Bruce McCaw and Khloe Kardashian owns home there.

Location: The mansion is located in the fashion city Cote d’ Azur of France

Accommodation: Paul Allen owns this mansion which is spread over 80,000 square foot. This classical mansion features nineteen bedrooms, a bowling street, several kitchen areas, and eating areas with a full-fledged cinema. It is a perfect blend of all the luxury features and classical architecture.

Neighborhood: The villa became a favorite of paparazzis when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt rented the home on their visit to France for Cannes film festival. 

McCartney’s Peasmarsh home near Rye in East Sussex, England is a 1,500 acre estate, where he spent much of his married life with wife Linda.

Location: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen owns a beautiful ranch in the western side of the Grand Tetons, U.S

Accommodation: The ranch is constructed using high quality wood and designed in classic western style, the main lodge features five-bedroom and offers stunning views. Paul is among the growing list of billionaires who are renting out their not so used properties to earn some extra money, which they have in abundance anyways. The rates vary around $2,900 per night in high season.

Neighborhood: Carbon Beach is also known as the Billionaire's Beach" where Hollywood moguls David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg are owners.

Paul Allen bought this large property in 1996 for around $8,000,000. after buying the estate the first thing that Paul Allen did was to dismantle and move several of the buildings to other locations on the peninsula in order to make way for his own granite, glass, and cedar compounds designed by another of the Pacific Northwest's well known modernists, Harold Moldstad.

Location: Paul Allen also owns another piece of real estate in the San Juan's known as the Sperry Peninsula located on Lopez Island.

Paul Allen who owns investments in more than 40 high-tech and multi-media companies and properties across the globe also owns a condo in the luxurious location of Beverly Hills.

Location: The huge condo is located in  Beverly Hills ,Los Angeles

Accommodation: Paul Allen's bulging property portfolio includes another 12,952 square foot Mediterranean style mansion in Beverly Hills, CA. The mansion has a massive underground garage, along with very obvious luxuries like pool and tennis court. The mansion was built in the early 1990s and was sold by writer/producer/director John Landis who is perhaps best known for writing and directing Michael Jackson's Thriller video.

Neighborhood: Beverly Hill is one of the most talked about location when it comes to celebrity homes. Many stars such as Pamela Anderson, Elvis Presley, David Beckham and others owns luxurious properties in the same area. 

Location: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen owns a beautiful ranch in the western side of the Grand Tetons, U.S

Accommodation: The ranch is constructed using high quality wood and designed in classic western style, the main lodge features five-bedroom and offers stunning views. Paul is among the growing list of billionaires who are renting out their not so used properties to earn some extra money, which they have in abundance anyways. The rates vary around $2,900 per night in high season.

In what has been speculated as a mirror of the mid-90s Microsoft expansion, it's co-founder Paul Allen who seems to be on a real-estate buying rage! The latest property on his purchase list has been from Wade Thompson's widow, Angela Thompson. The property was unlisted but information from A. Laurence Kaiser, proprietor for Key Ventures, shows that though the home is smaller than other units in the building, it cost Mr.Allen a good $25 million. The building was built in 1907 and became a co-op in 1949.

Location: The penthouse is located at 4 East, 66th Street on the Upper east side of Manhattan in New York, USA.

Accommodation: The absence of listing information makes it difficult to state precisely the accommodation available in the home. However, this much is speculated by Mr.Kaiser that the home probably has 7 bedrooms and at least 5 -6 bathrooms.

Features: The building as such is very impressive and handsome with a large cornice. The awesome entrance portals are flanked by columns which have been topped with pediments on the side street. Images from Google Maps show that the penthouse has a spacious and large terrace with an impressive roofline.

This penthouse has been shaped as a barbell and is full of over-sized windows. The wrap-around terrace surrounding the home offers panoramic views of the city and Central Park.

Neighborhood: The building has been home to many big-time celebrities and thus has been in the news on several occasions. Socialite Veronica Hearst had owned the 6th floor residence before it went into foreclosure. Pharma bigwig Howard Solomon, director of Duetsche Bank Kevin Parker, hedge fund hero Daniel Nir and ex-CEO of Bear Stearns, Ace Greenberg are the residents here.

Paul Allen owns this 416 foot yacht, which held the title of the biggest yacht in the world when it was delivered. Currently, the Octopus stands as the 12th largest yacht in the world. The exterior of the yacht were designed by Espen Naval Architects and it was built by well known German shipbuilders Lürssen in Bremen and HDW in Kiel. Paul Allen likes to hold annual Cannes Film Festival parties on his yacht, which invites celebrities from all over the world. His guest itinerary includes Bar Refaeli, Jane Fonda, Jodie Foster, Paul Haggis and Ryan Gosling.

Features & Toys

Custom built to suit the preferences o fits owner, the yacht’s interior has been designed by Jonathan Quinn Barnett. The main attraction of the yacht other than its plush VIP suits, pool, Jacuzzi and a state of the art recording studio is the plethora of toys, which come along with it. It has two helicopters, seven boats and a 10 man submarine which can hold eight persons for upto two weeks underwater. Plus, the package also includes a remote controlled vehicle for crawling on the ocean floor.

Accommodation

Octopus offers accommodation for up to 26 guests in 41 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 57 members of crew onboard to ensure a relaxed cruising experience. 

Specifications

Octopus has a cruising speed of 17 knots, max speed of 20 knots and a range of 8000 nm from her 850000-litre fuel tanks. 

