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- Tech billionaire Darwin Deason has spent astir $86 cardinal creating his ain individual Versailles.
- It took years to decorativeness nan Sand Castle, his Pacific Ocean-front property successful La Jolla, California.
- Now fresh to move on, Deason has listed it for a perchance record-breaking sum: $108 million.
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Darwin Deason is poised to break a record.
The tech billionaire has listed his opulent property overlooking nan Pacific Ocean successful La Jolla, California, for $108 million.
If it sells for moreover adjacent to that price, it will much than double nan San Diego County record, group by private-equity billionaire Egon Durban, who spent $44.1 cardinal connected a spot successful 2023.
In 2009, aft Deason sold his company, Affiliated Computer Services, to Xerox for $6.4 billion, he spent astir $26 cardinal connected nan location and a neighboring parcel of land, according to nan Wall Street Journal, which first reported the listing.
Over astir six years, nan Journal said, Deason spent astir $60 cardinal turning nan tons into a sandy-colored, balcony-laden 13,000-square-foot mansion.
The billionaire was inspired by nan French Palace of Versailles and Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, a five-star edifice successful nan South of France that is simply a favourite of celebrities. The house's ornate specifications see sparkling chandeliers, gold-accented ceilings, mosaics, marble floors, and ancient statues.
Deason chiefly uses nan 10-bedroom property, located astatine 1900 Spindrift Drive and dubbed nan Sand Castle, arsenic a picnic retreat. Based successful Dallas, he has different picnic homes successful Texas and Mexico, arsenic good arsenic a yacht. Deason, 84, is worthy $1.3 cardinal arsenic of October 23 and has 3 children, according to Forbes.
"In nan history of La Jolla, location has ne'er been and will ne'er beryllium different spot built connected nan waterfront for illustration nan Sand Castle," listing agents Brett Dickinson and Ross Clark, of Compass, told Business Insider via email.
Take a look inside.
The spot contains a seven-bedroom main House and a three-bedroom impermanent location inspired by Versailles’ Le Petit Trianon.
The main location has a two-story introduction hall, a wraparound terrace, and an oval-shaped eating room that seats 16 nether a 19th-century crystal chandelier.
Fireplaces passim nan main location were imported from France.
Throughout nan location are civilization mosaics by New Ravenna, a Virginia tile shaper that is among nan apical successful nan country.
There are 10 bedrooms. The superior chamber suite features its ain oceanfront terrace, backstage study, and abstracted his-and-her bathrooms.
Nearly each portion of furnishings successful nan location was custom-made.
There are 18- and 24-karat golden specifications passim nan mansion, which has 14 afloat bathrooms and 3 half-bathrooms.
A nautical-themed barroom is simply a motion to Deason's yacht, Apogee, according to nan New York Post.
The barroom has walnut finishings, onyx marble, and 18th-century mermaid statues.
The mansion besides has a excavation and a fittingness center.
The excavation is lined pinch bluish Thassos marble tiles, according to Bloomberg.
The mansion has 2 cabanas: 1 for men and 1 for women.
The Sand Castle location besides has a beachfront kitchen.
An elevator whisks residents and guests down to nan backstage beach, which is elevated 10 feet supra nan ground.
For nan backstage beach, Deason imported soft achromatic soil from Augusta National Golf Club, which hosts nan Masters tourney each year. He told nan Journal he spent $40,000 connected nan soil alone.
The listing agents said that nan Sand Castle's civilization oversea wall and nonstop formation entree could not beryllium replicated coming fixed nan existent authorities building standards.
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