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Lifestyle of rich and famous: Bill Gates

If Forbes is compiling one of their Wealthiest People lists, you know he’s going to be on it. The co-founder of Microsoft dropped out of Harvard to start his own computer software company with Paul Allen — and has been laughing his way to the bank ever since.

He is known for..

Gates bought this oil painting (Lost on the Grand Banks by Winslow Homer) in 1998 for US $36 million, making it the most expensive American painting ever sold back then.

One of the fastest street-legal production cars, the Porsche 959 is a collector’s prize. The ‘Gates 959’ was famously stored for 13 years at the Port of Seattle, till regulations were relaxed.

The Codex Leicester is a 72-page notebook, filled with Leonardo da Vinci’s handwritten musings and theories, which Gates bought for US $30.8 million in 1994. It is the most expensive book ever sold.

Bill first met his wife Melinda in 1987 and the pair married in a lavish US $1 million ceremony in 1994 in Hawaii.