The second most expensive purchase was made by Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle, who bought Lanai Island in Hawaii in 2012 for US $ 500 million. According to the Wealth-X report, yachts are the most common purchase among billionaires: they are owned by 80% of super-rich people.
It is worth recalling that one of the most expensive and largest yachts in the world is owned by the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich: the 553-foot Eclipse super vessel costs approximately US $ 485 million. Vodka tycoon Yuri Shefler also owns the Serene superyacht worth US $ 300 million. In turn, the famous industrialist Andrey Melnichenko bought the yacht for US $ 323 million, which also allowed him to enter the top five owners of the most luxurious floating palaces.
