Who is the billionaire that owns Hawaii?

Jul 28·This Is Our Hawai?i The current owner of the island is Larry Ellison, the billionaire who co-founded the software giant Oracle Corp.



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Billionaire Larry Ellison owns an island in Hawaii. 98 per cent of the island of Lanai is his property.

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Attracted by the dreamy archipelago's heart-stopping natural beauty, year-round balmy weather, reassuring privacy and seclusion – plus a whole lot more besides – North America's uber-rich have been flocking to this tropical paradise in their droves, with everyone from Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg to Oprah Winfrey and ...

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The State of Hawaii and the federal government own most of the land in Hawaii.

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Oprah Winfrey and Jeff Bezos are among those who have part-time homes on the island. The wildfires that have killed at least 55 in Maui are burning on an island that also contains the part-time homes of billionaires, including Oprah Winfrey, Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos.

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But there's one foreign billionaire landowner that has been completely absent for more than a decade: the owners of Molokai Ranch. The ranch's landholdings encompass one-third of the entire island of Molokai. It's owned by billionaire investment firm Guoco Group, based out of Hong Kong.

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Listed below are five of the richest people in Hawai?i and how they made their fortunes.
  • 1) Pierre Omidyar. Pierre Omidyar, the founder and chairman of eBay, lives in Honolulu and has a net worth of approximately $11.4 billion. ...
  • 2) Jay Shidler. ...
  • 3) Blair Parry-Okeden. ...
  • 4) Steve Case. ...
  • 5) Larry Ellison.


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Oprah Winfrey has been a part-time resident of the Hawaiian island of Maui since 2004 when she purchased around 100 acres in its upcountry region. Since then, she's amassed approximately 1,000 acres of land across the island, local news outlet KITV4 reported, and appears to have developed a strong connection to Maui.

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Over the past year, she has reportedly purchased four parcels of land, totaling 870 acres, for $6.6 million. In March 2023, Maui Now reported that Winfrey spent $6.6 million on 870 acres of land in Kula.

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Bezos, like other billionaires, owns property in Hawaii. In 2021, he purchased a 14-acre property in La Perouse Bay, in southern Maui. He joins a growing number of celebrities who have pledged to help the island, including Oprah Winfrey and Jason Momoa.

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Technology billionaire Larry Ellison has seen off Bill Gates to snap up a share of Hawaiian island Lanai.

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  • Top 1% income threshold:$453,471.
  • Top 5% income threshold:$212,622.


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Non-residents are only allowed to buy property with government permits in French Polynesia and Fiji, although there are no restrictions in Hawaii. Elsewhere land can only be bought by those with personal links to the area and islands are therefore normally available only on a leasehold basis and to residents.

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Zuckerberg and wife, Priscilla Chan, paid $17 million last month for 110 acres of agricultural land on Kauai, bringing their total Hawaii property holdings to more than 1,400 acres, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.

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