This spring an estate on east Hampton’s tony Further Lane sold to hedge fund manager Barry Rosenstein for $147 million— making it the most expensive home ever sold in America. Those nine digits buy 18 acres with oceanfront dunes, a seaside mansion, a water lily pond and a history dotted with billionaires, politicians and corporate chieftains dating back to the 17th century.
(This story appears in the 30 November, -0001 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)