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The Weekend Wealthy

If you can’t call Orange County home, you still can play here.

OC is a second (or even third or fourth) home for many rich folks. They come here for the weather, beaches, shopping and other comfy trappings.

Our wealthiest package wouldn’t be complete without a little name-dropping of some notable people with homes here, mostly for leisure.

Here’s a shortlist:

Warren Buffett

Heather Locklear, Richie Sambora

Roy Disney

Pierre Omidyar, founder, chairman,

eBay Inc.; investor, Montage Hotels

& Resorts LLC

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, chief

executive, International Lease

Finance Corp.

Jack Kemp, former U.S.

representative, Housing and Urban

Development secretary

Lodwrick Cook, former Atlantic

Richfield Co. chairman; cofounder,

former director, Global Crossing Ltd.

Joel Laub, chief executive, Las

Vegas-based Astoria Homes LLC

Edward J. Herbst, chief executive,

Herbst Gaming Inc.

Gary Primm, former chairman,

chief executive of Primadonna

Resorts Inc

Paxson Offield, president, Santa

Catalina Island Co.

Benson Ford Jr., great-grandson of

Henry Ford

Thomas L. Phillips, chairman of

Potomac, Md.-based newletter

publisher Phillips International Inc.

Jim Easton, chairman, chief

executive, Van Nuys-based Easton

Sports Inc.

Scott Blum, founder, Buy.com,

ThinkTank LLC

Steve Johnson, funding partner,

chief executive, Sage Hill Partners;

chief executive, ChoiceStream Inc.

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