Amazon founder pays $ 23 million in cash for his new home in Washington

Jeff Bezos, the head and founder of online distribution giant Amazon, has bought for $ 23 million what could be the largest private residence in the US capital, The Washington Post reported Thursday. owns, claimed he was the anonymous buyer of the former Washington Textile Museum, a 2,500-square-meter structure with a 650-square-meter garden. The property includes two historic residences that were used decades ago by the museum and that real estate agencies They had put up for sale, suggesting that they could be enabled as an embassy or as a private school. Obama's neighbor and Ivanka TrumpBezos, one of the richest men in the world, with a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine at 70,000 million dollars, would have paid Apparently, Bezos would intend to maintain his primary residence in Seattle (Northwest), where Amazon's headquarters are, and to use his nu This property is used as a base for when he visits the capital with his wife and four children, or for receptions, according to the Washington Post, which cites "a person familiar with the transaction." The millionaire would have as neighbors, at a distance of five blocks, to the family of President Obama and the daughter of President-elect, Ivanka Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner.