Here's a real estate story that sums up the new celebrity of our times: According to Curbed LA, Markus Notch Persson, creator of the wildly popular interactive computer game Minecraft, recently outbid Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles for what is the most expensive single-family home sale in Beverly Hills history.
The house itself is a kind of celebrity, making news in August when it hit the market at $85M. The only normal part of its listing write up was this detail: 8 bedrooms. From there, the home's description verges into a kind of fun-house excess: Each of the 15 bathrooms, for instance, is outfitted with Toto Neorest toilets at a price of $5,600 each. From there, the opulence (or what stands in for opulence these days) ramps up to ridiculous: a candy room with M&M tower; a car showroom; bars fully decked with high-end vodka and/or tequila; a dramatic cliff's-edge pool that you reach by stepping out through a 54-foot glass door; a home theater; a lavishly stocked wine cellar; a gym; and an 18-foot onyx dining room table embellished with Roberto Cavalli place settings valued at $3,700 each.
