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Paul Allen Gets $25 M. Windows on UES

Perhaps Paul Allen was missing some of that West Coast sun. The co-founder of Microsoft just purchased the  penthouse at 4 East 66th Street, which comes with a giant roof terrace where he can catch some rays.

Mr. Allen paid a whopping $25 million for the home. It appears he will be expanding like a mid-90′s Microsoft, as Mr. Allen already owns the 11th floor apartment at the tony Fifth Avenue co-op, which he reportedly purchased for $13.5 million in 1996. Read More

Litigation

Paul Allen Sues Just About Everyone

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, is apparently mad as hell at the rest of the Internet. His Interval licensing has laid a lawsuit smackdown on an alphabet soup of companies, including but not limited to Apple, Google, Facebook, AOL, eBay, Yahoo–and so on. Allen and Interval, a developer of computer tech, say the legal actions Read More

Crash the Party, Break the Law

A few years ago, I was at a kicking Grammy Awards party in a Los Angeles mansion hosted by music company EMI, which was then in the midst of a ditched merger dance with Warner Music. As a journalist covering the merger, I was on the List, and my privileged status granted me Read More