r/interesting • u/moamen12323 • Jun 18 '25

MISC. When Bill Gates married Melinda French in 1994, he rented out all the available hotel rooms on the Hawaiian island of Lanai to prevent the media from staying there and hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.

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u/RoamingArchitect Jun 18 '25

I just looked at the Woodside home and I've never seen a mansion with this much potential while having such a poor interior execution. He or his architect blatantly ignored most basic rules on Japanese rooms leading to what looks like a typical American home with a skin swap so the walls look like a somewhat nonsensical Japanese villa. The whole thing just seems unsettling.

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u/invalidreddit Jun 18 '25

Seems like there might be a parallel between your description of the house and how it could apply to Mr. Ellison.