Rush Limbaugh’s widow, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, has sold her husband’s long-standing Florida estate of greater than 20 years for $155 million.
This is a record for the Palm Beach area, which has seen many large deals over the past few years. Wall Street Journal.
In 2013, hedge fund Ken Griffin paid $129.6 million for 4 plots of land in the world, essentially the most recent record thus far.
The 2.7-acre waterfront property has been quietly bought off the marketplace for the past eight months.
A latest buyer has purchased the property, which consists of three homes – 1495 North Ocean Boulevard, 1501 North Ocean Boulevard and 108 Mediterranean Road – under an anonymous LLC.
Limbaugh bought the homes in 1998 for $3.9 million while he was married to his third wife, Martha Fitzgerald.
Kathryn, his fourth and final wife, met Limbaugh in 2004. But Limbaugh never had children. Kathryn, 46, married Limbaugh in 2010 at a lavish Hawaiian-themed wedding party headlined by Sir Elton John himself.
The complex consists of a 16,600-square-foot mansion, a 2,900-square-foot home and a 2,200-square-foot home, records show. It has a complete of 13 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms.
Features include 250 feet of ocean views, a two-story library that could be a “scale-down version” of the Biltmore Estate, North Carolina library – plus a further 4 guesthouses and a security post for twenty-four/7 security services.
There can be a swimming pool and a putting green.
According to Zev Chafets’ 2010 book An Army of One, Rush himself decorated homes inspired by Versailles – and the dining room chandelier was a duplicate of the one in New York’s Plaza Hotel.
The conservative commentator died at home in February 2021. He had been battling lung cancer for a very long time.
“I do know I’m most definitely not the Limbaugh you listened to today. Like you, I might love Rush to be behind that golden microphone at once, welcoming you to a different exceptional three hours of broadcasting,” his wife told listeners in a surprise announcement on her radio show on February 17, 2021.
“For over 32 years, Rush has loved you faithful audiences and has at all times looked forward to each show. It is with deep sadness that I need to share with you directly that our beloved Rush, my wonderful husband, passed away this morning from complications of lung cancer.”
