America's second-richest woman has spent more than $108 million acquiring properties on Southampton's Meadow Lane and is now renovating them into a family compound for her three children, all while rarely appearing in public. Julia Koch, the widow of industrialist David Koch and the controller of an estimated $81.2 billion fortune, purchased a 22,000-square-foot Tudor-style […] The post Julia Koch quietly assembles a Hamptons compound on Billionaire Lane appeared first on American Almanac .
America's second-richest woman has spent more than $108 million acquiring properties on Southampton's Meadow Lane and is now renovating them into a family compound for her three children, all while rarely appearing in public. Julia Koch, the widow of industrialist David Koch and the controller of an estimated $81.2 billion fortune, purchased a 22,000-square-foot Tudor-style home on Meadow Lane in 2022 for $75 million. The property sits on 500 feet of ocean-front beach and holds 15 bedrooms. A neighbor told Page Six at the time that the house "had fallen into a bit of a state of disrepair" and that Koch's team was "in the very early stages of exploring different options [for restoration], and that might be years away." Years later, the…Open
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