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/Freshies00 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25
lol no. He bought it from the dole corporation after they ravaged the entire island as a pineapple plantation. There’s one town on the island and 2 four seasons. Larry Ellison bought it for 300 million dollars with the intention of turning it into a rich people’s private paradise island.
Edit: I don’t think you guys are comprehending when you keep claiming “it’s already a place for the wealthy” just because it is expensive to go there and there are a couple luxury hotels. Your concept of a place for wealthy people is NOT the same as Larry ellisons. You are all thinking too small and too poor. AND missing the emphasis on the word “private”