The $78 million Hawaii estate of Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos made another HUGE acquisition today. He endured a highly publicized divorce, an extortion case involving the National Enquirer, the humiliation of resigning as CEO of Amazon, and the shame of only being the second-richest person in the world due to Elon Musk, but he continues to make news for his high-profile purchases. He has already completed some of the largest real estate transactions in history this year. He has already made sizable purchases in Beverly Hills, Washington, D.C., and New York City. Some of them rank among the biggest ever. He also spent astronomical sums of money on a space mission that created a trend, a massive yacht that rivals the one from The Wolf of Wall Street, and possibly the most extravagant clock ever made. Well, you can now add a sizable estate on Maui to this purchase. On a piece of land that is so mysterious that you nearly need a helicopter to get a decent look at it, he and his girlfriend completed the largest purchase in Maui history. He had to spend a ton of cash behind the scenes to smooth things over in the very competitive Hawaiian property market in order to close this sale. Seriously, every famous person owns property on one of the islands, including Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, the Obamas, Beyonce, and Jay-Z. Owning a piece of beachfront property is more in style than ever, but the cost has skyrocketed as a result.
How much money did Bezos spend on his tropical island haven? Let's investigate!