The neoclassical style Warner Estate was built in the 1930s on commission from Jack Warner, former president of Warner Bros and it took about ten years to see it finished. The new home of the founder and CEO of Amazon is located on the lush hills of Beverly Hills, covers an area of three and a half hectares and boasts over 1,200 square metres of internal floor area. The pride of the property is the historic wooden floor that before arriving in California it was located in Europe and said to be the one upon which Napoleon proposed to Empress Josephine in 1796. The price, however high, represents a small part of the entrepreneur's huge assets, estimated at around 132 billion dollars, which according to the latest ranking drawn up by Forbes has returned to occupy the highest position among the richest men of the world. Bezos purchased the property from David Geffen, founder of Asylum Records and Geffen Records as well as co-founder of DreamWorks, who purchased it in 1990 for 47.5 million dollars. The amount paid out by Bezos represents an absolute record for real estate sales in Los Angeles. The record belonged in fact to Chartwell Estate located in Bel Air, purchased last December by Lachlan Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch, for 150 million dollars.