This is the guest house located on billionaire Les Wexner’s massive New Albany, Ohio estate. Lex is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Limited Brands. The Georgian style main house is said to be roughly 40,000 square feet in size. Then there’s the guest house, pictured above, which is bigger than most people’s homes! John Stefanidis designed the interiors of the Neoclassical-style guesthouse pavilion. The structure was recently remodeled by Donald Insall Associates, which expanded the porticoes and added a new entablature, columns and fretwork balustrades. Most of the rooms radiate off the two-story rotunda, which is ringed with a balcony and symmetrically arranged bookcases and is capped by a dome with trompe l’oeil coffering.

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This is the vacation home of Dick DeVos and his wife Betsy DeVos. Dick’s father is Amway co-founder Richard DeVos. The lakefront home is located at 1025 South Shore Drive in Holland, MI and situated on 4 acres on Lake Macatawa. Dick bought bought the property from his father in 2009. The old property boasted a 12,000 square foot home and a 1,100 square foot guest house. Dick and his wife tore down that down and built a 21,885 square foot Victorian mansion that boasts 3 bedrooms, 5 full and 5 half bathrooms and 3 kitchens. There is also a 6,212 square foot guest house and 708 square foot pool house. The land is valued at $3.64 million alone.

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This unfinished 24,000 square foot mega mansion sold at auction in October of last year for just $900,000. The palatial home, dubbed the “The Palace at the Haven”, is located on S Compton Lane in Brookfield, WI. It was built by real estate developer Vincent Kuttemperoor for him and his wife. He started construction in the mid-2000s, but stopped because of financial reasons. The new owner is East Indian Milwaukee-area entrepreneur Bachan Singh. It needs an estimated $1.8 million to $2.8 million in additional work to finish the interior, from walls to heating, ventilation and cooling.

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A 22-year-old Russian heiress has reportedly bought financier Sanford Weill’s Manhattan penthouse for the full asking price of $88,000,000!! This makes it the most expensive residential real estate deal in New York City history. The lavish 6,744 square foot apartment, located at 15 Central Park West, was purchased by Sanford and his wife for around $43.7 million back in 2007. They then put it on the market less than 2 months ago. The Russian heiress, Ekaterina Rybolovlev, is the daughter of billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev; who is worth an estimated $9.5 billion. Ekaterina will stay in the apartment while she studies at a university.

What’s with these really young heiresses buying outlandishly expensive properties?! If you weren’t already aware, 22-year-old Petra Eccelstone, another billionaire heiress, purchased Candy Spelling’s California mega mansion for a whopping $85 million not too long ago.

Also, Ekaterina’s father Dimitry was the buyer of Donald Trump’s Maison L’Amitie estate in Palm Beach, FL. He bought it for a jaw-dropping $95 million back in 2008.

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Banker/Financier Sanford Weill, who is the former chairman and chief executive of Citigroup, has put his Manhattan penthouse on the market for a whopping $88,000,000. Located at 15 Central Park West, Sanford and his wife Joan purchased the single floor 10-room penthouse for around $43.7 million back in 2007. It boasts 6,744 square feet of living space with 4 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, 12.5′ ceilings, formal living room with fireplace, 19 French doors throughout, Brazilian rosewood paneled library with fireplace, formal dining room, family room/den with wet bar, eat-in kitchen and wrap-around terraces.

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Billionaire Peter Sperling, who is the Senior Vice President/Director of Apollo Group and a co-founder/chairman of CallWave, Inc., has heaved his San Francisco, CA mansion back onto the market. Located at 2845 Broadway, the Neoclassical style mansion boasts a French limestone exterior with 19th century Italian tiled roof. The main house boasts 17,000 square feet of living space and the guest house boasts 6,000 square feet of living space. A garden separates the two of them. The mansion first came onto the market back in 2006 with a hefty $65,000,000 asking price. It was last on the market a few months ago with an asking price of $47,000,000. It is now listed at $38,500,000. The home is 70% completed.

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