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Where Do The Richest Americans Live?

Have you checked the newest “Forbes 400: The Full List of The Richest People in
America” yet?

Surprise, Bill Gates, with a net worth of $81 billion, is ranked No. 1 for the 23rd year
running. Meanwhile, his friend Warren Buffett fell to third place for the first time in 15
years with a net worth of $65.5 billion.

Thanks to soaring stock prices of hot tech firms, CEOs at the helm of those companies seem
to have been accumulating wealth at a much faster pace than others. Amazon.com CEO Jeff
Bezos gained $20 billion to boost his net worth to $67 billion, making him the second-
richest person in the U.S.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg jumped into fourth place, his highest rank ever, with a net
worth of $55.5 billion. However, Oracle founder Larry Ellison landed at No. 5 for the first
time since 2007. His net worth is $49.3 billion.

Standing on the No. 6 spot is former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, CEO of
the eponymous firm Bloomberg L.P., who has a net worth of $45 billion.
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These six richest multi-billionaires have a combined $363.3 billion at their withdrawal, most
of which is still held as stakes in the companies they founded. However, part of their fortune
is vested in real estate. Mr. Gates, for one, owns a Washington mansion worth about $170
million, several horse ranches across the U.S. and shares in some luxury hotel chains
through his private investment firm, Cascade.

Here, take a look at the residences the six richest moguls call home:

1. Bill Gates
Worth: $81 billion
Home: Medina, Washington

Mr. Gates, 60, spends most of his time at his 66,000-square-foot Medina, Washington,
mansion, nicknamed Xanadu 2.0 after the title character’s estate in Citizen Kane. The
mansion overlooks Lake Washington. It took Mr. Gates seven years and $63.2 million to
build this house, which is filled with lots of high-tech features. He purchased the lot for $2
million in 1988, but it’s now worth an estimated $170 million, according to public records.

2. Jeff Bezos
Worth: $67 billion
Home: Medina, Washington

Mr. Bezos, 52, in the process of building his e-commerce empire, scooped up a vast amount
of real properties over the years, earning him the No. 26 spot on The Land Report’s list of
America’s largest landowners last year. In terms of residences, he has a 165,000-acre ranch
in West Texas, a waterfront house in Washington state, three linked apartments in
Manhattan’s Century Tower, and a 12,000-square-foot Beverly Hills estate that boasts Tom
Cruise as a neighbor, according to Forbes.

His home at Medina, Washington, close to Amazon’s headquarters, boasts 5.35 acres and
about 29,000 square-foot of living space. Aside from the main home, there’s also a
caretaker’s cottage and a 4,500-square-foot boathouse on Lake Washington.

3. Warren Buffett
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Worth: $65.5 billion
Home: Omaha, Nebraska

Although the shrewdest investor on earth holds multiple real estate investments, Mr.
Buffett, 86, is known for living humbly.

His home sits on a corner in Omaha, Nebraska, which he bought in 1958 for $31,500. Mr.
Buffett has lived there ever since. The house, originally built in 1921, underwent several
expansions to make it a cozy and comfortable 6,500-square-foot home for the man who has
a net worth of over $65.5 billion.

4. Mark Zuckerberg
Worth: $55.5 billion
Home: Palo Alto, California

The youngest richest entrepreneur docks most of his wealth in schools, health and other
philanthropies. His real estate portfolio include his home in Palo Alto and a 9.9-million
pied-a-terre near Dolores Park in San Francisco.

Mr. Zuckerberg, 32, purchased his first Craftsman-style 5,000-square-foot home in Palo
Alto in 2011 for $7 million. He snapped up four of the houses surrounding his home in the
following years for about $43.8 million to better keep his privacy. But his plan to tear down
and rebuild those four homes has been stalled.

