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Billionaire Ken Griffin just bought a $238 million penthouse — and it's the most expensive house ever sold in the US
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Ken Griffin just paid $238 million for a New York City penthouse, breaking the record for the most expensive home ever sold in the US, The Wall Street Journal reported. The transaction smashed the current record, set in in 2014 when another hedge-fund manager, Barry Rosenstein, bought a Hamptons home for $137 million, by more than $100 million. Griffin's new Manhattan penthouse is a massive 23,000-square-foot residence that encompasses floors 50 through 53 at 220 Central Park South, a skyscraper designed by Robert A.M. Stern that's still under construction. The asking price was $250 ... (full story)