Bill Gates says he will never downsize from his $130 million mansion

Bill Gates poured $63 million and seven years of renovations into his $130 million megahome.

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00:00Bill Gates says he has no plans to downsize from his $130 million mansion.

00:05The billionaire bought the Lake Washington home in 1988 for just $2 million.

00:10Nicknamed Xanadu 2.0, the 66,000 square foot mansion has six kitchens,

00:1524 bathrooms, a trampoline room, indoor pools, sports courts, a sauna, and oddly just seven

00:21bedrooms. Gates recently told the Times that while the property is gigantic, he just can't part with

00:26it, even as his fellow empty-nester siblings downsize from their homes. The Microsoft founder

00:32poured $63 million in seven years of renovations into the mansion to make sure everything was just

00:38right. But in a 2008 interview with Fortune, his ex-wife Melinda said the house was a bachelor's

00:43dream and a bride's nightmare.