5. Larry Ellison
Worth: $49.3 billion
Home: Woodside, California

Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison, 72, has an extensive real estate portfolio. He has
bought up large parts of whole neighborhoods in Malibu and around Lake Tahoe. He owns a
$70-million Beechwood Mansion in Newport, Rhode Island; a garden villa in Kyoto, Japan;
and 98% of the land of Lanai, Hawaii’s sixth-largest island, which he purchased in 2012 for
$500 million, according to published reports.
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His estate in Woodside, California, with an estimated value of $110 million, is modeled
after 16th-century Japanese architecture, complete with a man-made 2.3-acre lake.

6. Michael Bloomberg
Worth: $45 billion
Home: Manhattan, New York

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 74, has more than a dozen of properties
worldwide. He spends most of his time at his Upper Estate Side townhouse, but he also
owns estates in the Hamptons in New York, as well as in London, Bermuda, Colorado and
Florida.

Mr. Bloomberg’s townhouse, located at 17 East 79th St., spans five stories with a limestone
exterior. During his three terms as mayor, Mr. Bloomberg lived in the townhouse instead of
Gracie Mansion. However, he apparently has a plan to turn it into a mega-mansion. Since
1989, he has been gradually buying up units at 19 East 79th St., the townhouse co-op that’s
right next door to his current residence. Out of the six units in the white 1880 Greek-revival-
style building, Bloomberg now owns five of them, according to The New York Observer.

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Tammy Duckworth: The mum making history in the US Senate

Tammy Duckworth is used to being a trailblazer.

A double amputee, she was the first disabled woman elected to the US Congress.

Born in Bangkok to a Thai mother and American father, she was also among the first Asian-
American women in Congress.

And now, as confirmed in a gleeful tweet this week, she will be the first woman to have a
baby while serving in the US Senate.

It was "about damn time", the 49-year-old said. "I can't believe it took until 2018."

On the day Donald Trump defied the odds to defeat Hillary Clinton in November 2016,
Tammy Duckworth made her own journey - soundly defeating the Republican incumbent to
become the junior senator for Illinois, the position held by Barack Obama when he won the
presidency.
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Her election came four days shy of the anniversary of the event that shaped her later life.

"I'm here because of the miracles that occurred 12 years ago this Saturday - above and in a
dusty field in Iraq," she said in her victory speech.

Among the people she thanked were her former military comrades: the men who saved her
life after the helicopter she was co-piloting over Iraq was struck by a rocket-propelled
grenade.

You may find some of the following details distressing

Duckworth was a captain with the Illinois National Guard when she was called up to serve
in Iraq. It was a war she disagreed with, but she fully accepted the responsibility to go there
and fight.

She did not have to go to Iraq. She was no longer in charge of her former unit when they
were called to serve, but she asked to go with them.

"You don't want anyone to face danger and you not face the same danger," she told an
episode of The Axe Files podcast in December 2016. "You have to face the same risk."

After a day of routine missions in November 2004, she and her crew were asked to pick up
some soldiers from Taji, about 20 miles north of Baghdad.

When they got there, the soldiers had already left. The crew decided to return to their base
in Balad, about 30 miles further north, and Duckworth handed control of the Black Hawk
helicopter to her co-pilot Dan Milberg.

During the journey, as they flew low over palm trees to avoid detection, she heard the "tap,
tap, tap" of gunfire against the helicopter.

She leaned forward to get the GPS co-ordinates to report where the helicopter had been
shot.
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"Right then, bam, the fireball happened in my lap with an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade]
going off," she told The Axe Files.

"It took off most of the back of my right arm because I had that forward. It blew off my
right leg, it basically evaporated.

"My left leg was kicked up into an instrument. The force of that sheared it almost off, it was
hanging on a little bit."

Duckworth drifted in and out of consciousness. Every time she became conscious again, she
would try to operate the pedals to control the helicopter, but struggled to understand why
she couldn't. She did not realise she no longer had feet.

Dan Milberg landed the helicopter and carried Duckworth out. Her crew had assumed she
was dead, but by nevertheless moving her quickly from the helicopter to get aid, they saved
her life.

