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Billionaire Nicolas Berggruen Pays $22.5 Million for Neighboring Property
James McClain Three years after he paid nearly $41 million for the legendary Edie Goetz estate in L.A.’s exclusive Holmby Hills, billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen has added another trophy feather to his real estate cap by acquiring the 2.2-acre property next door.As was first reported by The Real Deal, Paris-born Berggruen is reuniting the two separate parcels into one contiguous 4.4-acre compound, the way they were previously, back when the properties were owned by prominent businessman Gary L. Wilson and his former wife Barbera Hale Thornhill, Trump’s nominee for U.S.