Billionaire Toys

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As the hedge fund manager and founder of SAC Capital Advisor, Steven Cohen is worth $11.4 billion. He has spent $137.5 million on de Kooning's Woman III (the second most expensive painting ever sold), and just recently dumped $110 million for a Jasper Johns. It's a good thing this shark suspended in formaldehyde was cheap - $8 million- because the giant fish has been dealing with some serious deterioration issues and has now been pickled in alcohol. Paul Allen - WWII Planes

Billionaire hedge fund titan Paul Tudor Jones II has sixteen automobiles (seriously) registered under his name, according to Greenwich Time citing the town's tax rolls. His hedge fund Tudor Investment Corp. has one of the Connecticut town's four Maybachs -- an ultra-luxury car maker -- registered under its name. The fund's 2008 Maybach is valued at $230,000 making it the town's 28th most expensive vehicle, the report said.

Roman Abramovich's upcoming 540-foot Eclipse may soon become the biggest, but Andrey Melnichenko's 394-foot

There are 62 billionaires in Russia and one of them bought Hitler's private Mercedes in 2006 for a sum between $6 million and $15 million.

Bill Gates' home is a 66,000 sq state-of-the-art mansion in Medina, Washington. Though Gates recently lost his #1 richest person in the world spot to Mexico's Carlos Slim Helu, he is still estimated to be worth $53 billion. In 2009, property taxes on his home were reported to be US $1.1 million on a total property value of $147.5 million. Mukesh Ambani - World's Most Expensive Home

Of the 30 surviving Da Vinci scientific journals, the Codex Leicester is the most famous. Gates bought it at a 1994 auction for $30.8 million, making it the most expensive book ever sold. After the purchase, Gates had the notebook digitally scanned and made available as a comprehensive CD-ROM. You can buy the CD for less than $30. Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein - 18th Century Florentine Cabinet

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David Koch - Hot Air Balloon The NYC engineer and businessman is estimated to be worth $19 billion, millions of which he spends on trying to prove climate change is all made up.

David Tepper didnt think his Hamptons house was good enough- so he knocked it down

Dr. Henry T. Nicholas, III is worth $2.3 billion, and at 6 feet 6 inches tall, we're guessing the co-founder of Broadcom must have requested an extra tall ceiling for the sex bunker he was alleged to have built in the basement of his Laguna Hills home.

George Lucas has his own fire brigade

Getty Oil fortune heir Gordon Getty is estimated to be worth $2.4 billion. Using his allowance, he has built the PlumpJack hospitality empire, which includes two restaurants in San Francisco, one in Lake Tahoe, and a Napa Valley winery. Paul Allen - Rose Garden Arena in Portland, Oregon

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Paul Tudor Jones owns a trio of private island

Steve Wynn destroyed Pcasso painting worth $139 million

David Koch paid $17 million for room-duplex

$Larry Ellison, the chief executive of The Oracle, bought this Malibu, Calif. home for $20 million, which is a fraction of the $26 billion he's worth. There is a tennis court and swimming pool on the property, but what makes them particularly impressive is that that section of the backyard is connected to the main house by a cable car that descends a fixed track to the lower level of the terraced property$

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