Gates married his wife Melissa on Lanai six years ago, and he rented the entire island for the party.
"There is a better chance of people flapping their arms and flying from Lanai to Maui, " he told The Associated Press.
Larry Ellison, America's third richest man, can now add "owns 98% of Hawaiian island of Lanai" to his long list of accomplishments.
The mayor of Lanai has described Mr Murdock as a caring landowner.
Northeasterners like crown molding and wainscoting, while Florida buyers often spring for a screened-in lanai and a bathroom specifically for the pool area.
To that end, the state is moving forward with an innovative and ambitious plan to connect the islands via undersea cable, starting with Oahu, Maui, Molokai and Lanai.
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He lost his first wife, Pat, to cancer in 2009, but he got married again, to the former Kathleen Petrie, last summer before 75 basketball coaches and their wives on the Hawaiian island of Lanai.
The Hawaiian Islands has plenty of killer golf course resorts that are worth the long flight, such as Princeville on Kauai, Manele Bay on Lanai and Mauna Kea on the Big Island all with holiday home choices.
Murdoch, a billionaire and high school dropout, is also the chairman of Dole Food dol (nyse: dol - news - people), which spun off CCS in 1992 to turn Lanai into a resort after its pineapple plantations there shut down.
All of the ground floor rooms and villas feature an outdoor lava rock shower located just around the corner from the indoor bathroom. (Second-floor rooms have bigger lanais and better views of the secluded Kona-Kohala coast, since they are higher up.) Move from the bathroom to the slate stepping-stones on your private lanai for a blissful outdoor rain shower.
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