As if a collection of private planes, fancy cars, yachts and a slew of other outrageously expensive toys didn’t satisfy Larry Ellison’s every whim, the Oracle co-founder recently purchased the island of Lanai in Hawaii. Ellison, the sixth wealthiest person in the world, bought 98 percent of the island from billionaire David Murdock for an undisclosed price and now owns nearly every single money-maker on Lanai, from five-star hotels and championship golf courses to 88,000 acres of pineapple fields and a solar farm. The biggest question is whether the 2010 America’s Cup and yachting enthusiast will turn the island into a sailing hub. For now, he has yet to appear in public on the island or comment on his purchase, presumably because he is sipping a piña colada under a palm tree somewhere along the 50 miles of beaches he now owns.
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