Amazon's Bezos buys US capital home for US$23m

Washington

AMAZON founder Jeff Bezos will have a place to hang his hat in the US capital, with the purchase of what may be the city's largest private residence, for US$23 million. The Bezos-owned Washington Post reported on Thursday that the tech billionaire was behind the anonymous purchase of the former Textile Museum, a structure of 27,000 square feet with a 7,000 square foot formal garden.

Mr Bezos, who plans to use the home as a pied-a-terre when visiting from Amazon's West Coast headquarters, will be in the posh Kalorama district, an enclave that will include, within a five-block area, not just Barack and Michelle Obama but also Ivanka Trump, daughter of US President-elect Donald Trump, and her husband Jared Kushner.