Duckworth woke up about 11 days later, in pain and angry. She had lost both legs and most
of the use of her right arm.

In later years, she adapted a playful attitude to her amputation - wearing a T-shirt saying
"Dude, where's my leg?" and addressing the Democratic National Convention with one
prosthetic leg painted in camouflage, the other in the American flag.

In hospital though, one of her first thoughts was revenge against her attacker. "I wanted to
hunt him down," she told The Axe Files.

In the end she underwent countless operations and spent 13 months in hospital, much of it at
the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington DC.

The hospital, packed with soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, became what she called
"an amputee petting zoo" for politicians seeking photo opportunities.
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It was perhaps inevitable that Duckworth had ended up joining the military, even if she had
initially resisted, having hoped to join the diplomatic service instead.

Generations of her family had served in the military, going as far back as the American
Revolution. Her father Frank fought in World War Two and the Vietnam War.

A fierce patriot, Frank Duckworth was a Marine and served as a signal officer in Vietnam.
But he found himself confronted and spat at when he returned to the US in between tours as
the movement against the Vietnam War gathered strength.

He preferred to stay in south-east Asia in between tours, and met Lamai Sompornpairin,
who had grown up sewing hats in a Thai factory and was then working in her parents'
grocery shop.

The couple, with baby Tammy in tow, stayed in the region after the war while Frank worked
for the UN Development Programme and different corporations. Tammy spoke nothing but
Thai until she was eight years old.

Her experiences with conflict began at a young age, as the Marxist Khmer Rouge regime
took power in Cambodia.

She has said some of her earliest childhood memories are of being in Phnom Penh, watching
bombs going off. She said her parents told her to think of them as fireworks, so she would
not be scared.

Read more: Who were the Khmer Rouge?

The latter period of her time in Asia, living in Indonesia and Singapore, gave her pride in
being American, and in seeing how people abroad viewed her country.

Yet the Duckworths later fell on hard times as Frank Duckworth lost his job. Despite his
reluctance to return to a country he felt had rejected him, he had no choice but to go back to
the US.
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At several points, Tammy Duckworth's story echoes that of President Obama, the man who
called her "a tough lady, but with a big heart" as she ran for his old Senate seat.

Both have acknowledged how their mixed-race origins helped form their identities. Both
grew up in Indonesia at around the same time, and both left Asia to live in Hawaii.

Ladies first: How US politics got left behind

While Duckworth said the move to a multicultural state like Hawaii was the perfect way for
her to assimilate into US life, it was a hard transition for her father.

The family depended on food stamps to survive. In 2013, she reflected on her teenage years
while speaking in Congress against possible cuts to food stamps. "They were there for me,
so I could worry about school and not about my empty stomach."

Often, Duckworth and her brother Thomas could eat only if their father had found enough
coins left in telephone kiosks. When she found work after school, she was the only member
of her family to have a job.

Her father, who died in 2005, went on to find work at a chicken factory, and Duckworth was
able through grants and loans to make her way to three universities.

In the end, it was her classmates who convinced her that she could achieve her eventual aim
of being an ambassador by joining the military first.

"What I didn't expect was to fall in love with the camaraderie and sense of purpose that the
military instills in you," Duckworth wrote in Politico in 2015.

"The thing is, when we were exhausted and miserable, my fellow cadets and I were
exhausted and miserable together."

Among the other cadets was her future husband, Bryan Bowlsbey. It wasn't immediately
obvious the two were destined for marriage.
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"He made a comment that I felt was derogatory about the role of women in the Army," she
told the C-Span news network in 2005, "but he came over and apologised very nicely and
then helped me clean my M16."

It would be far from the last time Duckworth would face a derogatory comment, but it
would be the only time she would marry the man who made it.

Duckworth's political career took off as her rehabilitation from her injuries was continuing.

