Gallery: Larry Ellison's Private Island Makes Mel Gibson Look Small
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*Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has paid about $500 million for (almost all of) Lanai, a 140-square-mile Hawaiian island, pictured here in a satellite photo (Image: Google Earth)*
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*In 2005, Hollywood actor Mel Gibson paid $15 million for the roughly 9-square-mile Mago Island, part of the Fuji island chain. Ellison's is bigger. And it costs more. (Image: Google Earth)*
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*Sandy Cay -- the small island in the center of this photo of the British Virgin Islands -- was owned by Laurance Rockefeller, scion of the John Rockefeller family. (Image: NASA/USGS)*
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*Sir David Rowat Barclay and Sir Frederick Hugh Barclay, the twin behemoths of the British financial world, are the owners of Brecqhou, an island in the English channel. (Image: WikiCommons)*
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*Dean Kamen - inventor of the Segway - calls his island off the coast of Connecticut "The Kingdom of North Dumpling." (Image: WikiCommons)*
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*Sir Richard Branson owns three islands, including Necker Island, part of the British Virgin Islands. (Image: WikiCommons)*
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*Bell's Island in the Bahamas was owned by Britain's Baron Rothschild. (Image: Screenshot/Google Earth)*
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*Shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy on Skorpios, his private island off the coast of Greece, seen here in the distance. (Image: gichristof/Flickr)*
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*Charles Lindbergh bought Île Illiec, off the coast of France, in 1938, in the wake of his son's murder at the hands of kidnappers. (Image: Screenshot/Google Maps)*
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*Silver screen legend Marlon Brando was godfather of Tetiaroa, an island in French Polynesia. (Image: Wikicommons)*