Tatoosh is another mega yacht owned by Allen. It is 303- feet in length and has five decks. Named after an island in the San Juans, she is known for its lavish spread of luxury which can put even the most extravagant facility to shame. It was handed to Allen by fellow billionaire Craig McCaw, who also passed on with it the America's Cup legacy. On this HDW-Nobiskrg 301-footer, Allen and his family have the entire top deck to themselves. The owner's suite includes a full-width bedroom, two other staterooms, a communal family room, an office, gymnasium and an observation lounge above. Six guest staterooms, panoramic lounge and dining saloons and a cinema are positioned on the lower decks. Paul Allen currently has up it for sale with a price tag of about $163,000,000.

At 199 feet, this is the smallest yacht owned by Paul Allen. The Meduse was built in the country of Netherlands and designed using traditional interpretations of Mcmillen from New York . This compact superyacht has the capacity to sleep overnight a maximum of 12 passengers and 15 members of crew. Fast transportation is not a problem as she comes with a helicopter pad. Back in 2001 Meduse was the biggest yacht owned by Paul Allen. He used it many times to jam up with his band in the onboard recording studio. Mister Allen wanted to sell the boat for $52,500,000 however, it’s not clear if the yacht has been sold or is still in his possession.

Mig-29 is a great addition to Paul Allen’s most amazing collections of toys for boys. He purchased it from the Vulcan Warbirds Company. It is a two-Seater Soviet-designed fighter that proudly served with Russia and the Ukrainian Air Force before coming to the U.S. for restoration.

The latest plaything in the billionaire's playground is a fully operational 40-foot yellow submarine for which he has paid a huge sum of $12 million. Allen's craze for these gorgeous water beasts might be the reason that his net worth is only a third to that of Bill Gates. 

Paul Allen is a music fanatic. Not onlly he maintains a complete band, but also has a dedicated recording studio in each of his yachts and homes. He jams up with his band regularly and treats others to rocking sessions of music on his yacht. The Experience Music Project is a brainchile Mr. Allen and is a haven for any music afficionadao, where he has displayed a collection of antique guitars and other rare music collectibles. 

His interest in space and extra terrestrial conquests has led him to invest million of dollars in the SpaceshipOne project, which was the first succesful suborbital spacecraft. Designed by the illustrious designer, Burt Rutan,  SpaceShipOne climbed to an altitude of 115,090 m and was the first privately funded effort to successfully put a civilian in suborbital space. 

He also provided the search for extra-terrestrial life a big boost when he invested $11.5 milllion to construct an array of ultra powerful telescopes, aptly named "The Allen Telescope Array", which is installed in SETI complex. 

Paul Allen is one of the most avid art collector in the world. His art colllection is reportedly worth more than $250 million and includes works of Picasso, Montelo and other famous artists. Much was not known about his collection until he had a change of heart and decided to give public a glimpse of what all he had accumulated at his home using his humongous amount of wealth. 

He also has a assortment of flying planes dating back to the world war era, which he has put up for public display under the name of The Flying Heritage. 

Allen owns the amazing Porsche 959, which is recognized as the most technologically advanced road-going sports car ever built. It can reach 0-100 mph in 8.6 sec. It has a top speed of 190 mph.

Paul Allen owns a Mazda B series pickup truck which has 2.2L 85 hp I4 engine, and a horsepower of 85. It also features the 4 speed automatic overdrive.

He is the man behind the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. It is a private foundation that is located in Seattle, Washington. They work with the main objective of transforming individual lives and strengthening communities by fostering innovation, creating knowledge, and promoting social progress.

Paul Allen's love for art is truly depicted in his collection of paintings. The Kiss is a 1962 creation, a significant comic strip painting, for which Roy Lichtenstein earned instant fame.

Paul Allen owns a vintage collection of Darth Vadar's helmet. Darth Vadar is popularly known as Anakin Skywalker, who acts as a central character in the Star Wars saga. These helmets are known for its clean face and sharp cheeks.

Paul Allen purchased this painting in 2001. It is created by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Paul Allen is known for his fine-art holdings. It is a very special kind of painting of the renowned painter named, Monet.This is a completely new style of painting that appeared in Paris during the late 1860's.

Jimmy Hendrix is a renowned American an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. Paul Allen' s love for music can be clearly seen through his collection of Jimmy Hendrix guitars which the star has used during his career.

The Flying heritage is a wonderful collection of finely crafted aircrafts made by distinguished design bureaus with leading technologies of the 1930s and 1940s. The collection emphasize on the combat aircraft from World War II. This unique collection includes the rare survivors who were researched, hunted down and even recovered from former battlegrounds and airfields. Paul G. Allen’s passion for aviation and history made him to acquire, preserve, and even share them with the public these iconic warriors and workhorses, many of which are the last of their kind.

It was not untill Paul Allen displayed a part of his $250  million art collection that many knew he was the anonymous buyer of this painting, sold at an auction of Sotheby's. He got it for a whopping $39.2 million, which is a record for any French artist. A creation of Paul Gauguin, the painting depicts  The 1899 Gauguin work depicts three topless Polynesian women, one of them breast- feeding a baby.

It was coupled alongside Kenji Yanobe's Atom Suit Project:Desert at the art display. This obscure pairing is the brain-child of renowned Impressionist expert and art historian Paul Hayes Tucker, who was the curator at the exhibition.