It was an invitation by Illinois Democrat senator Dick Durbin to attend the 2005 State of the
Union address that first ignited her interest.

Duckworth had already become an unofficial adviser to younger veterans within Walter
Reed hospital, leading Mr Durbin to suggest she should consider running for office.

She ran as a candidate for Congress in Illinois in 2006, barely two years after the attack in
Iraq.

But she lost the race to Republican Peter Roskam by only 5,000 votes. "I sat in a bathtub
and cried for three days," she said.

Will Trump's election lead to more women in politics?

Over the following years, she continued her duties with the National Guard and as director
of the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs, where she launched a hotline for suicidal
veterans and helped improve access to healthcare payments and work for veterans.

In 2008, newly elected President Obama appointed her as an assistant secretary to the
federal Department of Veterans' Affairs.

Then in 2012, she ran for Congress again in another Illinois district - this time against an
opponent who openly disparaged her military record.

Joe Walsh was hardly the most popular candidate when he ran against Duckworth in Illinois'
eighth district.
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When the Republican incumbent was sued by his ex-wife over missed child support
payments, and when he shouted at a constituent, his chances became even slimmer.

Then when he attacked the service carried out by Duckworth, by this point a recipient of the
Purple Heart medal for those injured in service, his fate was perhaps sealed.

"I'm running against a woman who, my God, that's all she talks about," he said at a town
hall meeting. "Our true heroes, it's the last thing in the world they talk about."

Duckworth ended up winning 54.7% of the vote, compared with Walsh's 45.3%.

She held on the seat two years later. A month later, at the age of 46 and after several
unsuccessful courses of IVF treatment, she gave birth to her first child, Abigail.

Duckworth often reflects back on the day her helicopter was struck, and acknowledges how
her time in the military has helped shape the politician she is today.

"That day, and so many others when I served, illustrated the two most important lessons the
military taught me," she wrote in Politico magazine. "Never leave anyone behind - not on
the battlefield and not in our country. And never put a service member in harm's way
without understanding the cost."

But as Duckworth's first race for the Senate was entering its final stretch in October 2016,
the Chicago Tribune pointed out that her much-vaunted record on helping veterans had been
mixed.

After a decade in public service, the newspaper said, "several" of her initiatives to help
Illinois veterans "fell flat", her post in the federal veterans' affairs body "mostly focused on
public relations" and her two terms in Congress were "marked by only a few legislative
successes".
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Duckworth has defended her record, but even one of her headline pieces of policy - a bill
she sponsored requiring airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding mothers - has yet to
become law.

As a senator, her record will now face even more scrutiny. She reached the Senate after
another bruising election campaign in 2016, one that saw her opponent Mark Kirk belittle
her family's military history.

She started her time as a senator optimistically, expressing hope that she and fellow
Democrats could work with President Trump.

"I am going to start off assuming that he loves this country as much as I love this country,"
she told The Axe Files podcast just before taking office. "If you start off from that point, I
think you can learn to work with anyone."

It has not worked out that way.

Instead, Duckworth has positioned herself as one of the most persistent and vocal critics of
the president, on issues relating to the military and immigration in particular.

Last weekend, as Trump attacked Democrats for not helping pass a funding bill that he said
was "holding our military hostage", Duckworth attacked him from the Senate floor - noting
how he had repeatedly avoided service in Vietnam because of a reported bone spur in his
foot.

"I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger," she
said.
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"And I have a message for Cadet Bone Spurs: If you cared about our military, you'd stop
baiting Kim Jong-un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops and millions of
innocent civilians in danger."

Duckworth has been especially critical of Trump over North Korea, warning last month that
he and the defence community were gearing up for war.

Amid her criticism of the president, the rumblings of a Tammy Duckworth run for the
Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential race have already started.

While she has not acknowledged any interest in running - at least not yet - Duckworth is
surely aware that one significant political 'first' has still not been achieved: the first female
president.

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