The buyer who bought Rush Limbaugh’s Palm Beach estate for a record $155 million has been revealed as billionaire William Lauder, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Lauder, 62, is the manager chairman of the powerful cosmetics brand The Estée Lauder Companies, with a net price of $3.5 billion. Forbes.
The Post contacted Lauder’s company for comment.
In February 2021, Limbaugh died at home on the age of 70 after battling lung cancer.
The Post reported this week that a sprawling 2.7-acre property comprising three homes – 1495 North Ocean Boulevard, 1501 North Ocean Boulevard and 108 Mediterranean Road – was purchased with an anonymous LLC.
The conservative commentator’s widow and fourth wife, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, sold the property after eight months of off-market shopping.
The radio talk show host bought the complex in 1998 for $3.9 million. At the time, he was still married to his third wife, Martha Fitzgerald, but they divorced in 2004.
Several years later, in 2010, Limbaugh married Kathryn in a Hawaiian-themed ceremony on the Palm Beach estate.
Altogether, the estate has 250 feet of ocean frontage, a two-story library described as “a scaled-down version” of the Biltmore Estate Library in North Carolina, a swimming pool, a putting green, and a 24-hour Security Watchtower.
The sale is a record for Palm Beach. In 2013, Ken Griffin, a hedge fund, paid $129.6 million for 4 lots.
Lauder recently sold two lots in the identical neighborhood for a complete of $200 million Journal.
He purchased one in 2020 for roughly $25.4 million and one other a 12 months later for an undisclosed amount. There were houses on each plots that had been demolished.
Lauder also owns an apartment in New York on Park Avenue.
Records show that the Limbaugh estate consists of a 16,600-square-foot mansion, a 2,900-square-foot home, and a 2,200-square-foot home, with 13 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms combined. There are also 4 additional guesthouses.
The houses were decorated by Limbaugh himself, in line with Zev Chafets’ 2010 biography “An Army of One”.
It was said that he was inspired by the design of the Palace of Versailles and the Plaza Hotel in New York.
Limbaugh hosted his longtime radio show throughout his diagnosis.
When he died in 2021, Kathryn announced his death on her show.
“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 mic without delay, welcoming you to a different exceptional three hours of broadcasting,” she told listeners.
“For over 32 years, Rush has loved you faithful audience and all the time looks 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.”
