Hidden hideaways for billionaire
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Loading...If a man’s home is his castle, a private island is his kingdom. Here’s a sampling of some billionaire-owned private islands, from pristine secluded havens.
St. Phillips Island, S.C.
Ted Turner and family and friends have enjoyed sailing, fishing and entertaining for more than 35 years on St. Phillips, on the South Carolina coast. The pristine island, boasts 70 acres of long, white sandy beaches stretching along the Atlantic Ocean. At the moment, 4,680 acres property is up for sale at a price of $23.8 million.
Necker Island, British Virgin Islands
The 74 acres of Caribbean Eden in the British Virgin Islands is owned by Sir Richard Branson since 1978. He has transformed the island into a luxurious resort. Rates for arrivals in 2016 begin at $16,460 per couple for a four night stay in the Love Temple; $29,960 per couple for 7 nights.
Robins Island, NY
Sometimes the idea to buy an island begins with a dream. Louis Moore Bacon spotted Robins Island as a young 20-something-year-old working on a charter fishing boat in the area. Years later, in 1993, then a Wall Street trader, Bacon bought the more than 400 unspoiled acres of forest, beaches and bluffs off the coast of Long Island, some 80 miles from Manhattan, for $11 million to be used as a family retreat.
Sampson Cay, The Bahamas
Some billionaires buy islands and open them to the public. Others do the exact opposite, like John Malone, who bought Sampson Cay in The Bahamas. The property consists of 365 small islands, an archipelago that begins 35 miles southeast of Nassau. The resort has five villas, a restaurant and a marina, but it was taken out of commercial use in August 2013 and will not reopen for business; Sampson Cay will be Malone’s private Bahamian paradise to enjoy with family and friends.
Laucala Island, Fiji
Wild orchids; deserted, white, sandy beaches; and “endless jungle” are just a few of the South Pacific delights on Laucala, a seven-square-mile private island refuge turned resort owned by Austrian energy-drink tycoon Dietrich Mateschitz. The billionaire co- founder of Red Bull bought the Fijian island n the early 2000s and has since created a tropical hideaway offering up “unparalleled levels of luxury and privacy".
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